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haele

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4. The Amish don't have Autism?

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:24 PM

Sep 22

Or is it, the Amish, with their simple, repetitive traditional lifestyle, don't care enough about Autism to get their kids diagnosed and "treated".
I've 2nd cousins in Pennsylvania Dutch area, Autism and ADHD aren't big issues if you're not working in a job that's considered complex, requires independent or quick thinking or flexibility, or requires one to go to college.

Autism is on "the increase" because diagnosis tools have improved over the decades.

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This will cause a deadly wave of preventable infectious diseases in the country. "It's crazy." [View all] bigtree Sep 22 OP

Maybe instead of vaccines, they should "introduce light into the body". LuckyCharms Sep 22 #1

LOL!! yes.... some_of_us_are_sane Sep 22 #2

"it's too much liquid" bigtree Sep 22 #5

LOL!! some_of_us_are_sane Sep 22 #17

Honest to God that guy is beyond dangerous. Klarkashton Sep 22 #3

From the College of Batshit Crazy.... some_of_us_are_sane Sep 22 #10

It's cold comfort to assume that this level of intense Klarkashton Sep 22 #13

The Amish don't have Autism? haele Sep 22 #4

he heard a rumor bigtree Sep 22 #6

From that phantasmic "they' B.See Sep 22 #14

I was wondering that myself canetoad Sep 22 #12

Sociologists study the Amish all the time... haele Sep 22 #18

Interesting canetoad Sep 23 #19

What the hell is this even supposed to mean? Wiz Imp Sep 22 #7

People have always been able to space out vaccines SickOfTheOnePct Sep 22 #8

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he is so fucking ridiculous Skittles Sep 22 #11

Sounds like he's channeling the Cha Sep 22 #15

The "largest pile of...STUFF... B.See Sep 22 #16

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