{"id":18800,"date":"2017-03-27T07:35:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T11:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=18800"},"modified":"2017-03-27T07:35:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T11:35:15","slug":"sad-sign-of-the-times-sesame-streets-newest-muppet-has-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=18800","title":{"rendered":"SAD SIGN OF THE TIMES: SESAME STREET\u2019S NEWEST MUPPET HAS AUTISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-155191\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-24_15-57-28.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-24_15-57-28.jpg 560w, http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-24_15-57-28-300x185.jpg 300w\" alt=\"2017-03-24_15-57-28\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you live in America, you are now living in a country where we are told autism afflicts an astonishing 1 in 68 children, and specifically for males it\u2019s 1 in 42. By comparison it was 1 in 10,000 back in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>What that means is, if you take a walk down your street and knock on every door, you\u2019re probably going to find a kid with autism. Autism is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere including Sesame Street. Call it predictive programming, but the popular puppet-based kids show on PBS now features a new muppet Julia who has autism.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently they\u2019re excited about four-year-olds with autism:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re excited to announce a new friend joining us on Sesame Street! She\u2019s Julia, a 4-year-old with autism! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SeeAmazing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SeeAmazing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xDS3x2a5za\">pic.twitter.com\/xDS3x2a5za<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sesamestreet\/status\/843825051027890176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course, that won\u2019t stop Sesame Street from pushing vaccines on little Julia \u2014<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZpOHIzkLP-g?ecver=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 because as we all know, the government says vaccines are totally safe and effective and do not cause autism (ahem, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/the-amish-dont-get-vaccinated-and-they-rarely-get-autism-cancer-or-heart-disease-coincidence_012017\" target=\"_blank\">cough<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/2016-health-study-on-vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated-children-pulled-from-publication-after-it-found-vaxxed-kids-more-likely-to-get-autism_122016\" target=\"_blank\">cough<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/bombshell-cdc-commits-new-vaccine-autism-crime-wont-allow-whistleblower-to-testify_102016\" target=\"_blank\">cough<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/bombshell-cdc-whistleblower-who-admitted-covering-up-mmr-vaccine-links-to-autism-granted-immunity-will-testify_022015\" target=\"_blank\">cough<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/boom-texas-prosecutor-on-video-vaccines-cause-autism_082016\" target=\"_blank\">cough<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/sad-sign-of-the-times-sesame-streets-newest-muppet-has-autism_032017\">http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/sad-sign-of-the-times-sesame-streets-newest-muppet-has-autism_032017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}