After Trump’s unproven Tylenol claims, Canadian parents of children with autism fear they’re going to be blamed – CTV
September 23, 2025
When Christina Collura’s son, Luca, was 3 years old, she received confirmation that her little boy was on the spectrum.
“It was a bit of a shock in the sense of, ‘what now’? But my thought process automatically turned to not what he can’t do, but what he can do, and how we’re going to help him. And it’s going to be a beautiful journey,” shares Collura.
That beautiful journey took a detour this week, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that pregnant women shouldn’t take Tylenol, linking acetaminophen to autism.
Speaking to CTV National News, the mother of two shared her anger, “I’m literally shaking as I’m talking about it. It’s crazy to think we’re going to be creating stigmas against moms,” says Collura. She went on to share her fear that mothers are now going to be asked, “What did you do when you were pregnant? What did you do to cause your child to have autism?”
The president of the Ontario Autism Coalition, Alina Cameron, who’s also an epidemiologist, believes the Trump administration’s claim is reckless and lacks merit.
“My concern is that mothers are going to start blaming themselves, and that simply isn’t right,” says Cameron.
