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[–] 77 points 2 months ago (34 children)

Wow, glad we got that cleared up in 2026.

The “everything causes autism” groupthink really downplays and distracts from the long-standing but poorly-communicated fact that circumcision offers no health benefit that regular bathing won’t cure.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 months ago (15 children)

    Its crazy to me that the ONLY serious reason anyone gives for why they get babies circumcised is

    "I don't wanna tell my child how to clean their penis"

    What a fucking shame. The child rearing fans really wanna make a whole child and then pay a doctor to mutilate them instead of acknowledge they have genitals!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    I’d assume it’s more like they don’t want to have to explain to their kid why their penis doesn’t look at all like Daddy’s. Not that it’s a much better reason, though. Curious how many non-circumcised fathers opt for their kids to be circumcised.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    No if you ask almost every time they will site "hygiene issues"

    Or they will say "women prefer it" or something insane.

    And that's assuming they don't cite religion which is crazy in the US because Christianity does not in any way require it at its core.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Circumcision offers no actual benefit, yet carries the risk of life changing consequences. It's genital mutilation.

    And even if they didn't see it as mutilation, what kind of an idiot decides that the first thing they need to give their baby is elective cosmetic surgery?

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    [–] 52 points 2 months ago

    No, but it is still a barbaric practice that needs to end immediately.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    You still shouldn't mutilate a child's genitals unless medically necessary.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    I am circumcised, autistic, and agree with you.

    However it’s crazy dangerous for autistic kids for society to assign blame something clearly unrelated with what their parents believe is something wrong with their child.

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    No, but it does cause genital mutilation

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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It does, however, produce trauma

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    [–] 15 points 2 months ago (13 children)

    Who the hell thought that it did?

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    Weird how no one ever mentions the ancient Jewish tradition of being the first to suck a baby's penis. But, I guess maybe that's because it's not as nasty as the ancient Jewish tradition of mutilating a baby's penis so he finds masturbation less pleasurable for his entire life, to show their parent's fealty to the god of suffering.

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    [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Sometimes I walk swinging my arms around as if they were just hanging from my upper torso. I apologize for the lewdness but I don't feel like I should chop them off.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Not the onion? The fuck‽

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    ... so? Female genital mutilation doesn't cause autism either, but we don't use that to make it seem alright.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Maybe they should just stop all this and check whether nuerodivergent people might possibly have other nuerodivergents in their family.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Hey, my parents were perfectly normal! My dad liked to spend hours in the basement playing with his model train set, just like my grandpa.... Ohh shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    We're not becoming more aware of neurological differences and diagnosing, we're just becoming less tolerant. Change my view.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I dunno man, it felt pretty intolerant of people who treated me poorly back when I was just considered "weird", compared to how I'm treated now that I have a known condition. I feel way more accepted now than back before people understood what this all was. Now I have all kinds of tools to help me cope that I never had access to before.

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Try it for every condition one by one.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    People will think anything other than they are undiagnosed and passed it on genetically...

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Have they tried before birth?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It's just another form of religious genital mutilation.

    No autism conspiracy required to object.

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