I think it's fair to say there there is still no safe analgesic. Normal NSAIDs wreck your stomach and probably your heart. Opioids are physically safe in comparison but addictive.
The trouble with autism is that it's eaten up all other developmental disorder diagnoses:
It used to be you were MR or a little bit weird or in some other way different. If you're a bipolar adult like Kanye West you might say you are autistic to escape the stigma of serious mental illness.
The autism awareness movement has everybody scared so when a paper like this
presents data to the effect that 37-90% of people who think they are autistic actually aren't it is presented as if there are five autism subtypes.
bediger4000•54m ago
You've hit on some important things here, but the "escape stigma" part strikes me as important. It appears that the MAHA theme is going to re-stigmatize autism and other mental illness, with a side of making them moral failures. Like they were in the '60s and before. If we want to help in general, this is the wrong approach.
PaulHoule•1h ago
Liberals now are going to run to the defense of a drug that causes a significant number of overdose deaths just to spite Trump:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37436926/
I think it's fair to say there there is still no safe analgesic. Normal NSAIDs wreck your stomach and probably your heart. Opioids are physically safe in comparison but addictive.
The trouble with autism is that it's eaten up all other developmental disorder diagnoses:
https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Matrix-Gil-Eyal/dp/074564399X
It used to be you were MR or a little bit weird or in some other way different. If you're a bipolar adult like Kanye West you might say you are autistic to escape the stigma of serious mental illness.
The autism awareness movement has everybody scared so when a paper like this
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/07/09/major-autism-study...
presents data to the effect that 37-90% of people who think they are autistic actually aren't it is presented as if there are five autism subtypes.
bediger4000•54m ago