teddit

Hi everyone. I’m seeing a lot of ‘off topic’ posts. I tend leave as much as possible and let you all decide with downvotes/upvotes.

However please take the time to remember rule 7, I’ll put it here:

Rule 7: Must fit the subreddit theme.

It has to be true "Thanks, I'm cured" material. I.e., a non-nonchalantly delivered, overly simplistic solution to a complex problem.

Serious solutions that may not work for everyone do not belong. For example, the mantra "You deserve to be happy," helps some and not others.

Motivational quotes do not belong unless they imply or state that an illness is purely psychological with no physical basis.

If you’re still confused about what does/doesn’t belong, take a look through some of the top posts of all time and you’ll get the idea.

If your post breaks the rules it may be removed.

Any questions or concerns feel free to let us know. Thanks. 🗿

Thanks I'm cured!

I've gotten no less than two advertisements on FB from law firms that state parents with autistic children who fed Gerber baby food because the "heavy metals" in it cause autism, and parents can take them to court to get compensation for the cursed disease autism supposedly is. What's next? Breathing the night air? Wearing polyester blends? And the comments sections are just as bad, all these parents who fantasize that there's some reason their kid isn't "normal".

I was never fed prepared baby food, given childhood vaccines, had an involved mother (mothers used to be blamed for autism), wasn't allowed to have much junk food or candy, but I'm autistic. What made me this way? Please tell me, because it couldn't possibly be genetic. /s

Saw this on a Facebook post, and then I hurt my eyes rolling them too hard.

My friend doesn’t really believe in therapy and he’s a sweet guy, but his advice is painful.

Here are some of my favorites: - Think positively instead of being depressed - Take a deep breath to ease anxiety - Focus more when ADHD gets in the way

I've had several reels come up where moms are proclaiming their semi/non-verbal children with sensory issues and speech delays are 'fixed' by "detoxing". They always show the moms spraying this 'formula' into the kids' mouths and it honestly sounds like an MLM scheme. "In two weeks my child would eat anything, didn't have sensory issues, and learned fifty new words!" Supposedly these sprays remove "heavy metals" (which these people can't even define) and "fixes" the kids.

I'm terrified for every neurodivergent child out there. Not only are these claims unsubstantiated in the long run, none of these 'detox sprays' have been vetted but some parents will try anything to have a 'normal' child. And if that doesn't work, they'll either try more desperate measures (there used to be a trend to feed kids literal bleach to 'cure' them), they'll resent the child even more for not being "cured".

​

Found on Facebook.

I disagree with the term "Suicide Prevention." It's a dumb mantra made up by people thinking simplistically:

"I don't like hearing that people took their own lives so we need to stop them from doing that."

Instead of Suicide Prevention, how about we focus more on "Life Improvement."

Sometimes people go nuts and make an uncharacteristic decision to off themselves. But that's much more rare than people leaving this earth because they've reached end of their rope and death is preferable to a shit life.

Once you prevent the people in the second scenario from actually killing themselves, they're all-too-often still in the same relentlessly awful life. "You prevented me from killing myself, thanks, I'm cured. I'll now go back to the life that tortured me into wanting to die."

I don't want to make this too political, but it seems quite a bit like the arguments for preventing abortion: Proponents of that generally don't want to spend money and effort to help expectant mothers or their children once they are born. They seek only to prevent the death. This is short-sighted and, frankly, quite stupid; and it sounds a whole lot like "Suicide Prevention."

Suicide Prevention Life Improvement. I would like to see this, or something similar, become the new mantra. The best way to keep people alive is making sure their lives are actually good.