TORONTO — When U.S. President Donald Trump urged pregnant women to avoid Tylenol because of an unproven belief it can cause autism, Julie Green was brought back to the mom-blaming claims she heard more than a decade ago when her son was diagnosed with the condition.

"It seemed like every couple months there was some new headline. And there was still a lot of like, 'Oh, did mom do this? Did mom do that?' A lot of things were tied to pregnancy. And every now and then you'd brace yourself and you'd think, 'Oh, what did I do?'" said Green, who learned her son had autism when he was three.

"You question absolutely everything," she said from her home in Kingston, Ont.

"It sounds like a very ludicrous example, but I had real meat cravings when I was pregnant. So I ate a lot of McDonald's and i

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