Pbsaurus (he/him/pb/they)
@pbsaurus.bsky.social
Unencumbered by neurotypical brain development
Aging GenX deviant nerd punk dad of 12th grader
Loving husband
Perspicacious Equus Asinus
Aging GenX deviant nerd punk dad of 12th grader
Loving husband
Perspicacious Equus Asinus
Pinned
I’m Autistic, And Believe Me, It’s A Lot Better Than Measles. (Vaccines don’t cause autism. But even if they did, is being like me really a fate worse than death?) A thread drawn from @fodderfigure.bsky.social's recent TPGA article:
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/im-a... #VaccinesSaveLives 1/
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/im-a... #VaccinesSaveLives 1/
I’m Autistic, And Believe Me, It’s A Lot Better Than Measles — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Vaccines like the MMR (measles, mumps & rubella) don’t cause autism. But even if they did, is being like me really a fate worse than death?
thinkingautismguide.com
A great 36 post thread on vaccines, autism, that horrible pathologizing self serving anti-autistic people org called Autism Speaks. Read the whole thing if you know an autistic person.
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The EPA just approved new "forever chemical" pesticides for use on food like lettuce, broccoli, and potatoes.
They're creating new pathways for long lasting & potentially harmful PFAS to get into our food & environment.
THIS is how they're going to Make America Healthy Again?
They're creating new pathways for long lasting & potentially harmful PFAS to get into our food & environment.
THIS is how they're going to Make America Healthy Again?
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The EPA just approved new "forever chemical" pesticides for use on food like lettuce, broccoli, and potatoes.
They're creating new pathways for long lasting & potentially harmful PFAS to get into our food & environment.
THIS is how they're going to Make America Healthy Again?
They're creating new pathways for long lasting & potentially harmful PFAS to get into our food & environment.
THIS is how they're going to Make America Healthy Again?
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Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Reporters & @nytimes.com, do better. Talk to folks like @fidgetsandfries.bsky.social, @jessdiaryofamom.bsky.social, @cosmickarmic.bsky.social, @lollardfish.bsky.social, @autisticenough.bsky.social who love and support their high-support autistic kids, and don't pretend their lives are pony parties.
The @nytimes.com has a new article on " #ProfoundAutism," featuring the same grievance parents they always feature—and minimal autistic input. Pls counter with our explanation of why autistic kids deserve better representation than parents who resent them.
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/11/grie...
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/11/grie...
Grievance-Based Parent Organizations Are Autism's MAGA Movement — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Horrified by the misinformation peddled by MAGA truthers? You should be just as concerned about grievance-based autism parent orgs.
thinkingautismguide.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reporters & @nytimes.com, do better. Talk to folks like @fidgetsandfries.bsky.social, @jessdiaryofamom.bsky.social, @cosmickarmic.bsky.social, @lollardfish.bsky.social, @autisticenough.bsky.social who love and support their high-support autistic kids, and don't pretend their lives are pony parties.
Hell, even I might even chip in a few quid for that.
“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”
October 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Hell, even I might even chip in a few quid for that.
Thanks RFK Jr. and by thanks I mean GFY you eugenecist bastard.
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.
The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.
buff.ly/8epl2QS
The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.
buff.ly/8epl2QS
Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thanks RFK Jr. and by thanks I mean GFY you eugenecist bastard.
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RFK Jr. just hired Mark Blaxill, one of the original anti-vaxxers, to work for the CDC. via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...
Mark Blaxill helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him at CDC.
Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured.
www.msnbc.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
RFK Jr. just hired Mark Blaxill, one of the original anti-vaxxers, to work for the CDC. via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...
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"To all the teachers, I would like to say—believe in us! Please don’t assess [autistic] potential based entirely on our outward behavior or what we may not be able to say verbally. There is a lot more under the surface than you might initially see" -Sid Ramaswamy, at TPGA:
tinyurl.com/SidRamaswamy
tinyurl.com/SidRamaswamy
September 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"To all the teachers, I would like to say—believe in us! Please don’t assess [autistic] potential based entirely on our outward behavior or what we may not be able to say verbally. There is a lot more under the surface than you might initially see" -Sid Ramaswamy, at TPGA:
tinyurl.com/SidRamaswamy
tinyurl.com/SidRamaswamy
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Ari Ne'eman's Keynote at Stanford Neurodiversity Summit: Operationalizing Neurodiversity
What are some of the things we can do to make very concrete, measurable & specific changes in autism research and service provision, to better recover the true meaning of #neurodiversity?
youtu.be/jKFM6D_MnmI
What are some of the things we can do to make very concrete, measurable & specific changes in autism research and service provision, to better recover the true meaning of #neurodiversity?
