Don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but the woonatics of the world eschew actual medical experts because they're "Big pHARMa shills."
"Big Pharma" is an industry that makes less than $2 trillion per year. The "wellness industry," on the other hand (which is being pushed by RFK The Lesser and all of his fellow nutjobs he's hired to replace the real experts and at which all the gullible people throw alllll their moneys) is running at about $6.8 trillion per year. This is about a 26% rise over the past couple of years because of these people.
My child’s brain functions differently. Let’s give them bleach enemas that make them poop out their intestinal linings (which we will insist must be worms) because that will be good for them (anecdotally, parents evil enough to try this said their children were less active and much more quiet afterwards, probably because of the horrible stomach aches, feeling sick, and wondering what the heck made their parent punish them that way).
Those "parents" are absolutely awful. Like, they can't stand the fact that their kids aren't their idea of "perfect" so they have to go all in for these crazy and often dangerous "cures" to "fix" their kids.
If you ask me, people like that should be "fixed" before they have children.
I was diagnosed “ADD” and hyperactive before it was ADHD. These days I might have even been put on the spectrum (lots of difficulty figuring out people, social cues, getting overwhelmed by too much stimulation, etc.).
My mom was raised that children who didn’t behave as expected were a judgment against their permissive parents, and tried very hard to punish it out of me.
I have a lot of empathy for all kids, and even more for anyone who isn’t neurotypical.
Oh, I'm so sorry. I've known kids like you were my whole life and I always felt so bad for them. Generuinely nice kids but just...a bit "different." Not BAD different, but often FUN different! Then I'd find out what their home lives were like and just wanted to cry.
Yeah. 1974 wasn’t prepared for girls who didn’t meet expectations. When I was maybe three or four my mom told me I had a smart mouth and she would be slapping it every time I “got smart.” She felt she was doing a good parenting thing warning me of consequences before starting consistent punishment.
I had no idea what she was talking about. Random slapping while I was talking happened, then one day she reached to adjust a barrette in my hair and I flinched away and she realized she had only made me afraid of her. She looked very sad and never slapped me again.
A few years ago I was watching a British comedian talking about when she broke her teacher (she was diagnosed neurodivergent). The teacher was using a box for a lesson on prepositions. Immediately the comedian had a ton of questions about what kind of box it was…
…I finally recognized what my mom had been trying to slap out of me 50 years prior. 🤣
I know what you mean—the '60s and '70s (when I grew up) wasn't prepared for kids who weren't like the Bradys (although, Beaver Cleaver was kind of a handful and everybody loved him, lol) and didn't really know how to deal with them, especially in school. I saw too many classmates shuffled off to a "special" class when even I, at the tender age of nine or 10, could see that their differentness was being punished.
I'm glad your mom wasn't able to slap it ALL out of you! 😘
Most people find me funny and strangely genuine (I am not capable of lying and confused by evil and unkindness). My mom passed when I was 8. The female parenting got worse. In hindsight, my dad was mostly consistent except for the perfectionism.
In the end, my life made me who I am, so it served a purpose. ❤️
Call me crazy, but any product which includes the words “magical” and “miracle” in the name are a hard No from me. Even toilet cleaner, much less healthcare.
Giving your child bleach, or bleach enemas, even diluted as per MMS guidelines, is 100% child abuse.
Ditto chelation therapy, borax, and honestly everything that claims to "cure" autism, which is not a disease. I 100% understand that parents, particularly in a society without free healthcare or respite care, can struggle with autism. I do. The answer to that, though, does not involve shaming their children and dragging them through every miserable, nasty, expensive piece of shit medical woo "treatment" available.
OT tangent, but hyperbaric therapy is also used for wound healing! Still not even close to being used to somehow magic neurodivergent kids into being neurotypical.
Is there some kind of conditioned reflex in Bobby’s brain caused by the worm that causes him to look at whatever is based on rigorous scientific studies and then decide to do the opposite?
>>As you may recall, Geier got in trouble with the Maryland State Board of Physicians back in 2011 for practicing medicine without a license, and this was one of the treatments he offered. <<
Geier's father, who also got his tit in the wringer over that shit, was at least an M.D. Geier himself couldn't even rise to the level of quack.
Don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but the woonatics of the world eschew actual medical experts because they're "Big pHARMa shills."
"Big Pharma" is an industry that makes less than $2 trillion per year. The "wellness industry," on the other hand (which is being pushed by RFK The Lesser and all of his fellow nutjobs he's hired to replace the real experts and at which all the gullible people throw alllll their moneys) is running at about $6.8 trillion per year. This is about a 26% rise over the past couple of years because of these people.
My child’s brain functions differently. Let’s give them bleach enemas that make them poop out their intestinal linings (which we will insist must be worms) because that will be good for them (anecdotally, parents evil enough to try this said their children were less active and much more quiet afterwards, probably because of the horrible stomach aches, feeling sick, and wondering what the heck made their parent punish them that way).
