…did people think it did?
You’re against circumcision because you believe it causes autism.
I’m against circumcision because I believe genitally mutilating non-consenting infants is an atrocity.
We are not the same.
Tell the religious people that circumcision causes trans women. At least that one could make sense to someone who’s afraid of trans people.
I heard if the doctor doesn’t click his heels 4 times after cutting the umbilical cord or if it is a woman doctor the baby will get the autism.
Can we spread a lie that it does ?
Idk what else will stop people from mutilating their child’s genitals.
Culture needs to be developed where parents are explicitly asked are they mutalating their kids and feel the social pressure.
In the UK, the way they made it go out of fashion is make it so the national health insurance didn’t cover it anymore.
I think that could work here.
fuck AMAB genital mutilation!!! fucking weirdos!!!
I mean, I guess, looking at it with our modern understanding. I look at it like leeches - which were once viewed as a way of helping people get healthier, but then we figured out that was wrong.
With circumcision we knew it wasn’t for ‘hygiene’ for quite a long time lol. It’s about masturbation. They want men to not be cranking it. They still will tho, that’s the lie that everyone knows and everyone just pretends they don’t. But it’s always been about men jacking it. Can’t be petting the snake with God watching.
Watch back. See eye to eye. Cocked and loaded
You needed a study to know that circumcising doesn’t cause brain structure differences?
This IS idiocracy.
Science!
Fuck yeah!
But it does mutilate the child’s genitals.
can we still like, stop doing it though ?
It’s not mandatory, so… yes!
No, sorry; tradition.
SKY CAKE
There is no reason for it either…
Im not surprised
But i am surprised that mutilating your childs genitals without their consent … is perfectly legal
What next… we make a religion that wants to cuts off your own babies ears?
Wanna prevent me from doing that? Thats <insert bigotry term> against me and my beliefs
Still genital mutiliation and child sex abuse
Agree. I’m from Europe and I find it very weird how common it is in the US
It’s SO common in the US that while growing up I felt ashamed and incredibly self concious of being uncircumsized in high school showers. Life’s so strange.
Thankfully the millennial generation has started doing away with circumcising our children. Last time I checked, which was admittedly 10 years ago, the circumcision rates were closer to 50/50 in the US.
Update: It’s dropped below 50%!
“We reviewed over 1.5 million U.S. hospitalizations of male neonates, ages 0 to 28 days, during the period 2012 to 2022, and found that the overall prevalence of hospitalizations where a neonatal male circumcision was performed decreased significantly, from 54.1% to 49.3%,” says study co-senior author Aaron Tobian, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Decreases were observed across most patient and hospital subgroups, including whites — a group with traditionally high circumcision rates — where circumcisions dropped 5.3% over the decade studied.”
My husband started out with the “he should look like me…” and then quickly came around after a bit of reading. The Adam Ruins Everything on circumcision is great!
It’s good to know it’s moving toward not maiming kids. I’m afraid to ask about vaccination rates because my sister’s kids are of questionable status on that front, and my sister won’t talk about such things. Very alternative hippy type.
I wish the stats were even better than they are now honestly. I think it’s a horrendous practice.
It’s not really a thing outside the USA? At least not in Canada anymore. I’m one of a bunch of kids and about halfway through my siblings they stopped recommending it.
Confused the hell out of 8 year old me tasked with giving my 3 year old brother a shower.
you beat me to that exact phrase 👍
Yes bit it doesn’t cause autism so it’s not bad/wrong.
What kind of craziness would cause a person to think that it might?
neurospices are stored in the foreskin, when you cut it they get released into the bloodstream! /s
Welcome to 2026. Hope your cryo sleep was good. You will find that this kind of craziness is now pervasive.
I. C. Weiner…?
Probably the same craziness that causes people to think vaccines cause autism.
I would hazard a guess, which obviously I don’t know if this is what they’re really thinking or not, but I would guess that since there are behavioral overlaps between ASD and CPTSD, that somebody might have made the connection.
That being said, there’s no evidence that circumcision gives people CPTSD on its own, at least none that I am aware of, and if somebody else knows more than I do, (which is quite easy to do), feel free to educate me.
My partner is triggered if reminded that it’s circumcised
I got som’ Tylenol for you if you have coin for me :>
What kind of craziness would cause a person to do it in the first place?
Abusive murderous wizard friend needs his favorite little calamari rings.
I could maybe see how the pain and/or trauma of it could alter how the brain might develop, but even that’s a stretch…
Autism isn’t a trauma response!
Especially given the crossover between asd and CPTSD, it doesn’t strike me as an insane thing to look at, but I’m also not surprised it’s not related.
Genital mutiliation and child sexual abuse can have extreme consequences on mental development. It’s a (well-intentioned) case of bad cause-effect analysis.
So it’s not as bad as Tylenol?
Is there a study to see if it helps with headache since I can’t take Tylenol anymore?
“Parents have been concerned about this potential circumcision-autism connection, but hopefully these findings may help allay their fears,” says senior author Monica McGrath
Dear Dr. McGrath,
Which parents?
Sincerely,
Sane people
The ones who wouldn’t be persuaded by peer reviewed studies anyway, because they did their research.
