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April 30, 2025

Neurodiversity Is a Strawman

Personal Stories

A dear friend had a beautiful, healthy, engaged baby boy.
After his first round of childhood vaccinations he went blind, non-verbal, started head banging, having seizures, lost all engagement, and fell into the abyss of autism. Today that child is 40. He is incontinent, cannot speak or feed himself, and is totally dependent upon his father to survive.

Another friend had a son and a daughter.
The daughter, following her first round of childhood shots, experienced almost exactly the same scenario described above, minus the blindness. At the time my friend did not connect the dots and when it came time for his son to be vaccinated, the child began to seize. In the room, my friend put it together and stopped the rest of the shots. Today, his son is only mildly autistic while his daughter, at 26, is non-verbal, incontinent, and often uncontrollable. Since the son is only mildly autistic, I suppose we shouldn’t look into the cause of his issues? It’s a gift, right?

A mother (a client in one of the many tragic cases) had a teenage daughter who, after a round of the Gardasil vaccine, suffered a seizure and went into a coma. The young girl had been captain of her volleyball team, top of her class, poised for a full and happy life. Today, at nearly 20, she lives in total darkness because she has seizures every 30 seconds – cannot have any light. The neurodegeneration is unquantifiable. She cannot read or watch TV, let alone go on her first date, go to prom… experience the life she should have and would have.

Another friend had a perfect, beautiful young daughter who was exceeding all of her milestones. After her second round of jabs, she locked in, stopped talking or making eye contact, developed a severe learning disability, and is still struggling today, at 6. She, too, will never experience the “normal” milestones we all would like to see for our children.

Those stories, anecdotal though they may be, are the tip of the iceberg.
I could share thousands, each one worse than the next, that would make most people sit in a room and cry forever.

Media Normalization and Misdirection

The media machinery has conflated mild spectrum disorder with what I just described above specifically so that people will have the reaction they are having right now. This is normalization of extremes by conflating them with non-extremes so that it’s a step-by-step incremental (and coordinated) attack on those who would expose the root cause of the terrible suffering experienced by so many. It’s executed so that people like RFK, Jr. are hobbled from doing their job.

Neurodiversity vs. Harm

How does questioning the environmental harms and risk factors for autism and/or neurodegenerative disorders threaten or even conflict with the idea of autism as neurodiversity?
Spoiler alert: it doesn’t.

No other disease has people normalizing a spectrum (no pun intended) of symptoms ranging from terrible to non-debilitating in order to argue that it’s actually great. We don’t say there’s a spectrum of neurodegenerative disorder from paralysis to neuropathy and there are benefits to neuropathy therefore neurodegeneration is great. This is normalization at its best.

Suddenly everyone’s kid is Rain Man. Suddenly everyone is “on the spectrum.” Ergo, it’s normal. Being a little bit weird is beautiful and normal and we are all a little bit weird so that’s not a disorder.
This is a psyop and everyone is falling for it.

No one is saying there is something wrong with neurodiversity or that we shouldn’t also be looking into that. But when it comes to discovering the contributing factors and co-factors, the environmental insults, and the increase itself in autism to date, we’re not talking about that.
We are talking about, and have only ever been talking about, the above scenarios.

Silencing Investigation

The tactics to muzzle debate and halt real investigation are duplicated across all levels.
(This should all sound eerily familiar when we recall the conflation, normalization, media machinations, and strawmen to emotionally activate opposition tactics used during Covid.)

Unanswered Questions & Red Flags

  • Pharmaceutical companies have no liability for vaccines.

  • The pediatric schedule increased from 3 to 72 in one generation.

  • HHS draws a hard line at 1989 for autism – the year combination vaccines emerged after 1986 liability protections.

The media is adept at keeping dots that should be connected in silos so that most people do not connect them.

The Burbacher Study & The Mercury Debate

The Burbacher Study, if anyone were to know about it, SHOULD have at least sparked research into these potential harms.

Instead, Paul Offit – spokesperson for the pharmaceutical industrial complex – dissects a strawman.
The strawman? Ethyl vs. methyl mercury.

How the Strawman Works:

Offit’s argument:

Ethyl mercury (Thimerosal) clears from the brain faster than methyl mercury.

The problem?

  • There are organic and inorganic types.

  • For the organic type, Offit is right.

  • For the inorganic type, he’s wrong.

Key points:

  • Both ethyl and methyl mercury break down into organic and inorganic forms.

  • The organic form of ethyl mercury clears from the brain faster.

  • The inorganic form of ethyl mercury does not clear – it remains forever.

  • Even methyl mercury clears better, including its inorganic form.

So Offit’s comparison is flawed twice:

  1. It’s irrelevant (no one is proposing methyl mercury injections).

  2. It’s incorrect if considering clearance rates of inorganic forms.

Simply put:
The Burbacher study proves mercury crosses the Blood Brain Barrier.
Did we pause and investigate? No. We ended animal studies for mercury.

A Larger Pattern

This is just one strawman used to marginalize and sideline risks and harms.

Others include:

  • Autism and HHV-6?

  • Autism and glyphosate, PFAS, and forever chemicals?

It’s not ignorance – it’s profit protection and regulatory capture.

Flawed Logic & Confirmation Bias

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Only ONE vaccine has ever been properly tested – and even that, never fully.

If you search one lit area of a dark street and find nothing, do you conclude the entire street is empty?
Do we pour concrete on our confirmation biases? Or search for the truth?

The former is happening. The latter is being suppressed.

What’s Really Being Prevented

The assertion that these issues have been addressed is false.
In fact, it has been disallowed.

A strawman causes outrage.
Outrage creates chaos.
Chaos halts real progress.

That’s the model. It’s coordinated. It works.

The Cultural Psyop

People predictably snatch up the dog treats thrown to them by the mainstream.

The perpetually offended contingent muddies the water by coming unhinged.

We apologize for using a Whole Foods bag at Trader Joe’s.
We’ve become reactive to everything, including the trivial, while ignoring the existential.

What Matters Most

RFK, Jr’s job is not to be Gandhi, but to stabilize a floundering nation.

We cannot prioritize the weakest subset of our population from a government perspective, or we die.
We cannot produce caregivers as fast as we are producing people with autism.
We have to scale back the rate of increase.
That starts with finding and mitigating the cause(s).

A Final Word to Skeptics

To the skeptics:
You likely have friends or children affected by these injuries.
They are terrified to speak out.
They do not have the bandwidth to fight the mob.

I hear from them.
They are grateful for this work.
They are begging not to be “outed.”
Forward-facing, they appear compliant.
But it’s not the truth. Not for them.

They are living it, every single day.
Without a break. Not ever.

Sofia KarstensSofia Karstens is an activist in California who worked closely with publisher Tony Lyons and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on several projects, including Kennedy’s best-selling book: The Real Anthony Fauci. She collaborates with several organizations in the legal, legislative, medical science, and literary spaces and she is co-founder of Free Now Foundation, a non-profit preserving medical freedom and children’s health.

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