Set us back years

Donald Trump’s claim there is a link between autism and paracetamol use in pregnancy has been condemned. Here BBC1’s The One Show host CARRIE GRANT, who has four neurodiver- gent children, blasts the “blame Mum” culture...

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Apparently, us mums are responsible for our children’s autism because we took paracetamol during pregnancy. Despite much evidence to show this is not true, I am sure these claims will set back autism research and the autistic community for years.

In the 1940s, mums of autistic children were called “refrigerator mothers”. They were told their coldness and lack of emotion towards their newborns caused autism.