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The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it

Thankfully, we now know more about conditions such as autism and ADHD. The health secretary must not be part of this attempt to turn back the clock, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

This Startup With 60% Employees On The Autism Spectrum Beat Meta-Backed $14B Scale AI For $708 Million Pentagon AI Contract

Artificial intelligence company Enabled Intelligence, with a majority neurodiverse workforce, announced on Nov. 24 that it has secured the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s largest data labeling contract.

Benzinga

Lady Refuses To Babysit 14YO Autistic Nephew Again Or Attend Fam Christmas After He Bites Her

Instead of having a quiet evening of babysitting, a woman found herself being bitten by her autistic nephew for 20 seconds when she tried to get him to sleep. She was horrified by the situation and expected her injuries to be taken seriously, but was shocked when her sister did…

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Can Dogs Be Autistic Like Humans? Scientists May Now Have The Answer

An animal scientist claims that some dogs exhibit behavioral and chemical traits similar to those found in neurodivergent humans.

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“Pawtism”: Dogs Can Show Neurodivergent Traits According To New Research

An animal scientist claims that some dogs exhibit behavioral and chemical traits similar to those found in neurodivergent humans.

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Wes Streeting launches review into ADHD, autism and mental health services

The Health Secretary has previously said there has been an ‘overdiagnosis’ of mental health conditions.

Evening Standard

Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar

Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’

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Streeting orders review of mental health diagnosis amid welfare reform drive

The Health Secretary is concerned about a sharp rise in the number of people making sickness benefits claims because of diagnoses for mental illness.

Evening Standard

Do you have Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria — or are you just human?

Buzzy new terms in the ADHD and autism communities are leading even more individuals to believe they’re on the spectrum. But could their inherent relatability be more horoscope than haute psychology?

Evening Standard

Autism Symptoms in Toddlers: Early Signs Every Parent Should Know for Healthy Child Development

Early autism signs in toddlers can appear before age two. Learn key ASD early signs, developmental milestones, and when parents should seek professional guidance.

Medical Daily

RFK Jr. says he's following 'gold standard' science. Here's what to know

President Donald Trump and his Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. say they want the government to follow “gold standard” science

The Independent UK

RFK Jr. Breaks His Promises About the CDC on Vaccines and Autism

The secretary of Health and Human Services lied to Sen. Bill Cassidy during his confirmation hearings.

Reason

RFK Jr. says he personally directed CDC's new guidance on vaccines and autism

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told The New York Times in an interview that he personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism

The Independent UK

Mom Thinks Autistic Son Ruined Her Work Dinner After Boss’s Comment, But Things Take A Wholesome Turn

In society, we’re expected to follow all kinds of unspoken rules about how to behave around others. Break them, and you risk coming across as rude or out of place. But for people with autism, reading those cues isn’t always straightforward. So when one man joined his mother’s dinner with…

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CDC website altered to reflect RFK Jr’s belief in link between vaccines and autism

Public health and autism specialists roundly condemn alteration to the ‘vaccine safety’ webpage

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5yo boy with autism returns from school with a fracture. When the mother investigates, she discovers horrific footage of what two teachers did to him

The boy could not speak for himself. Thankfully, the school surveillance cameras did.

The Independent UK

CDC website is changed to raise suspicions of a vaccines-autism link

The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism

Benzinga

CDC's New Wording On Vaccine-Autism Statement

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that once firmly stated vaccines do not cause autism has been revised to say they might, a shift that surfaced during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Senate confirmation process.

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The Independent UK

RFK Jr updates CDC website to link vaccines to autism despite years of agency fighting misinformation

The website now states that “studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.”

The Conversation

Autistic dogs? Neurodiversity in our pets and what it might mean for us

I live with several cocker spaniels. They are smart and affectionate, but sometimes air-headed, impulsive and extremely sensitive. It’s common for friends to describe my dogs as “having ADHD” as one of my canine whirlwinds whizz past.

The Guardian - UK

His research on autism was compassionate – how could Hans Asperger have collaborated with the Nazis?

The Vienna-based ‘father of neurodiversity’ was ahead of his time in his work but was also implicated in the Third Reich’s crimes. My novel set out to explore these contradictions

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Woman with autism and social anxiety refuses to leave the sofa. Her parents’ response? They didn’t move her for 12 years

She literally rotted into the couch while her parents did nothing.

The Independent UK

Two over-the-counter medications you should never combine, according to doctors

Doctors have warned that mixing the two drugs can be dangerous as they both contain a high amount of a certain chemical

The Conversation

The rise of the autistic detective – why neurodivergent minds are at the heart of modern mysteries

There never seems to be a shortage of good crime shows on TV, and network television is teeming with detectives who think – and act – differently.

The Independent UK

Despite Trump’s claims, new review by experts finds no link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism

Experts say pregnant women should still be advised to take Tylenol to treat pain and fever

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