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Is it Autism or Just Bad Parenting?

by Will Jones
24 April 2025 5:00 PM

Amid a surge in autism diagnoses, Arthur Mann found a friend’s children detached and glued to their screens. Is it not more likely, he wonders in the Spectator, that we are suffering from an epidemic of disastrously bad middle-class parenting? Here’s an excerpt.

I recently reconnected with an old friend; I went to his house and met his children for the first time. One of them looked up from his screen as we entered the room, faintly curious about the intrusion. The other, with his back to us and his face obscured by a hoodie, didn’t bother. My friend announced their names as if that was sufficient introduction, but it felt weird that the children did not say hello and that one of them did not even show his face. Was something wrong with him? It was a bit creepy. Obviously I let it go. Maybe he was chronically shy or autistic, or facially disfigured. But the brother didn’t behave very differently, so probably not.

It later emerged that Hidden Face did indeed have ‘social-connection issues’ and that his parents were thinking of seeking a diagnosis for autism. By that time, he had deigned to show his face briefly. He shot his mother a venomous glance when she nervously suggested he might sit up for lunch. He whispered some compensatory demand that was instantly granted. I dread to think what it was. I wanted to shake the parents by the shoulders until some sense emerged. Instead, we had a pleasant chitchat about where to go on holiday and what to watch on Netflix.

It chilled me, the glance he shot his mother. It should have earned him a stern rebuke. But it seemed that he was holding an invisible Kalashnikov. His parents feared him. It chilled me but didn’t massively surprise me. Depressingly, I have seen many such cases.

Most readers will agree with the next sentence strongly, but will seldom have seen its sentiment in print. We are suffering an epidemic of disastrously bad middle-class parenting. Dramatically spoiled children are no longer a Roald Dahl rarity but are semi-normal, and many parents dodge blame through the procurement of a diagnosis of this or that condition. …

To be clear, I am not arguing that most children diagnosed with a behavioural condition are really just spoiled. I know some families with autistic children who have worked hard to socialise them, to ensure that they greet family friends when they come round, and so on. But I also know families where the source of the problem is clear as day: the parents have drifted into the terrible habit of failing to teach their children how to behave.

I nearly wrote ‘of failing to discipline their children’. Maybe that word is best avoided, as it suggests six of the best and so on. But discipline really just means teaching, or maybe ‘deep-teaching’. And a child must be taught how to behave around other people – how to keep quiet about his or her desires, how to behave in a vaguely formal way, even at home if people come round. Even this might sound a bit harsh and Victorian to some. “We don’t want him to conform and be polite, we want him to be himself,” a parent might say. But this is a subtle cruelty, because it will lead him to be disliked.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Nigel Farage has said GPs are “massively over-diagnosing” children with special educational needs and disabilities. During a press conference in Dover, the Reform leader criticised an overdiagnosis of “those with mental illness problems and… other general behavioural disabilities”.

So many of these diagnoses – for SEND before 18, for disability register after 18 – so many of these have been conducted on Zoom, with the family GP. I think that is a massive mistake.

If I’m your family GP, and I’ve known your family for generations, and you’re saying to me ‘doc, there’s a real problem here with depression’, or whatever it may be, it’s quite hard for me as your GP to say no.

So I don’t think any of these allocations should be done by family GPs. I think they should be done independently.

I think we are massively – I’m not being heartless here, I’m being frank – I think we are massively over-diagnosing those with mental illness problems and those with other general behavioural disabilities.

And I think we’re creating class of victims in Britain who will struggle ever to get out of it. That’s not good for them and it’s not good for us, so I worry about those things.

I do accept though, I do accept that repeated lockdowns – particularly the third lockdown – were probably the biggest mistakes ever made by a peacetime government in this country. And they have caused great long-term harm.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

Repeat after me:

Data are racist.
Facts are lies.
Breath is death.
Strokes are normal.

Last edited 2 years ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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J4mes
J4mes
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

And as Monkey Pox shows, anal Schwabs are bad for your health.

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civilliberties
civilliberties
2 years ago

this could also be to do with the massive backlog of people who have not been treated and left to suffer for the last two yrs, if you can’t get a doctors appointment or are left with a video call and left un or mis diagnosed, more people are becoming sicker as a result. These jabs are also a contributing factor as well as doctors etc dismiss that the jabs may be causing an effect which leads to a overlook of conditions etc.

