HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. incited backlash after questioning why autism is "only happening in young people" during a televised news briefing.
“Have you ever seen anyone…71 years old, with full-blown autism?” Kennedy asked. “Head-banging, nonverbal, non-toilet trained, spinning, toe-walking…these other stereotypical features?”
“Where are these people walking around the mall? You can’t find them,” he said. “They’re not in homes, there are no homes for them, there are no institutions… anybody can look around and see that this is a canard.”
I keep seeing the Forest Gump quote overlayed over him whenever I see one of his posts, “I am not a bright man.”
When I was very, very little, I remember my mom saying that they’re shutting down all of the institutions and she was worried about where they would all go. I didn’t really get what she meant at the time, now I get it.
She’s was a woman though, they don’t get autism. Autism only looks like a nonverbal little (white) boy in an Autism Speaks commercial who can only eat chicken nuggets.
I keep seeing the Forest Gump quote overlayed over him whenever I see one of his posts, “I am not a bright man.”
Also, there very much are older people like this. My mother worked with severe people my entire life. The elder autistic exist.
When I was very, very little, I remember my mom saying that they’re shutting down all of the institutions and she was worried about where they would all go. I didn’t really get what she meant at the time, now I get it.
Nowadays it wouldn’t be as much of a problem as they could all just get senior leadership positions in the Trump administration
Nah, overqualified.
You would think he’d know from his aunt Rosie’s tragic example about how our society puts inconvenient people out of sight.
She’s was a woman though, they don’t get autism. Autism only looks like a nonverbal little (white) boy in an Autism Speaks commercial who can only eat chicken nuggets.