Stacy Smith

@OriiionInOrbit Life and common sense. And 20 plus years of being an autism parent and advocate, and reading every piece of research I could get my hands on. But the first 2 sum it up much better.

@OriiionInOrbit Wrong. It’s being misdiagnosed in adults, especially women, and it’s happening daily. You are assuming people are being appropriately diagnosed, and it is no longer even close to consistent. Add in the self diagnosing crowd and the autism diagnosis is a total mess

so genuinely, did you have an incompetent clinician or did you lie to them about your difficulties, because those are the only two options. no one is getting an adult autism dx without showing both significant impairment in adulthood and proof that it was present in childhood.

@DrPlantel 😂 what? Well for one I have a child who was able to be taken off of seizure medication by changing his diet. Is that “case” specific enough for you? It will have to be considering I lived it. 😂

@DrPlantel You are writing the prescriptions for the meds that cost a fortune. It’s like a glorified pharmaceutical sales person. In many cases there are far better ways to help people, but the corporatized medical community apparently doesn’t have much idea of what they are.

I genuinely can’t wrap my head around this idea that doctors are getting rich off pharma by prescribing medications that cost $4. Like…what exactly is the payout supposed to be for prescribing metformin or an albuterol inhaler? We are not getting “rich” off generics. There’s no secret check tied to writing a prescription for meds that have been around for decades and cost less than your morning coffee. And no, we don’t get a Venmo every time we prescribe a brand name medication either. If anything, we’re prescribing generics, hunting down savings programs, and constantly arguing with insurance companies just to get medications covered for our patients. The narrative just doesn’t hold up.

@Suzierizzo1 Then leave the juice sweetened. There is no true need for jello, or reason people are having a panic attack. It might be a comfort food for a lot you. It’s not healthy and dieticians in hospitals should have plenty of other ideas for how to meet patients metabolic needs.

@Suzierizzo1 Umm frozen unsweetened juice anyone? And it should be organic. It’s a hospital. They can afford it. Take it out of the CEO’s salary. Why is everyone so worried about Jello?! You’ll live without the jello. It will be alright.

He’s seriously out of his mind because Jello is a food that’s easy to digest,hydrating & perfect for post op surgery patients in recovery because their throats are usually dry & sore & Jello is soothing to them.The packages are extremely small too.

@CarlNicholls6 @drterrysimpson @DianaT192 @AmyMorg56188253 You agree that gain of function is a problem correct? Just go ahead and start there, or end there. Because something definitely has ended there, and it’s the people buying the lies.

@autismrain @drterrysimpson @DianaT192 @AmyMorg56188253 You retweet Liz Churchill. Opinion dismissed.

Those are postmortem clots. Embalmers have always seen clots, because blood does not remain a politely circulating fluid after the heart stops. It settles, coagulates, separates, dehydrates, and changes with time, temperature, illness, trauma, hypoxia, infection, refrigeration, and embalming technique. The “amyloid misfolded fibrinogen” claim is doing a lot of work without doing much science. COVID infection itself is well documented to alter fibrin, clot structure, endothelial function, and inflammation. Spike-fibrin interactions have been studied in COVID disease, but that does not mean every stringy clot in an embalming room is proof of mRNA vaccine injury. Yes, rare vaccine-associated clotting exists, especially the adenoviral-vector TTS/VITT syndrome, which was identified, investigated, and warned about precisely because safety surveillance worked. It was rare, clinically distinct, associated with thrombocytopenia and anti-PF4 antibodies, and not simply “weird clots found later by an embalmer.” So the answer is simple: a photograph of tissue on a glove is not epidemiology, pathology, toxicology, or causation. It is a photograph.

@tylerblack32 So you are outright dismissing the experience of Caden Larson who now sits on IACC? That’s rich. Please do expand on what you think you know about that individual and his ability to effectively communicate. One of us has a definite advantage here, and it’s not you.

@autismrain Facilitated communication is evil, and anyone recommending, facilitating, or administering it deserves the worst fates possible. Stop being an exploitative person.

Facilitated Communication is both awful and sad. Awful for the families that believe they are "unlocking" their child's thoughts, and sad for the reality that they are being grifted by a centuries-old magic trick.

@drterrysimpson @DianaT192 @AmyMorg56188253 Which would currently be you Dr. Simpson. Uninformed and ill educated. Educated by Pharma and stuck in arrogance and cognitive dissonance. True intellectual strength requires continuous curiosity and the ability to admit when you are wrong. Gain of function research concern you?

@DianaT192 @AmyMorg56188253 Only for the uninformed and ill educated

@PaulRidley5 As does everyone. Everyone should be able to be who they are. And everyone masks at times. These are feelings that are normal within the human experience. Perhaps it’s the people surrounding you that are the issue? We need to stop pathologizing the human experience.

Autistic people deserve to exist without pressure to mask. To hide who they are. To fit into narrow expectations. That is not fair.

@DrNeilStone There isn’t even any point in arguing with you. You are cherry picking data and in order to do that, you KNOW you are doing it. Interacting with this man is a literal complete waste of time.

just so tricky to figure out if vaccines work or not Let's look at polio. The data isn't clear We may never know

@CriticSusan @JeromeAdamsMD Yes the bar is currently very very low for what our medical professionals are expected to know. Can you tell us what an off table vaccine injury is? How would you know if one is occurring? What would you look for? What tests would you run? Show us that bar can be raised today!

