Trump Blames Autism on Women. Enough.

I wish I could say I was shocked, but I’m not. I’m furious.

Trump has stood on national TV and said autism is caused by women. Mothers. Because they are not “toughing it out” in pregnancy and because we “let” our children be vaccinated too close together. RFK Jr nodding along beside him. Four powerful men telling women it’s their fault.

This is dangerous. It is misogyny pretending to be science. It is lies dressed up as concern. It is nothing more than another round of blame and control.

And let’s just get this straight. Autism is not caused by paracetamol. There was one dodgy review, cherry picked, and it doesn’t outweigh decades of real research. The bigger studies say no. Autism is not caused by vaccines either, that conspiracy has been dragged out and disproved so many times I’m sick of even having to repeat it. And the idea that autism can or should be reduced to “zero”? That’s eugenics... That’s erasure.

And yet here we are. Mothers carrying guilt they never deserved. Autistic people carrying stigma that isn’t theirs to hold. Conspiracy theorists celebrating because the most powerful man in the world just gave them exactly what they wanted.

I am sick of it.

Autism and ADHD are not mistakes. They are not illnesses to wipe out. They are part of the human condition. These traits helped humans survive. The ability to hyperfocus, spot patterns, take risks, see the world differently. Those are the very things that pushed humanity forward. You want to erase that? You want to erase us?

Society is already unforgiving enough. The pressure to conform, to hide who we are, to fit into boxes that were never built for us. And now this. More fuel for the idea that we are broken. That mothers broke us. That we should not even exist.

I will not accept it.

We do not need blame. We need support. We need understanding. We need acceptance. Parents need real help, not gaslighting 2.0. Autistic people need to be heard, not erased. ADHDers need workplaces and schools that actually adapt, not lectures about being lazy or disordered.

The system is broken. Not us.

If you want to know what real support looks like, that’s what I do at ADHDaptive. Coaching, training, consultancy. Support that recognises difference as strength. Not a problem to be fixed.

Enough.