Debunking the Dangerous Myth that was given a loud voice Monday, the 22nd of September.
The Devastating Return of Maternal Blame, which is to say the Resurrecting of Old Wounds.
For me as a neuropsychologist, the most insidious aspect of the Tylenol-autism claim isn’t just its lack of scientific data, it’s the way it resurrects the historically damaging practice of blaming mothers for their children’s autism.
For decades, families endured the devastating so called refrigerator mother theory, which falsely suggested that cold, unloving mothers caused their children’s autism.
