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sexism and racism go hand in hand. You rarely have one without the other. Also this child had his brain experimented on from the minute this child was conceived. he didn't stand a chance. evidently people couldn't tolerate the mother's behavior when she was a child and put her on SSRI'S. She grew up and had a baby who was exposed in utero. we need more tolerance so we stop labeling children mentally ill and then drugging them. People who are racialized are often the first to get labeled and drug in their childhood. It just doesn't happen to white kids. Did we forget the APA apologized for their racist ways. I hope someday they apologize for their Patriarchal ways that can cause as much harm as their racist ways have but I won't hold my breath. Teen age girls are being drugged at higher number than teen age boys. this reeks of sexism which is as rooted in our culture just as racism is.

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"it just doesn't happen to white kids?!!!" You're living in lala land. I know oodles of white autistic kids on antipsychotics.... Their white parents are desperate to drug them, desperate for something to fix their intolerable behaviour... You're living in an ivory castle but hey, anything to keep the myth that bad things only happen to black people

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