Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s comments about autism are part of a long legacy of right-wing politicians deciding which people’s lives are and are not worth living.
It’s simple. These people hate autistic kids. Just read his own words. He hates that they are a “tragic burden” on their parents (as if even raising a neurotypical kid is a picnic) and he hates that these kids can’t be exploited the way other children are.
He’s also moron who cannot distinguish the fact that autism is a spectrum that includes hundreds of millions of people who otherwise live fairly normal lives thanks to the innovations that have been developed to help autistic people to adapt to the world in the past 50 years. (You know, since we actually sought to help them instead of throwing them all in an institution and trying to ignore their existence)
Fuck Robert F Kennedy Jr and his worm brained bullshit!
This sounds like hyperbole really. I really hate the guy (and I think I might have ASD) but I don’t think this is helpful. You know, never ascribe to malice what can be explained by ineptitude.
I think, that he thinks, people with autism are either faking, or useless. As in he doesn’t get the “spectrum”. You’re either severely disabled or not autistic.
His comments about people with autism have the whiff of eugenics about them. Most people don’t realise that was an American thing before it was a nazi thing. The next step is sterilising neurodivergent people.
It’s simple. These people hate autistic kids. Just read his own words. He hates that they are a “tragic burden” on their parents (as if even raising a neurotypical kid is a picnic) and he hates that these kids can’t be exploited the way other children are.
He’s also moron who cannot distinguish the fact that autism is a spectrum that includes hundreds of millions of people who otherwise live fairly normal lives thanks to the innovations that have been developed to help autistic people to adapt to the world in the past 50 years. (You know, since we actually sought to help them instead of throwing them all in an institution and trying to ignore their existence)
Fuck Robert F Kennedy Jr and his worm brained bullshit!
This sounds like hyperbole really. I really hate the guy (and I think I might have ASD) but I don’t think this is helpful. You know, never ascribe to malice what can be explained by ineptitude.
I think, that he thinks, people with autism are either faking, or useless. As in he doesn’t get the “spectrum”. You’re either severely disabled or not autistic.
His comments about people with autism have the whiff of eugenics about them. Most people don’t realise that was an American thing before it was a nazi thing. The next step is sterilising neurodivergent people.
This is so true it took the wind out of me 💀