@JeromeAdamsMD I wrote that yesterday that at least she had a medical license. The bar is so low. Her lack of experience in running a large organization may be a problem. She's a critical thinker, unlike Means, which is a huge plus.

My thoughts on Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Trump’s third nominee for Surgeon General: She has an active medical license and an ongoing clinical practice. (In 2026, we really shouldn’t have to highlight that… but here we are) She is an exceptionally clear communicator - especially effective at reaching conservative audiences who often tune out traditional public health messaging. I’ve worked with her before and found her to be genuinely fair-minded. She at least tries to see both sides. She leans heavily toward “personal responsibility” and is skeptical of government intervention. That’s understandable, but I hope her time leading the Public Health Service and seeing the programs that actually expand healthy options for people who currently have few will soften that stance a bit. You can’t always make the healthy choice when the environment only offers bad ones. She has no apparent experience running a large organization (the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps has about 6,000 officers). There will be a steep learning curve, but she’s clearly smart enough to handle it, especially if she leans on her experienced senior officers for support. She has publicly pushed back against both RFK Jr. and President Trump (for example, on claims linking Tylenol or vaccines to autism). That independence is refreshing- She’s no sycophant. The challenge will be maintaining that willingness to speak truth to power once she’s inside the administration instead of commenting from a Fox News studio. Hopefully she’ll be allowed to follow the science wherever it leads. Overall, this is a solid pick. I believe she’ll be confirmed and that she has both the clinical background and the temperament to do a good job.👇🏽 washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04…

@JeromeAdamsMD Tylenol IS an issue with autism. I’m sorry that fact is so bothersome to some of you.

@PaulWhiteleyPhD That’s an interesting statement by the creator. It doesn’t seem to matter with autism research. They have been slowly adding in self diagnosed individuals into the actual research since 2013. I don’t think it matters to many therapists right now either, they are making a fortune.

RSD is exploding online. But what does the science show? psychologytoday.com/us/blog/if-i-b… In relation to ADHD, pretty much nothing. Not part of the diagnostic criteria & even the creator said " it can’t be measured, and, therefore, can’t get published in research" (which is big red flag)

In 2017, one my first tasks at the White House was to keep Bobby Kennedy far away from the West Wing. Not because President Trump didn't want him there (he'd actually agreed to Bobby's pitch to create a vaccine safety commission). But others (you can guess who) weren't thrilled, and they told me to get rid of him. So I protected the orthodoxy I'd been trained to protect. And it took me years to realize what I had actually done. Tomorrow, I publish the full confession. The 2002 autism moms I ignored. The 2017 vaccine safety commission I killed. The 2021 moment I finally broke. The apology I owed Secretary Kennedy. And what I've done to atone. It's hardest thing I've written. I'm sending it out to my list at 6am. (link to sign up in comments)

@mdufay @McCulloughFund @P_McCulloughMD @AmerAcadPeds Weird right? Their recent response to Leucovorin treatment for autism was also very telling. They have no issue writing antipsychotics for the same patient population, but had a major problem with a vitamin. They do not act in the best interest of the children or doctors.

@McCulloughFund @P_McCulloughMD Like I’ve been saying, the @AmerAcadPeds hates children.

A Federal Judge Just Wiped Out All Vaccine Reform. We're Back to Square One. 90 days ago, the CDC trimmed the US vaccine schedule to match Denmark's — moving many vaccines to shared decision making. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, and five other organizations sued RFK and HHS. A federal judge ruled in their favor. Every reform is gone. The schedule is fully restored. All progress lost in a single ruling. Join the Fight: mcculloughfnd.org Courtesy of The Integrative Health Podcast, Dr. Jen Pfleghaar @integrativedrma , DrTalks @DrTalksOfficial Watch the Full Episode: drtalks.com/videos/vaccine… #MedicalFreedom

@RealDebunkThis @McCulloughFund They still are.

@McCulloughFund Those pediatricians hid CBD for Epilepsy for 70 years.

@grag60907 @McCulloughFund @P_McCulloughMD The DOJ hasn’t even appealed. We need more people to wake up and wake up fast.

@McCulloughFund @P_McCulloughMD This is a federal judge who should be disbarred. Judge is not a doctor has no idea what this decision means. This needs to go to the Supreme Court. The case is not what the people approve of. More and more people are gonna start homeschooling if this doesn’t change real fast.

@GeneMunce @McCulloughFund @jathorpmfm THIS. Where is the DOJ on this is the million dollar question? And why?

@McCulloughFund @jathorpmfm Where is the DOJ in appealing this? It is appalling the lack of response.

@QueerlyAutistic Self diagnosis is not scientifically valid. Autism is being way over diagnosed in middle aged women.

"Hi, I'm self-diagnosed autistic." "How dare you think you know better than doctors! Only a professional can decide if you're autistic or not!" "Hi, I'm diagnosed autistic." "Well, clearly the doctors who diagnosed you are incorrect because I've decided you can't be autistic."