Millions of American families were vindicated on Monday when the Trump administration announced that vaccines do, in fact, cause autism. Although acetaminophen (Tylenol) also got a lot of headlines during the announcement, it was clear from President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., that the real root of the problem has been the skyrocketing amounts of vaccines that babies are given. The MAHA movement has now scored its biggest victory yet for the health of American children.
President Trump opened the press conference by announcing that there does seem to be a correlation between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism. New guidelines will be going out to all physicians about this immediately. President Trump also warned women to completely avoid Tylenol during pregnancy. He also stressed that Tylenol should not be given to children.
The president then charged ahead and blamed the childhood vaccination schedule for the rapid increase in autism rates since the 1990s.
“They pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies, it’s a disgrace,” he noted.
He added that parents should break up vaccine visits and spread them out over many more years, instead of giving infants 72 shots during the first year they’re alive. He also recommended that “combination” vaccines be broken up into individual shots, such as the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella).
One thing that may have been confusing from the presser, which I thought could have been clarified better, is that Tylenol alone does not cause autism.
Acetaminophen has been around since the 1890s. It gained recognition as a fever and pain reducer in the mid-20th century and was cleared as an over-the-counter medication in the 1960s. Pregnant women used Tylenol for 30 years before autism rates started to skyrocket in the 1990s.
The big change that led to increased autism rates started in the 1980s. In the early 80s, there were only about six shots on the infant vaccination schedule. By the late 80s, that had ballooned to 27 shots.
Another thing to remember is that maternal vaccines were never given prior to the late 1990s. That was when the medical community decided to start jabbing women with a tetanus shot, a flu shot, and a hepatitis B shot as soon as they got pregnant.
If a pregnant woman gets sick and starts running a fever, the doctor recommends Tylenol, the same as they did from the 1960s through the 1980s. The difference between the 1960s and today is that mothers are taking Tylenol now because they got sick from a vaccination. The baby in the womb also received those vaccines and the Tylenol.
After the baby is born, the parents take the baby in for a vaccination visit. The vaccine very frequently injures a baby, causing fever and encephalitis (brain swelling). The doctor tells the parents to give the child Tylenol for infants.
So, the pattern is:
Vaccination exposure, followed by the outbreak of a fever or even infant seizures. That fever is the triggering event for autism. When Tylenol is given to a baby, it depletes glutathione, which weakens the baby’s defenses even further. The result is a brain injury and cognitive regression that we all recognize as autism.
In hopefully plainer English, the vaccines are what trigger autism. Tylenol amplifies the injury and makes it even worse.
Other than that clarification, President Trump and the MAHA team deserve an A+ for finally launching this conversation. No other president or HHS Secretary has ever dared to take on the pharmaceutical industry by using the words “vaccines” and “autism” in the same sentence. The work is just getting started, and there is much more to come.
Parents have been treated monstrously by the medical community over this issue for the past 30 years. As Kennedy noted during the announcement, as many as 70% of mothers are firmly convinced that vaccines caused their child’s autism. Those families have suffered immense harm, and the medical community’s response has been to lie to them, call them names, and dismiss them.
Many of us in the autism community never thought that we would see progress like this in our lifetimes. There is still a lot of work to do, but admitting the root cause of the problem is a huge step in the right direction.
Thank you to President Donald Trump, Secretary Kennedy, and the entire MAHA team!