Before the Sept. 22 news conference where President Donald Trump discouraged people from taking Tylenol during pregnancy, Meg Brill and her friends heard an announcement was coming.

“It was lightly joked about in various autistic circles, that they are going to announce something” about a cause for autism, said Brill, of Highland Park .

Now, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revising its website and language surrounding vaccines and autism, three Illinois adults with autism talked about their reaction to the pronouncements.

Brill, 23, said she was 11 or 12 years old when she was diagnosed with autism. She and others with a similar diagnosis spoke about their lives and their thoughts on the White House’s declaration linking acetaminophen – the active ingredient in Tyl

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