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EPISODE · Oct 4, 2025 · 14 MIN

St. Louis’ autistic community rebuke Trump for calling autism ‘horrible, horrible crisis’

from St. Louis on the Air

It’s been a week since President Donald Trump conducted a press conference where, among other things, he promoted a highly disputed link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism. But while most of the news coverage focused on Trump’s fixation on what causes the neurological disorder, St. Louis’ autistic community and its allies were struck by how the GOP president characterized autism “a horrible, horrible crisis.”

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It’s been a week since President Donald Trump conducted a press conference where, among other things, he promoted a highly disputed link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism. But while most of the news coverage focused on Trump’s fixation...

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