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Julian
Julian
2 years ago
Reply to  civilliberties

Stress, depression, unemployment, overeating and drinking during lockdowns, mass vaccination.

All predicted as dangerous here by us two years ago.

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
2 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Indeed. All of this was predicted by so many people, which makes one wonder why no real ‘risk-benefit” analysis occurred before these “health” and “safety” protocols were mandated. They all produced extra and unnecessary deaths. “Public health” has never been worse in my lifetime.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
2 years ago
Reply to  civilliberties

“jabs may be causing an effect” – we need to get real!

Time is getting short.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
2 years ago

Coronavirus lockdown could cause ‘200,000 extra deaths’ | Metro News

is 200 greater than 6?

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Cecil B
Cecil B
2 years ago

The cult becomes a cull

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Cecil B
Cecil B
2 years ago

Every cloud

If this continues then by my calculation by the time winter fuel payments etc come due in October they will have saved themselves £30,588.800

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DanClarke
DanClarke
2 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

They’ll call it a good start

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A Y M
A Y M
2 years ago

Hmm, let’s see what could have caused this to happen?

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Cecil B
Cecil B
2 years ago

Blame it on Liverpool fans

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

I didn’t know Trump supported Liverpool?

Last edited 2 years ago by RedhotScot
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kate
kate
2 years ago

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/monkey-pox-update?s=r
Malone posted this an hour ago. Suggests that the monkeybollox has been genetically manipulated.
In conclusion, the preponderance of current evidence is pointing towards a hypothesis for the origin of this outbreak which is increasingly consistent with prior “war game” scenario planning, remarkably akin to that which occurred during Event 201, which posits emergence of an engineered Monkeypox virus into the human population during mid-May of 2022.

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Horse
Horse
2 years ago

When asked why so many people in their twenties and thirties were dying prematurely of heart attacks and strokes, a spokeswomxn for the regime said “new regime science shows that coffee, bananas, atmospheric conditions, listening to the wrong kind of music, muffins, not sleeping enough, dogs, curtains, jelly beans, freedom, free speech, the right to protest, voting and cold air have all started causing heart attacks in 2022, and the novel cell therapy known to cause clots has nothing do to with it, bigots.”

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dave b
dave b
2 years ago

These hypothesised current excess deaths of 10% or so associated with prior lockdown and or vaccines could have been running for the last twelve months.

Up until now masked in the weekly death data by the ‘premature [by a year or so] deaths’ of the very old and frail of 2020 being subtracted,  or having been ‘brought forward’, from 2021-2022?

Those 120,000 excess deaths covering circa 2020 to early 2021 have to be deducted from later death data at some point.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago

‘According to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Covid deaths have been dropping as the Omicron waves have subsided…’

Lying toads!

Omicron was so mild it was indistinguishable from a slight Cold, so how could it be causing any more than a few chance deaths?

What they mean is Omicron has done what coronavirus do, start disappearing due to seasonal change, and they can’t pin deaths on it.

So add more than 1 000 because of tricksy ‘underlying’ double-talk.

Increase in all-cause mortality: mRNA ju-ju brew deaths which unlike CoVid are being vastly under-reported, deaths from other diseases due to weakened mRNA spike immune systems, and lack of medical care because the permanently overwhelmed NHS is overwhelmed.

But the real cause = Government. When will the arrests and trial start?

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Freecumbria
Freecumbria
2 years ago

If we look at the occurrence data for all cause deaths for England and Wales (which aren’t affected by when bank holidays fall and distorts reported deaths) we can see there has been a move in all cause deaths above the 5 year (2015-2019) average since around the end of March. This increase associates with the latest booster experimental vaccine doses. Association isn’t proof of causation of course.

Ignore the very last point on that chart (20th May) as estimates of deaths that have occurred but not been reported will be subject to major uncertainty.

2022-Deaths-and-5-yr.jpg
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Freecumbria
Freecumbria
2 years ago
Reply to  Freecumbria

And essentially the same chart but this time showing the percentage that all cause deaths exceed the 2015-2019 average (i.e the percentage above the blue line the green line is in the previous chart)

Deaths-vs-5yr-comparison.jpg
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kate
kate
2 years ago
Reply to  Freecumbria

There is this very good analytical substack, FC, it may interest you.

