Carol Greenburg
@autisticenough.bsky.social
Autistic parent of autistic artist, athlete etc. about whom I’ll never stop kvelling. Editor at @thinkingautism.bsky.social. Fan of democratic governance & real science. U should read Steve Silberman’s NeuroTribes. Love gardens & teatime.
Signal boosting for what I agree is @lollardfish.bsky.social’s best essay on this topic. Even when we ourselves refuse to speak disrespectfully to or about disabled family members, it’s a hard task to get services while maintaining boundaries w/ professionals who assess them for their service needs.
I think this is my best essay on this topic (maybe my best essay). I'd like you to read it, if you haven't.
It also means (@lollardfish.bsky.social has ably written about this) that you as a parent are forced to concentrate on and narrate your child's difficulties just to get them what they need, which is damaging to your child and your relationship with them.
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Signal boosting for what I agree is @lollardfish.bsky.social’s best essay on this topic. Even when we ourselves refuse to speak disrespectfully to or about disabled family members, it’s a hard task to get services while maintaining boundaries w/ professionals who assess them for their service needs.
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If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
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Personally?
I welcome a world where people are truly afraid to cross Black women.
It'd be a nice fucking change of pace.
I welcome a world where people are truly afraid to cross Black women.
It'd be a nice fucking change of pace.
December 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Personally?
I welcome a world where people are truly afraid to cross Black women.
It'd be a nice fucking change of pace.
I welcome a world where people are truly afraid to cross Black women.
It'd be a nice fucking change of pace.
Oh yes, mid-meltdown I too can walk—into traffic—and produce words (in no known language) at the same time. The ability & to some extent the choice to mask, is 1 example
of white privilege. Fellow white autistics, pls remember black & brown autistics usually can’t unmask w/o fear of consequences
of white privilege. Fellow white autistics, pls remember black & brown autistics usually can’t unmask w/o fear of consequences
I can produce words when I'm overwhelmed; you're just not going to understand what I'm talking about.
Please don't ask autistics to "use their words"—as many autistic people think in images, not words, and so cannot possibly do what you are asking. Or they have processing issues. Or agnosia. Or apraxia. Or situational mutism. Or alexithymia. Or are overwhelmed. #autism #neurodiversity 12/
December 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Oh yes, mid-meltdown I too can walk—into traffic—and produce words (in no known language) at the same time. The ability & to some extent the choice to mask, is 1 example
of white privilege. Fellow white autistics, pls remember black & brown autistics usually can’t unmask w/o fear of consequences
of white privilege. Fellow white autistics, pls remember black & brown autistics usually can’t unmask w/o fear of consequences
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"Vaccines do not cause autism. Vaccines let autistic children live long enough to become autistic adults. Autism is not a tragedy to be prevented; it is a way of being deserving of support and respect." From @autisticadvocacy.org:
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/12/asan... #autism #VaccinesWork
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/12/asan... #autism #VaccinesWork
ASAN Condemns Dangerous Disinformation at ACIP Meeting - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
For the past two days, the Advisory Council on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met to discuss various topics related to vaccination. At this meeting, ACIP members continued to spread false information a...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"Vaccines do not cause autism. Vaccines let autistic children live long enough to become autistic adults. Autism is not a tragedy to be prevented; it is a way of being deserving of support and respect." From @autisticadvocacy.org:
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/12/asan... #autism #VaccinesWork
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/12/asan... #autism #VaccinesWork
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Why do babies need a hepatitis B birth dose?
We answer this question in full here.
www.voicesforvaccines.org/answering-ke...
We answer this question in full here.
www.voicesforvaccines.org/answering-ke...
Answering Questions On The Hep B Birth Dose
Americans deserve clear answers to common questions about newborn hepatitis B vaccination. We would like to address these concerns.
www.voicesforvaccines.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Why do babies need a hepatitis B birth dose?
We answer this question in full here.
www.voicesforvaccines.org/answering-ke...
We answer this question in full here.
www.voicesforvaccines.org/answering-ke...
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Grateful for the clear messages coming from @ameracadpeds.bsky.social @idsainfo.bsky.social @apha.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Grateful for the clear messages coming from @ameracadpeds.bsky.social @idsainfo.bsky.social @apha.org
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This is why it is so important for scientists and public health professionals to embrace plain language. They have shot themselves and the whole country in the foot with convoluted wording.
#ACIP Aaron Siri is now misrepresenting the Institute of Medicine's conclusion on vaccines and autism. It was terribly worded and hard for a regular person to understand, which is one them. But the IOM basically said we can't prove a negative. There is no link between vaccines and autism.
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This is why it is so important for scientists and public health professionals to embrace plain language. They have shot themselves and the whole country in the foot with convoluted wording.
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Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
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Who is “we”? Because *I* expect profound authentic apology&reparation. This framing conflates emerging from a crucible of externally imposed struggle to produce deeply emotional artistic output w/a scrambling effort to make bank on the hope that everyone has forgotten his unforced criminal errors
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
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Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Who is “we”? Because *I* expect profound authentic apology&reparation. This framing conflates emerging from a crucible of externally imposed struggle to produce deeply emotional artistic output w/a scrambling effort to make bank on the hope that everyone has forgotten his unforced criminal errors
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Mistrust and conspiracy mentality have always been cornerstones of the anti-vaccine movement.
