Posted by The Extra Spoon on Sep 25th 2025
Top 5 Responses to White House Announcement Linking Tylenol to Autism
Autism is a spectrum disorder that's been in the news a lot lately. We know at NaturalHealthyCBD.com that many of our clients either have children with autism or are autistic themselves. In fact, our parent company TheExtraSpoon once held a fundraiser for the Autism Self Advocacy Network (an organization chosen by you!) We hear the concerns with the current administration and their focus on the autism community and we know a lot of things are changing to fit the chosen narrative, even making fact checking difficult at times. We know that it seems scary, but we also know that you're significantly not alone and we would like to let you know what is being stated by the actual communities and actual studies that stand behind you and have since the discovery of autism in 1911.
While the narrative seems to change often between psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler and child psychologist Leo Kanner, we can find medical research studies documenting autism as far back as 1911, another notable publishing in 1943. Although autism was not formally recognized until the twentieth century, examples of probable autism are found earlier. For example, Martin Luther (1483–1546), through his note taker Mathesius, has a story about a 12-year-old boy with features of severe autism. Perhaps the first well-documented case of autism was that of Hugh Blair of Borgue, Scotland, in a 1747 court case that involved the brother of this person seeking to gain Hugh Blair’s inheritance. A medical student (Jean Itard) treated a wild child with autistic features who was called by history the Wild Boy of Aveyron and was a feral child caught in 1798.(1)
What is the point?
Well with the FDA being told to publish science that wasn't actually tested, we've been noticing a lot of news sites changing their factoids which means they can't really be relied on in the first place. To get to the point, we must first discuss the history of Tylenol.
Tylenol, trademarked brand of acetaminophen (paracetamol), a pain reliever and fever reducer introduced in 1955 by McNeil Laboratories, Inc. Tylenol later was owned by the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical conglomerate, and in 2023 it came under the control of the consumer health business Kenvue, a Johnson & Johnson spin-off.
Acetaminophen was initially synthesized in 1878 by American chemist Harmon Northrop Morse. Acetaminophen gained interest as a potential analgesic (pain-relieving drug), though uncertainties about its safety stalled its development. About the same time, the analgesic drug aspirin emerged and quickly dominated the market, contributing to a loss of interest in acetaminophen and the drug being largely forgotten.
In 1949 McNeil Laboratories, a family-run firm, pursued the use of acetaminophen as a safer alternative to its precursor drugs. By 1955 the company had introduced Tylenol, a trademarked name for acetaminophen, as TYLENOL Elixir for Children. In 1959 Johnson & Johnson acquired McNeil, and soon after the drug was made available over the counter as an alternative to aspirin.
Over time Tylenol became a leader in the analgesic market. Before the 1982 “Tylenol scare,” the brand held about 37 percent of the U.S. over-the-counter analgesic market. That dominance was shaken when seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Extra Strength Tylenol capsules that had been tampered with and laced with cyanide. Johnson & Johnson ordered an unprecedented recall of some 31 million bottles, costing the company an estimated $100 million. The scare briefly drove Tylenol’s market share down to single digits, but swift action and the introduction of tamper-resistant packaging helped the brand regain public trust. Until recently, it was known as one of the safest pain relieving drugs on the market.
Now you have a timeline.
If you follow both pages of this time line at the very end you'll see a note with a golden star. This is the place in the timeline when Tylenol is readily available and has been manufactured for the public to consume. Prior to this point in the timeline, Tylenol wasn't a thing. It did not exist. Which leads us to believe that due to the documentation of autism centuries prior to the development and manufacturing of Tylenol, scientifically, statistically, and mathematically speaking there would not be a way that Tylenol could possibly cause autism.
It would be akin to the government stating that shark attacks and ice cream sales both go up in the summer. Therefore shark attacks are caused by eating ice cream. While two facts are true at the same time coincidence, is not causation.
Many people are aware of this and they feel that this new FDA correction by the president and FACT CHECK by the White House is either an attack on women, an attack on autism and those who have it, or simply an attack on the truth.
And the truth is that you're not alone. Many places have denied the new findings and refuse to play into studies that have not been scientifically concluded.
Below are a few (not all) of the medical, scientific, or charitable organizations and experts that are standing up and speaking out on behalf of the autism community, pushing back.
American Psychiatric Association
The APA put out a statement on its Facebook that you can read in its entirety below. They were quoted in saying.
“A strong base of evidence shows that acetaminophen, when taken as directed, is safe for use during pregnancy. Any decisions around a course of treatment should be determined by a patient and their doctor (…) Autism spectrum disorders exist on a spectrum of neurodiversity. The country must focus its resources on expanding access to care and to building the evidence base for future treatments.” (3)
Nature.com
Nature released an article called Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it? (4)
In it they were quoted as saying, “A review of studies published last month in the journal Environmental Health concluded that there is an association. But researchers interviewed by Nature point instead to the contrasting results of a review of high-quality studies on the topic. That review, published in February, concluded that “in utero exposure to acetaminophen is unlikely to confer a clinically important increased risk” of autism spectrum disorder.
Link to article HERE.
