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Reading around this, it sounds like bleach has been peddled by some grifters to ignorant parents as something to give to their autistic children. https://www.n
by captainbland 1y ago
Reading around this, it sounds like bleach has been peddled by some grifters to ignorant parents as something to give to their autistic children.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/moms-go-undercover-fight-fake-autism-cures-private-facebook-groups-n1007871 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/moms-go-undercover-fig...
> Once they’re in, they take screenshots of posts from parents who describe giving these chemicals [bleach] to their children, often with disastrous results.
> "My son is constantly making a gasping sound,” posted one Kansas mother who claimed to treat her adult son with chlorine dioxide, according to screenshots shared by Eaton and Seigler. “He won’t open his mouth,” a Canadian mom wrote of her 2-year-old’s unwillingness to drink the chlorine dioxide. “He screams. Spits. Flips over.”
Unfortunately it sounds like this isn't limited to people self-administering bleach - instead it is nothing short of child abuse (and abuse of vulnerable adults where it's not...) in many cases.