youtu.be/jKFM6D_MnmI
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Ari Ne'eman's Keynote at Stanford Neurodiversity Summit: Operationalizing Neurodiversity
What are some of the things we can do to make very concrete, measurable & specific changes in autism research and service provision, to better recover the true meaning of #neurodiversity?
youtu.be/jKFM6D_MnmI
What are some of the things we can do to make very concrete, measurable & specific changes in autism research and service provision, to better recover the true meaning of #neurodiversity?
youtu.be/jKFM6D_MnmI
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We started @thinkingautism.com in 2010 specifically to counter anti-vax grifters and pseudoscience zealots like Blaxill. By 2016, they'd dropped off the autism radar—considered ridiculous, when not entirely forgotten. And now RFK the lesser is resurrecting the rotten lot of them. We will all suffer.
RFK Jr. just hired Mark Blaxill, one of the original anti-vaxxers, to work for the CDC. via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...
Mark Blaxill helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him at CDC.
Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured.
www.msnbc.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
We started @thinkingautism.com in 2010 specifically to counter anti-vax grifters and pseudoscience zealots like Blaxill. By 2016, they'd dropped off the autism radar—considered ridiculous, when not entirely forgotten. And now RFK the lesser is resurrecting the rotten lot of them. We will all suffer.
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TODAY: Join experts from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute as they address urgent questions raised by recent national discussions on autism, like Tylenol, vaccines, and leucovorin, include Q&A. Rigorous science is more critical now than ever. Online only, 5PM ET/2 PM PT:
drexel.edu/dornsife/new...
drexel.edu/dornsife/new...
Virtual Panel on Autism: Science and Facts in a Time of Confusion
drexel.edu
September 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
TODAY: Join experts from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute as they address urgent questions raised by recent national discussions on autism, like Tylenol, vaccines, and leucovorin, include Q&A. Rigorous science is more critical now than ever. Online only, 5PM ET/2 PM PT:
drexel.edu/dornsife/new...
drexel.edu/dornsife/new...
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Every writer dreams that their writing will remain relevant for many years to come.
Not like this, though.
I wrote this ten years ago. I could have written it yesterday.
Not like this, though.
I wrote this ten years ago. I could have written it yesterday.
"We’re facing a massive public health crisis because a disturbing number of people believe that autism is worse than illness or death. My neurology is the boogeyman behind a completely preventable plague in the making." @fodderfigure.bsky.social, at TPGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/im-a...
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/im-a...
I’m Autistic, And Believe Me, It’s A Lot Better Than Measles — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Vaccines like the MMR (measles, mumps & rubella) don’t cause autism. But even if they did, is being like me really a fate worse than death?
thinkingautismguide.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Every writer dreams that their writing will remain relevant for many years to come.
Not like this, though.
I wrote this ten years ago. I could have written it yesterday.
Not like this, though.
I wrote this ten years ago. I could have written it yesterday.
Eugenecists are making a comeback. And unfortunately, they're using the same playbook from the WW2 era Germans. This is propaganda and is playing on fear. Don't succumb.
Q: Should I be concerned if I have taken acetaminophen at any point during my pregnancy?
A: No.
This, a truckload of helpful autism information plus just the right dose of simmering rage, in the latest TPGA newsletter by Dr. @ejwillingham.bsky.social:
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive... #autism
A: No.
This, a truckload of helpful autism information plus just the right dose of simmering rage, in the latest TPGA newsletter by Dr. @ejwillingham.bsky.social:
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive... #autism
What a week, or the autism roundup no one should have needed
Q: Should I be concerned if I have taken acetaminophen at any point during my pregnancy?
A: No.
buttondown.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Eugenecists are making a comeback. And unfortunately, they're using the same playbook from the WW2 era Germans. This is propaganda and is playing on fear. Don't succumb.
Read all 30 posts in this thread. My son Ian was diagnosed at age 2 back in 2008. He's a Freshman at Saint Mary's College and is receiving accommodations, through Student Disability Services. So much good has been implemented in several places but we have a long way to go, and RFK Jr. is doing harm.
I went on CNN's One Thing podcast last week, talking about how absurd & ass-backwards last week's White House Big Autism Announcement was. But as not everyone listens to podcasts, here's a thread of the conversation:
www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
#autism #TylenolDoesNotCauseAutism #neurodiversity 1/
www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
#autism #TylenolDoesNotCauseAutism #neurodiversity 1/
Are You a Bad Mom for Taking Tylenol? - CNN One Thing - Podcast on CNN Podcasts
Major medical groups are speaking out against claims made by President Donald Trump linking Tylenol use to autism. So where should pregnant people and parents of autistic children turn for guidance? W...
www.cnn.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Read all 30 posts in this thread. My son Ian was diagnosed at age 2 back in 2008. He's a Freshman at Saint Mary's College and is receiving accommodations, through Student Disability Services. So much good has been implemented in several places but we have a long way to go, and RFK Jr. is doing harm.
