17/09/2026
Well, fu***ng finally.
The National Autistic Society has updated its evidence review and is now stating clearly: autism is genetic.
Which, as an autistic mum raising autistic children, is perhaps the least shocking plot twist of my life.
Because while the internet has spent years blaming vaccines, paracetamol, screen time, processed food, mothers, parenting and whatever the latest Facebook conspiracy happens to be…
Autistic families have been sitting here looking around the dinner table like:
“Yeah. Genetics seems fairly fu***ng plausible.”
And importantly, this isn’t saying scientists have discovered the autism gene. Autism is genetically complex. There are likely many different genes and genetic variations involved, and there is still a huge amount we don’t understand about exactly how genetics and other biological factors interact.
But what we do have extremely strong evidence for is this:
Vaccines do not cause autism. The WHO has just published another major systematic review of research from 2010 to 2025 and found that the strongest studies do not support a causal relationship between vaccines and autism.
And there is no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism either.
Autistic people have always existed.
We weren’t poisoned into existence.
Our mothers didn’t cause us.
Vaccines didn’t create us.
And perhaps instead of continually searching for something or someone to blame for autistic people existing, we could put that energy into making the world a little fu***ng easier for autistic people to exist in.
That would be progress. ♾️
Ctto
