I’m going to indulge in a bit of a rant here people, because
lately, I seem to be seeing more and more nonsense of various kinds on social
media and elsewhere, both new and way more of the old types of nonsense. And
I’m fed up with it.
I’m fed up with the anti-vaxxers, the flat-earthers, the
creationists, the bleach-will-cure-autism crowd, the drinking-your-own-urine
lot, the essential-oils-will-cure-everything people, and all their ridiculous, ridiculous, not to mention sometimes dangerous,
ilk. I’m tired of stupid. So I have to ask –
WHAT IS WRONG
WITH YOU PEOPLE?? DO YOU KEEP YOUR BRAINS IN YOUR POSTERIORS? DID YOU SIT DOWN
TOO HARD AND BREAK THEM? WHERE IS YOUR FREAKING COMMON SENSE?
Why do you antivaxxers/pro-diseasers cling to a theory
repeatedly proven false, its promoter shown to be a fraudster and a liar? Why
do you insist on posting stuff full of wonky science you obviously don’t really
understand, even when REAL scientists and doctors point out ‘that’s not how it
works’? Why do you assert that pro-vaxxers must all be ‘paid shills of Big
Pharma’, even as you’re blindly listening to charlatans and letting them fleece
you? Why do you maintain that vaccines are ‘full of toxins’, flying in the face
of the evidence that they’re not, and that ‘vaccine damage’ isn’t really a
thing? And why, why, why do you insist that vaccines
are harmful, but somehow the diseases they protect against are ‘harmless’? I
mean, logic much? Hello?
And flat-earthers, why are you clinging to a theory (and it
was never more than that) of the planet which has long since been disproven and
hence discarded centuries ago due to the discoveries of ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC
OBSERVATIONS of the universe? Were you all asleep down the back in science
class? Did some hot astrophysics major turn you down, and threaten your fragile
masculinity? (All of you I’ve seen are male.)
And you creationists – if you find comfort and/or a moral
code in the bible, whatever. But to use it to fool yourself into believing that
a bunch of ancient creation myths somehow translate into a basis for going
against all the findings of centuries of science and archaeology? And then to
have the nerve to demand schools teach your ridiculous beliefs as ‘facts’,
flying in the face of actual scientific reality? No. Just no. I’ve SEEN your ridiculous,
deluded ramblings, and they’re about as far from ‘truth’ as it’s possible to
get.
And why are you bleach-swillers forcing a caustic substance
on your kids, either up their rear ends or down their throats? Why are you so
willing to cause them pain, and see huge chunks of their intestinal lining ripped
out? Why can you not see the truth? Are you THAT scared of autism? Even after autism
has been well established as genetic, and nothing to do with imaginary
‘parasites’? And the same goes for all the other ‘curebies’ out there, whatever
so-called wacky ‘treatment’ you’re using. Not only are you totally barking up
the wrong tree, YOUR tree doesn’t in fact even exist. (And don’t get me even started on ABA.)
And you warrior-cum-martyr mommies and daddies, when we
challenge you, how on earth do you have the gall to tell us that we ‘aren’t
autistic enough’ to comment, when you’re NOT AUTISTIC AT ALL and by your own
logic, therefore shouldn’t say anything? How can you tell us that we ‘don’t
understand’, ‘you’re not like my kid’, blah blah blah, and even tell us
outright - as one particularly obnoxious woman did recently - that we have ‘no
right’ to use identity-first language, no right to talk to parents of autistic
kids, no right to say anything at all about autism? To anyone? That we should
just shut up and go away - when YOU obviously know NOTHING about autism
yourselves, while we, who actually LIVE autism, are ignored, derided and
shunned? Please, tell me where the logic, let alone the fairness, is in THAT?
And ‘health nuts’ – are you competing to see who can do the
most stupid thing in the name of ‘health’? It’s bad enough when you insist that
you can’t be healthy unless you buy a ton of expensive foods that we poor can’t
afford, or tell those of us with chronic illnesses or disability that we ‘need
to just take this miracle cure’, or ask if we’ve ‘tried yoga’. But when you do
things like sculling back your own urine? Urine is what the body has already
discarded as waste, what possible good can re-ingesting it do? You’ll just be
forcing the body to refilter it, and probably giving yourself a bellyache and
foul breath to go with it. It’s beyond belief that you could be sucked in by
this nonsense.
And while I’m on the subject of health - essential oils as ‘miracle
cures for everything’? Great in the bath or an oil burner, but ingesting it? Really?
Are you totally deprived of all
common sense? This goes double for those of you who won’t vaccinate, but you
put toxic oils inside you? You make me want to find the nearest brick wall and
bang my head against it. Hard.
And why do you conspiracy theorists of all stripes delude yourselves
that the ‘gubmint’ is ‘out to get’ you? That it’s created elaborate hoaxes to
fool you, or ‘poison’ you, or whatever? Why are you so convinced they even CARE
what you think, that they’d go to such lengths? Faked moon landings and all?
That you’re the only ‘woke’ ones, knowing stuff that the ‘sheeples’ don’t? Is your ego really THAT big? Your sense of
self-importance that overwhelming? Are you that freaking NEEDY? Do you really
believe the world revolves around you? GET A GRIP ON YOUR EGO!
Newsflash, people - the rest of the world isn’t out to get
you. Instead it’s rolling its collective eyes at you, laughing at you, or
wanting to slap some sense into your stupid head. And no amount of ego-stroking
in your science-forsaken, logic-forsaken, rationality-forsaken echo chambers on
social media will change their minds.
And no, science isn’t perfect, governments aren’t perfect,
nobody and nothing is perfect. But to use their mistakes, to blow them up out
of all proportion and twist them into things they’re simply not, and then
wholesale INVENT stuff, or to claim that the GOVERNMENT is inventing stuff ‘just
to fool you’, defying all logic and common sense along the way, simply to boost
your own egos and satisfy your own sense of self-importance and ‘wokeness’, is
just plain stupid. There’s no other word for it.
And when you add in all the other nonsense out there, the resurgence
of right-wingers and Nazis, Trumpet and his sickening cronies, anti-science and
fundamentalism on the rise, school and other mass shootings and the whole gun
lobby thing, the whole damn ‘hate autism’ thing and the damage it’s doing to
autistics, not to mention all the hatred and wars and oppressions and general
idiocies running riot - how utterly screwed-up the world is in general – it’s
all enough to make me lose what little faith I have left in the human race, and
to go crawl into a hole and die.
The only thing that gives me any hope at all is the numbers
of those opposed to all these stupidities. Those brave people who are willing
and ready to take on these fools, to rip them apart with logic, debunk their
conclusions with REAL science, and skewer their idiocy with oh-so-apt humour,
plus of course those willing to get out there and fight them offline as well.
Particularly the younger generation. I’m old. I’m tired. I
admit it. I’m not the Fiery Young Radical I once was. I do what I can, but it’s
not that much. And I know that, short of a miracle, I probably won’t live to
see any huge change, especially in the way autistics are regarded and treated.
So the baton has already been ‘handed on’, and I’m proud of what they’re doing.
Otherwise, I am SO over it all.