American Academy of Pediatrics
“Today’s White House event on autism was filled with dangerous claims and misleading information that sends a confusing message to parents and expecting parents and does a disservice to autistic individuals, ” says AAP in a statement on the White House autism announcement. (5)
They later posted a quote from AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressley to Facebook.
“There is no single root cause of autism and there is no single medication that will give every autistic child or adult what they need.”
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
We were introduced to ASAN when we were just TheExtraSpoon.com when our group of clients and customers and those within our disability networks suggested and then highly voted for them to be our charity of choice for a charity drive and we collectively sent them a great donation! They were graciously accepting and the reason why they were chosen by the community is because they actually put the money towards helping house, home, educate, medically assist, help with basic needs and tasks and they are very loud in lobbying for the rights of those on the spectrum. While certain other seemingly similar organizations tend to skew the education or form questionable opinions and topics, parents of autistic children were more supportive and louder for ASAN than any other organization - and that's because ASAN was louder and more supportive for them. That's why we silently supported each other's missions from that day forward, for all transparency.
That said, their opinion is very important to us when it comes to problems relating to the Spectrum on a global scale as they are made solely of the group that they collectively help, much like the spoon was built. While most organizations and companies have a stake in what happens due to their fiscal responsibilities, organizations like Natural Healthy and ASAN have a stake in it because they are whom it affects. They have the bigger voice and the louder party because it doesn't just affect the constituents, it affects the actual people lobbying for the actual problem. There is no ulterior motive. The goal is the goal, and it affects all of us.
It was no surprise that ASAN released the article, ASAN Condemns Administration’s Rampant Misinformation about Autism, Acetaminophen, and Vaccines; Calls for Respectful, Fact-Based Approach.
They even went as far as to suggest, if not DEMAND, RFK Juniors immediate resignation on Facebook declaring, “ASAN joins members of the Public Health Community in celebrating the courage and integrity of the CDC leadership who choose to take a stand against this administration's irrational and dangerous efforts to undermine our community’s health. We also stand with the American Public Health Association and multiple Senators demanding RFK Jr’s immediate resignation.”
TYLENOL
Tylenol itself must be in a whirlwind right now. As it stands, it took less than 24 hours for ambulance chaser behavior to get lawyers to look for class actions to sue the company based on the findings of RFK. We've seen KP Legal and Free Legal Reviews even stating that they're looking for mothers of children who were born with Autism that took Tylenol while they were pregnant. What this does is take the science and fact out of everything and now everybody is just grabbing for money, except for Tylenol for some reason.
Tylenol came out on Twitter/X stating, “We actually don't recommend that you use any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for your concerns.” (7)
Tylenol doesn't seem concerned.
Maybe it's the fact that on the label they print on every bottle it says, “Do not use while pregnant or breastfeeding unless otherwise instructed by a healthcare professional.” This simple statement passes off all responsibility to the doctor or healthcare professional that suggested you use the Tylenol in the first place. That means we don't have a Tylenol lawsuit, we have a doctor's lawsuit, and we all know how hard it is to sue a doctor.
We suspect different kinds of lawsuits are going to start swinging from one pharmaceutical direction into another and I highly recommend that you stay out of the way and don't sign up for any class actions that you clearly won't win. Some suggest these are actually just collecting data and creating lists of the autistics that are willing to believe the nonsense and none of you want on that list. Watch the ads you click.
With all the grace and tact in the world, Tylenol came out and stated, “The facts remain unchanged over a decade of rigorous research, endorsed by Leading medical professionals, confirm there is no credible evidence linking acetaminophen to autism.”
It would seem the Food and Drug Administration is the only one actively jumping on board to lie for the White House. What does the Food and Drug Administration really do? That's a rabbit hole all on its own for another day.
Luckily, much like Tylenol, World Health officials are pushing back at the lack of science and the utter slaughtering of factual evidence.
Tylenol went on to state, “We prioritize science as the core of how we provide care, and that will never change.”
All of us were really hoping they would have just said, “Nice try. Release the Epstein files.”
Sources:
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Historical Perspectives on Autism: Its Past Record of Discovery and Its Present State of Solipsism, Skepticism, and Sorrowful Suspicion - PEDIATRIC CLINICS - https://www.pediatric.theclinics.com/article/S0031-3955(11)00139-8/fulltext
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Tylenol (drug) - Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/science/Tylenol
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APA Statement on White House Announcement on Autism - Psychiatry.org - https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/news-releases/apa-statement-on-white-house-announcement-on-autis
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Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it? - Nature.com- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02876-1
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) - ASAN Condemns Administration’s Rampant Misinformation about Autism, Acetaminophen, and Vaccines; Calls for Respectful, Fact-Based Approach - https://autisticadvocacy.org/2025/09/asan-condemns-administrations-rampant-misinformation-about-autism-acetaminophen-and-vaccines-calls-for-respectful-fact-based-approach
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FACT CHECK: DID TYLENOL TWEET THAT? -YAHOO!- https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-tylenol-did-tweet-225600981.html
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Tylenol Issues Clarification After White House Resurfaces 2017 Tweet on Usage During Pregnancy - NY Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/us/politics/tylenol-tweet-2017-pregnancy-autism.html