It is a movement driven by ideology, not evidence.
And it is a movement predicated on science illiteracy and dependent on pseudoscience to advance its 200+ year-old harmful narrative.
It is a movement driven by ideology, not evidence.
And it is a movement predicated on science illiteracy and dependent on pseudoscience to advance its 200+ year-old harmful narrative.
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Mistrust and conspiracy mentality have always been cornerstones of the anti-vaccine movement.
It is a movement driven by ideology, not evidence.
And it is a movement predicated on science illiteracy and dependent on pseudoscience to advance its 200+ year-old harmful narrative.
It is a movement driven by ideology, not evidence.
And it is a movement predicated on science illiteracy and dependent on pseudoscience to advance its 200+ year-old harmful narrative.
For the umpteenth time, #VaccinesSaveLives. Get your kids vaccinated. Make sure you and all of your family members are up to date on all of their vaccinations. 💉
I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better.
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For the umpteenth time, #VaccinesSaveLives. Get your kids vaccinated. Make sure you and all of your family members are up to date on all of their vaccinations. 💉
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You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
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November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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You don't have to make a moral argument, a pragmatic argument will do
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
You don't have to make a moral argument, a pragmatic argument will do
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I've been yelling about two health-related topics this morning: lab-leak conspiracy theories (both COVID-19 and HIV) and the eugenicist lies of these people.
Somewhere out there I know there must be someone who can explain why eugenicists love racist lab-leak conspiracy theories.
If that's you..
Somewhere out there I know there must be someone who can explain why eugenicists love racist lab-leak conspiracy theories.
If that's you..
I can't scream loudly enough that the people leading HHS right now are liars. RFK Jr. Marty Makary. Vinay Prasad. They are liars. And the lies they are telling are the lies eugenicists like themselves tell.
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I've been yelling about two health-related topics this morning: lab-leak conspiracy theories (both COVID-19 and HIV) and the eugenicist lies of these people.
Somewhere out there I know there must be someone who can explain why eugenicists love racist lab-leak conspiracy theories.
If that's you..
Somewhere out there I know there must be someone who can explain why eugenicists love racist lab-leak conspiracy theories.
If that's you..
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...I'm very interested in the connection!
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
...I'm very interested in the connection!
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I'm looking for scholars here more than shitposters, btw. Not that I don't love your shitposts, but I'm interested in someone who can really shed light on how the racism embedded in both eugenics and lab-leaker conspiracies leads the same people to both places.
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I'm looking for scholars here more than shitposters, btw. Not that I don't love your shitposts, but I'm interested in someone who can really shed light on how the racism embedded in both eugenics and lab-leaker conspiracies leads the same people to both places.
This isn’t even about his decline: He was raised to be transactional.
If it is possible for infant to be transactional Dear Leader was BORN this way.
If it is possible for infant to be transactional Dear Leader was BORN this way.
ICYMI: Mafia Don the Con Trump’s pardons aren’t just political; more importantly, they’re transactional.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Trump’s pardons aren’t just political; more importantly, they’re transactional | CNN Politics
So much of the coverage of President Donald Trump’s pardons is focused on how political they are. And they are certainly political – extraordinarily so.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This isn’t even about his decline: He was raised to be transactional.
If it is possible for infant to be transactional Dear Leader was BORN this way.
If it is possible for infant to be transactional Dear Leader was BORN this way.
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@aftynbehn.bsky.social @ms.now @jenpsaki.bsky.social Putting it out there & making the rounds. Good Luck Aftyn the whole world is rooting 4U!! Tennessee is losing jobs, Nurses &teachers have professional Edu status excluded, social safety nets are shredded. It's dire straits youtu.be/MWdthOmuqfU?...
GOP panics as Democrat closes gap in red district special election
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November 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
@aftynbehn.bsky.social @ms.now @jenpsaki.bsky.social Putting it out there & making the rounds. Good Luck Aftyn the whole world is rooting 4U!! Tennessee is losing jobs, Nurses &teachers have professional Edu status excluded, social safety nets are shredded. It's dire straits youtu.be/MWdthOmuqfU?...
Is it really so hard for journalists to ask Trump “Mr President, what do you expect to gain from calling reporters names like ‘Piggy’ and ‘Stupid’ ?”
I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Is it really so hard for journalists to ask Trump “Mr President, what do you expect to gain from calling reporters names like ‘Piggy’ and ‘Stupid’ ?”
Today and always, so grateful for real science! #VaccinesSaveLives
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Today and always, so grateful for real science! #VaccinesSaveLives
I am forever thankful for the heroism and compassion of President Zelenskyy.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I am forever thankful for the heroism and compassion of President Zelenskyy.
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Good morning! Please read and share this very informative piece put together by @thedoublev.bsky.social. House Democrats launch ICE Watch Dashboard to track allegations of abuse. This is very helpful!
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November 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Good morning! Please read and share this very informative piece put together by @thedoublev.bsky.social. House Democrats launch ICE Watch Dashboard to track allegations of abuse. This is very helpful!
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
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#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
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