Causes of death in Massachusetts

https://coquindechien.substack.com/p/neoplasm-to-ectoplasm-in-months?s=r

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Freecumbria
Freecumbria
2 years ago
Reply to  kate

Thanks. I’ll have a look later.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
2 years ago

Needs to be broken down by age cohorts. I’d wager the 20-50 groups show a sharp increase compared to baseline.

Nothing to see here.

Your Govt loves you xxx

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artfelix
artfelix
2 years ago

If they’re jabbed it serves them right, frankly.

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thinkcriticall
thinkcriticall
2 years ago

Whisteblower’s Lawyer: Pfizer Got Away With Vaccine Fraud Because Government Was Co-Conspirator

https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/30/whisteblowers-lawyer-pfizer-got-away-with-vaccine-fraud-because-government-was-co-conspirator/

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JayBee
JayBee
2 years ago

The gene therapies are working, slowly but steadily and surely.
Just another faint and fall and another cancer comeback after 25 years of remission in my circle of acquaintances came to my attention last week.

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JayBee
JayBee
2 years ago

“Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide”
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-friends-sorry-to-announce-a?s=r
Worth reposting here.
Noone can still believe in a cockup after having read just this.

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Milo
Milo
2 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

“In the internal trials, there were over 42,000 adverse events and more than 1200 people died. Four of the people who died, died on the day they were injected.”

“The side effects about which Pfizer and the FDA knew but you did not, include blistering problems, rashes, shingles, and herpetic conditions (indeed, a range of blistering conditions oddly foreshadowing the symptoms of monkeypox).”

“The internal documents show that Pfizer (and thus the FDA) knew that angry red welts or hives were a common reaction to the PEG, a petroleum-derived allergen in the vaccine ingredients — one that you are certainly not supposed to ingest. Indeed, PEG is an allergen so severe that many people can go into anaphylactic shock if they are exposed to it. But people with a PEG allergy were not warned away from the vaccines or even carefully watched by their doctors, EpiPen in hand. They were left to their shock.”

Confirms for me for sure if I had had even one of those jabs I wouldn’t have suffered a jab injury. I’d be dead.

Last edited 2 years ago by Milo
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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
2 years ago

There was a very interesting article from a German pathologist which I saw this morning, basically saying that whenever he carries out an examination he finds tissue which has been damaged by the “vax” jab and which caused or contributed to the death by strokes, aneurysms etc.. The immune system tries to destroy the vax induced spike – with consequences which were predictable i.e. death.
I intended to provide a link – but guess what, it appears to have disappeared.
If anyone can find it please let me know.
It was, I think, from the Hart group.

Last edited 2 years ago by Sforzesca
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Libertarianist
Libertarianist
2 years ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

Not the link you were on about, but covers the same information.

https://doctors4covidethics.org/vaccine-induced-damage-to-our-vascular-system/

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
2 years ago
Reply to  Libertarianist

Thanks for that, much obliged.
It is the same one, but I kept getting the dreaded P. 104

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David Beaton
David Beaton
2 years ago

Non- Covid but what about Covid Vaccine deaths then?

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
2 years ago

I read Comment Sections for important anecdotes. This morning at a Substack site I read a post from someone who said a close friend works at a florist shop. This person said that her shop has never had so many orders for flowers for funerals.

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
2 years ago

I prefer to compare weekly deaths with those from years completely outside the hoax pandemic. I use ONS data for 2010-2019, adjusted by population totals to 2020.
What this shows is that this week is 10.6% above the ten-year maximum.
Even averaged over the last 3 weeks, it is 4.0% above maximum and 13.7% above average.
I update regularly on Telegram here.

ONS-WeeklyDeathTotals-220531.jpg
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marebobowl
marebobowl
2 years ago

Yes we all know the covid vaxx is driving excess death in every country that pushed the dangerous and lethal covid vaccines. Read Steve Kirsch, Joel Smalley, Jeff Childers, el gato on their substack. The information is all there. Also read Expose. Demand your gp and mp face reality and have access to this data. Legacy media will not print it. Until we are given back truth, honesty and integrity, this will continue. Demand your rights back.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
2 years ago

See infant mortality rates in Scotland – shock increase reported!

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