On Tuesday, January 13, Minnesota Public Radio shared a story on its social media page showing video of a woman in visible distress as she was pulled from her car, cut from her seatbelt, tackled forcefully, and carried to an unmarked vehicle by four masked ICE agents in South Minneapolis.
The Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM) is deeply concerned by recent revelations of fraud within Minnesota’s publicly funded disability services system. These actions represent not only a misuse of public resources but a direct harm to people with disabilities who rely on these services to live full, self-directed lives in…
The Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM) joins the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Autism Society of America (ASA), and other national partners in raising deep concern about recent changes to the CDC’s website that imply uncertainty about the well-established scientific consensus on autism and vaccines. Public institutions have a…
The Autism Society of Minnesota is deeply concerned by statements made at yesterday’s White House event on autism, where unsubstantiated claims were presented as the “cause” of autism and harmful language was used to describe autistic people. Autism is a diverse, lifelong disability shaped by a complex interaction of genetic,…
The Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM) is deeply concerned over the recent announcement by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding the creation of a federal autism registry. While we strongly support rigorous, ethical, and science-based research to better understand autism, the methods proposed in this initiative…
This week, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a series of public comments about autism that were scientifically unfounded, deeply stigmatizing, and harmful to everyone in our autism community. The Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM) unequivocally rejects Secretary Kennedy’s characterization of autism as a…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released new data on autism prevalence through its Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network. The report estimates that 1 in 31 eight-year-old children in the United States are identified with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)—an increase from the previous estimate of…