Those "parents" are absolutely awful. Like, they can't stand the fact that their kids aren't their idea of "perfect" so they have to go all in for these crazy and often dangerous "cures" to "fix" their kids.
If you ask me, people like that should be "fixed" before they have children.
I was diagnosed “ADD” and hyperactive before it was ADHD. These days I might have even been put on the spectrum (lots of difficulty figuring out people, social cues, getting overwhelmed by too much stimulation, etc.).
My mom was raised that children who didn’t behave as expected were a judgment against their permissive parents, and tried very hard to punish it out of me.
I have a lot of empathy for all kids, and even more for anyone who isn’t neurotypical.
Oh, I'm so sorry. I've known kids like you were my whole life and I always felt so bad for them. Generuinely nice kids but just...a bit "different." Not BAD different, but often FUN different! Then I'd find out what their home lives were like and just wanted to cry.
Your answer makes me a little weepy. ❤️
Yeah. 1974 wasn’t prepared for girls who didn’t meet expectations. When I was maybe three or four my mom told me I had a smart mouth and she would be slapping it every time I “got smart.” She felt she was doing a good parenting thing warning me of consequences before starting consistent punishment.
I had no idea what she was talking about. Random slapping while I was talking happened, then one day she reached to adjust a barrette in my hair and I flinched away and she realized she had only made me afraid of her. She looked very sad and never slapped me again.
A few years ago I was watching a British comedian talking about when she broke her teacher (she was diagnosed neurodivergent). The teacher was using a box for a lesson on prepositions. Immediately the comedian had a ton of questions about what kind of box it was…
…I finally recognized what my mom had been trying to slap out of me 50 years prior. 🤣
I know what you mean—the '60s and '70s (when I grew up) wasn't prepared for kids who weren't like the Bradys (although, Beaver Cleaver was kind of a handful and everybody loved him, lol) and didn't really know how to deal with them, especially in school. I saw too many classmates shuffled off to a "special" class when even I, at the tender age of nine or 10, could see that their differentness was being punished.
I'm glad your mom wasn't able to slap it ALL out of you! 😘
Most people find me funny and strangely genuine (I am not capable of lying and confused by evil and unkindness). My mom passed when I was 8. The female parenting got worse. In hindsight, my dad was mostly consistent except for the perfectionism.
In the end, my life made me who I am, so it served a purpose. ❤️
Call me crazy, but any product which includes the words “magical” and “miracle” in the name are a hard No from me. Even toilet cleaner, much less healthcare.
https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-s-fda-pulls-warning-about-fake-autism-treatments-2000710367
Hed: RFK Jr.’s FDA Pulls Warning About Fake Autism Treatments
Subhed: The webpage previously noted that there is no cure for autism.
Giving your child bleach, or bleach enemas, even diluted as per MMS guidelines, is 100% child abuse.
Ditto chelation therapy, borax, and honestly everything that claims to "cure" autism, which is not a disease. I 100% understand that parents, particularly in a society without free healthcare or respite care, can struggle with autism. I do. The answer to that, though, does not involve shaming their children and dragging them through every miserable, nasty, expensive piece of shit medical woo "treatment" available.
This is what happens when a religion that says everybody must act exactly the same in order not to piss off their Gawd takes over a government...
People with autism don't "behave correctly", so they must either be cured or eliminated.
Screw the 1st Amendment- make Xtiainity illegal now before we all get "sent to Heaven early".
OT tangent, but hyperbaric therapy is also used for wound healing! Still not even close to being used to somehow magic neurodivergent kids into being neurotypical.
Ta, Robyn. Neurodivergent solidarity.
Is there some kind of conditioned reflex in Bobby’s brain caused by the worm that causes him to look at whatever is based on rigorous scientific studies and then decide to do the opposite?
Makes you wonder, doesn't it.
Will phlogiston finally be legalized/made real?
Trepanning has not been receiving the recognition it deserves.
Well how else do you expect them to balance their humours?
"the name is Phlegm, Ian Phlegm"
No mention of leeches or bloodletting?
That's next week's announcement.
>>As you may recall, Geier got in trouble with the Maryland State Board of Physicians back in 2011 for practicing medicine without a license, and this was one of the treatments he offered. <<
Geier's father, who also got his tit in the wringer over that shit, was at least an M.D. Geier himself couldn't even rise to the level of quack.
Sorry libs, but I'm giving my kids raw camel milk cut with bleach to make sure they don't end up like youuuu
...and they definitely won't end up like youuuu if they die first!!!
[black dude tapping his head gif]
Pardon me. I'd love talk about this but I have to go and milk my porcupine. I get not only the milk but a nice leech-like bleeding, to boot.
Everyone who uses the word toxin without specifying which toxins they're actually referring to is a liar and a fraud.
I'm late here, but I will just drop this off...
https://quackwatch.org/
Oh look, RFK Jr. has his own links. FFS