Three things are true:

1. People seek attention, and often lie to get it.
2. Seeking attention is not unique to GenZ. People screamed for attention in Pompeii and Ancient Greece, leaving graffiti on the walls and yelling arguments at strangers
3. Many symptoms of neurodivergence appear at first glance to be typical to the human condition. This is not a coincidence - neurodivergents are human, and therefore face many of the same problems that neurotypical humans do.

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The reason autism and other disorders are evaluated as a spectrum is because the human condition itself is a spectrum of experience. We are not simple creatures.

The reason people are diagnosed with a disorder is often because they have landed somewhere on the spectrum of human experience that involves an abnormal level of difficulty when faced with “normal” challenges.

Simple or routine tasks, time management, emotional regulation, conversation - humans universally face normal challenges in these areas at times, but neurodivergent individuals face greater challenges at higher frequencies, to the point where it can be classified as a “symptom” because it directly interferes with their life in a way that is not statistically normal - it produces unhealthy levels of stress or emotional instability, impairs social and professional engagements, interferes with their ability to reason or achieve their own desires, etc. etc.

These symptoms can often be managed or treated. Just as often, they can only be coped with.

In short, “invisible” symptoms, masking, misdiagnosis, and societal misunderstandings all contribute to this very common idea that the average neurodivergent is just an attention seeker.

Is it likely that you have come across someone who has incorrectly self-diagnosed? Absolutely. People will lie on the internet. People will lie to your face. People will lie to themselves.

But it is also incredibly likely that you have come across people with severe symptoms that you had absolutely no understanding of. People who have been driven to the brink of suicide because they couldn’t manage their own mind, people who can convince you they are okay but can’t convince themselves.

It’s a goddamn spectrum, and people who can’t function at all belong on it just as much as people who can mask, treat, or cope with their symptoms enough to blend in. You don’t get to write off their existence just because their struggles aren’t obvious to you.

What is false, I stated their is no mechanism to bring fluoride topically back to the teeth where it is effective. You did nothing to refute this.

Besides the fact that flouride is metabolized and delivered to your calcified tissues, where it plays a role in the mineralization of your teeth? And that the mineralization of your teeth is the main mechanism in flouride reducing cavities? It’s false because topical application isn’t the only way flouride reduces cavities.

And we are not talking like anything could be a poison because even relatively small amount of fluoride introduced to the body can be harmful

… The majority of the time natural occuring levels or the levels introduced artificially are not harmful but that is not my point.

Even relatively small amounts can be harmful, so it’s poison? But the majority of time it’s not harmful. So how exactly is it poison?

I don’t care if you claim to visit a wastewater plant or a fertilizer production site. I don’t see the research you’ve done here. I care that you don’t back up your claims with a single shred of evidence. If you want to make a point about how flouridation can be unnecessary, then you have provided some evidence there. Good work. If you want to claim that it’s poison, then provide the evidence for that too.

Go ahead and block me, if you can’t or won’t do that.

There is no evidence ingesting Fluoride, which is a poison, is good for the body. There is no mechanism in the human body to return Fluoride to the teeth topically where it is proven effective once ingested.

This is false. Ingested flouride is distributed to calcified tissues throughout the body, including teeth. In fact, dental flourosis (the actual, clinical symptom of overabsorption of flouride during development) is only possible because of ingestion during early childhood (including before you even have exposed teeth) and even then the symptoms are usually limited to aesthetics.

Fluoride is an avid mineralized tissue seeker. Approximately 99% of all fluoride retained in the human body is found in mineralized tissues, mainly in bone but also in enamel and dentin.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21701189/

The only claim that you backed up with a source is “flouride less effective now that people also get flouride from toothpaste.” Which is not surprising or controversial. You did not provide evidence that it’s poison, or that metabolized flouride is somehow ineffective compared to localized flouride, which would be nonsense. Flouride plays a role in the mineralization of your teeth, and while it might have an antimicrobial effect in your oral bioflora, its primary mechanism is structural and not limited to topical application.

I have seen an unbelievably compelling body of evidence that cigarrettes are poison, and so chemically addictive that no, it’s not a normal choice a person makes. People often “choose” to quit long before they actually manage to quit.

I have not seen a compelling body of evidence that flouride is poison, and you haven’t changed that. And associating it with fertilizers isn’t some gotcha - it’s a byproduct of converting sulfuric acid to phosphoric acid via phosphate-containing minerals, it’s not like we’re extracting it from cow dung.

If heavy metals are being added to tap water as part of the process - which again citation needed - that has nothing to do with the safety of flouride itself and everything to do with the regulations and regulatory bodies that should be in place to prevent that and monitor tap water for concentrations of substances that have been proven to be poisonous when ingested.