Please read this if you are a new parent. There is a surge of eugenicist propaganda from the current fascist regime in the USA
I feel so awful for parents of newly diagnosed autistic kids right now, being drowned in such hateful nonsense. You deserve better. Your autistic kid deserves better.
My kid was diagnosed 20 yrs ago; please let me give you hopeful advice:
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/09/afte... #autism #parenting
My kid was diagnosed 20 yrs ago; please let me give you hopeful advice:
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/09/afte... #autism #parenting
After an Autism Diagnosis: 13 Necessary Next Steps For Parents — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
If your child has recently been given an autism diagnosis, as my son was in 2003, here's what I want you to know: Learn from me, don't be me.
thinkingautismguide.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Please read this if you are a new parent. There is a surge of eugenicist propaganda from the current fascist regime in the USA
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If you’d like to unpack all the lies being told to the public right now, here’s your fact valet —
Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism&pregnant people w/fever or pain need it.
Leucovorin isn’t an autism treatment& the reason they’re trying to sell you that is explained in the attached thread& posts
Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism&pregnant people w/fever or pain need it.
Leucovorin isn’t an autism treatment& the reason they’re trying to sell you that is explained in the attached thread& posts
Hellloooooo, journalists! Covering the Mon announcement abt #autism? CHECK OUT the last 3 @thinkingautism.com newsletters for background on the loooong trail of grift in mitochondria-autism industry, starting w/a man who co-authored entire study abt his own daughter w/o disclosing the relationship.🧵
September 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If you’d like to unpack all the lies being told to the public right now, here’s your fact valet —
Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism&pregnant people w/fever or pain need it.
Leucovorin isn’t an autism treatment& the reason they’re trying to sell you that is explained in the attached thread& posts
Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism&pregnant people w/fever or pain need it.
Leucovorin isn’t an autism treatment& the reason they’re trying to sell you that is explained in the attached thread& posts
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September 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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On June 14, we made history with a 7 mile, 20,000 person single line of protesters on El Camino! We said no kings, no fascism, no turning back on our civil...
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Coming August 8th, from the mind behind Dead Bob and Nomeansno…. It’s the right time, for the wrong beer.
#deadbob #nomeansno #wrong #nomeansnowrong #wrongbeer
#deadbob #nomeansno #wrong #nomeansnowrong #wrongbeer
July 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Coming August 8th, from the mind behind Dead Bob and Nomeansno…. It’s the right time, for the wrong beer.
#deadbob #nomeansno #wrong #nomeansnowrong #wrongbeer
#deadbob #nomeansno #wrong #nomeansnowrong #wrongbeer
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KPFA has a correspondent in Gaza — Rami Almeghari — reporting from hospitals & crisis zones.
This is fearless, frontline journalism.
Tune in and listen to The Pacifica Evening News M–F @ 6PM
94.1 FM | kpfa.org
kpfa.org/support
#Gaza #KPFA #FreePalestine #ProtectKPFA #Resist
This is fearless, frontline journalism.
Tune in and listen to The Pacifica Evening News M–F @ 6PM
94.1 FM | kpfa.org
kpfa.org/support
#Gaza #KPFA #FreePalestine #ProtectKPFA #Resist
July 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
KPFA has a correspondent in Gaza — Rami Almeghari — reporting from hospitals & crisis zones.
This is fearless, frontline journalism.
Tune in and listen to The Pacifica Evening News M–F @ 6PM
94.1 FM | kpfa.org
kpfa.org/support
#Gaza #KPFA #FreePalestine #ProtectKPFA #Resist
This is fearless, frontline journalism.
Tune in and listen to The Pacifica Evening News M–F @ 6PM
94.1 FM | kpfa.org
kpfa.org/support
#Gaza #KPFA #FreePalestine #ProtectKPFA #Resist
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Epstein's properties.
www.forbes.com/video/abd733...
www.forbes.com/video/abd733...
The Selloff Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Tainted Homes—And Where The Money Went
Before his second arrest and death in 2019, the convicted sex offender owned a property empire stretching from Paris to New Mexico. All of it has since been sold.
www.forbes.com
July 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Epstein's properties.
www.forbes.com/video/abd733...
www.forbes.com/video/abd733...
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Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
July 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."