How can you tell a dog with autism from a dog that does not have it?
Itβs wagging its tail and itβs a good boy.
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. π
(sh.itjust.works)
I read a news story about a guy who died from rabies after receiving a kidney transplant. Although nobody was aware when he died, the donor of the kidney had contracted rabies after being scratched by a skunk several weeks before he died and his organs were harvested.
I got curious about how the donor got scratched by the skunk, but instead only found this article from August, which informed me that the U.S. has a rabies outbreak, and has more deaths from rabies in the last year than several previous years...
Not sure if people were already talking about this outbreak, and I just missed it? It's been a bit of a weird year, and there's been a lot of crazy shit to keep up with.
Anyway, this is also how I ended up reading the sentence informing me some people are worried dogs are getting autism from vaccines.
Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows
Regardless of how bizarre this is the implied message is "I'd rather see my kid die of a virus than have any autism."
I think it's that attitude with any neurodivergence or mental health related issue. You know, all the things that ~~doctors didn't know about diagnosing~~ "just didn't exist" in the past.
Like we saw the consequences of people struggling through life, not getting a diagnosis, and not understanding why life was so challenging. For example, my dad was dyslexic and my mom very likely had ADHD, but neither was ever diagnosed.
They just struggled constantly through school, had terrible self esteem, and when somebody told them to just give up and choose a different career path they just said ok, guess I'm just not cut out for this.
Then I got both, and my parents were ok with acknowledging the dyslexia bc it was pretty easy to diagnose.
The ADHD was a whole other story, and I was told by my own parents (who were tough on me because they just didn't want me ending up like them) and most of my teachers, that I was just careless and lazy over and over. I started hating school when I was like 8, and barely even finished high school. When I got to college by the skin of my teeth, I found stuff that actually interested me, but I still struggled so much through college and grad school. For a very long time, I believed the reason everything was so so much harder for me than my peers was bc I was just dumb/not cut out for it.
I had to wait until I was in my 30s and had my own real job and insurance to even attempt to seek help and get an ADHD diagnosis, and even then it took a very long time, but I'm so glad I finally did it.
Maybe if we can keep society from further devolving, in a few generations we can also get people to understand that acknowledging neurodivergence and mental health in kids isn't weakness, and doesn't mean you have to accept some kind of dangerous magical sorcery. It just means understanding that people often thrive when you allow them to just be themselves, and treat them like individuals with their own strengths, weaknesses, and unique skills.
Our dog is absolutely autistic, and we could care less. His allergies on the other hand are a PITA.
Why do you think it's autism? One of my cats is mentally "special" as the vet told me after asking some questions. She couldn't get any more specific. He's a great cat and very happy.
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Didn't foresee this as a consequence to the rise of the antivax conspiracy. Sure I knew we'd be in trouble to reach herd immunity for the next epidemic/pandemic, but now we have to worry about rabbies in pets too. And what's next? Antivax farmers refusing to vaccinate their cattle?
George Carlin taught me about those people in the 90s.
That's actually pretty wise, what if your then autistic dog outsmarts you now thanks to their autism? /s
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Whoa! I was gonna ask which dogs would be more likely to have autism if that were possible. Instead, after some quick research it turns out there is a controversial and debated analog to autism in dogs termed CDB (canine dysfunctional behavior) that can include symptoms such as repetitive/compulsive behaviors, social challenges, heightened sensory sensitivities, and difficulty with changes in routine.
Bull terriers apparently are the breed which exhibit the most CDB-like symptoms. However, the breeds that are recommended to match with autistic humans are ones that are more predictable, gentle, calm, and friendly (e.g. labs, goldens, etc).
So we (autistics) are just considered stupid. Great.
That is not at all entailed by my comment.
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Here's hope that stupid Americans will just die out completely due to natural selection.
It might take a long time though, probably not enough to exterminate all the stupid pedo rapist voters.
We don't need to fear vaccines anymore. All we can do is accept them even if we're opposed to them because Bill Gates is putting vaccines in all of our lettuce & farm produce from all the farms he bought up.
The microchips attach inside your stomach and control your behavior
Got that dog in me
Yeah.
We're stupid.
Hopefully just survivors of the lead epidemic.
Wait, so should one not been feeding dogs Tylenol this whole time, trying to make super dogs? Asking for a friend...
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Hope you're all ready. This ship is not going to correct course when the orange traitor dies.
Our problems go WAY deeper than that.