False Cures. Real Harm. What Parents Need to Know.

The Trump administration has now confirmed the worst of the rumors. In a sweeping set of announcements, they have officially endorsed the false narrative that prenatal Tylenol causes autism and are positioning folinic acid (Leucovorin) as a potential treatment. They are also reopening long-debunked vaccine myths, invoking the Amish as proof, which wasn't even factual to bring up, as a study showed their autism rates in 2010, misrepresenting Hepatitis B transmission, and promoting dangerous changes to vaccine schedules. The FDA has even begun a label change process for Tylenol and Leucovorin based on correlation-heavy studies with no causal confirmation. This is not science. This is fear-driven policymaking.

And it's terrifying.

Because this isn't just another bad headline or another hollow claim from RFK Jr. This is now the federal government using the language of health and care to advance propaganda, profit, and control. When the head of CMS may have direct ties to a supplement company that sells folinic acid—the very compound they now recommend through Medicaid and CHIP—we're not talking about evidence-based medicine. We're talking about state-sponsored snake oil.

Let me be clear: folinic acid is not a cure for autism. The study they cite does not claim that. At best, it shows potential targeted benefit for a small subset of children with a specific folate receptor autoantibody profile. That's not the majority. That's not a cure. And the idea that Tylenol causes autism? The strongest study we have—a sibling-controlled analysis of nearly 2.5 million children in Sweden—found no causal link whatsoever. None. (See video explanation from the researcher here) This is not up for debate. It's not being suppressed. It's simply what the data shows.

What the administration is proposing isn’t science — it’s surveillance. Instead of the double-blind, placebo-controlled trials that experts say are needed, they’re rolling out folinic acid nationwide through Medicaid and CHIP, then tracking outcomes based on parental reporting. That isn’t a clinical trial; it’s an observational registry riddled with bias. No blinding, no randomization, no controls. It’s not designed to prove anything — only to generate propaganda data dressed up as evidence.

So why push this now? Why declare war on acetaminophen and prop up a supplement? Why reheat vaccine conspiracies that have already done irreparable damage to public trust?

Because fear sells. Because profit is louder than ethics. Because some people would rather paint autism as a disease to be cured than a neurodevelopmental identity to be understood and supported.

And in doing so, they are not helping autistic people. They're targeting us.

Every time someone in power says "we're going to solve the autism problem," what many autistic people hear is, "we're going to solve you."

This rhetoric fuels erasure. It invites eugenics under the guise of empathy. It sets the stage for policies that sound helpful but act harmful. It tells parents to blame themselves, and autistic people to hate themselves. It gives grifters a stage and researchers a muzzle.

We don't need billionaires and bureaucrats crafting miracle cures in press releases. We need support, services, and respect. We need housing, access, AAC, flexible education, and community. We need to be believed, not pathologized. Listened to, not studied like puzzles. Loved, not fixed.

We deserve better.

So when they come with their "solutions," ask who they serve. Ask who profits. Ask who gets erased. And above all: remember that autistic people are not broken. We are not a tragedy. We are not collateral damage in someone else's war on complexity.

We are here. We are valid. We are not your political chess peice.