Everything about this is wrong. Most people with autism have jobs. Use toilets. Pay taxes. And Speak more clearly than this gravel-throated man.
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1/2 This was my #1 reason for calling Congress this morning. RFK Jr's comments re autism serve to further stigmatize & infantalize diagnosed people, inhibit people from seeking affirmation via diagnosis, and they're outright false with no scientific basis. #AutismIsNotADisease
apr 17, 2025, 2:17 pm • 21 5 • view
2/2 The way this administration speaks about people it deems are "unproductive" or otherwise useful is alarming, especially in light of 47's request to Bukele for 6 more gulags and desires to incarcerate American citizens.
apr 17, 2025, 2:18 pm • 19 2 • view
"infantilize" typo
apr 17, 2025, 2:47 pm • 3 0 • view
The brain-worm infected heroin addict doesn't realize how stupid he is.
apr 17, 2025, 2:54 pm • 2 0 • view
USA is in a race with the rest of the world! But the USA is racing backward like a demented athlete, in the wrong direction, stumbling and falling! Racing back to the dark ages of ignorance and superstition while the world races forward! Why do Americans allow this? History shall forever question!
apr 17, 2025, 7:05 pm • 9 2 • view
Heh, someone sent me this video while I was literally on my way out the door to take my kid on the spectrum to baseball practice.
apr 17, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 0 • view
He is deliberately f*cking with people because, fundamentally, he totally gets off on pulling the wings off flies. He might not be clinically demented, but to the layperson he's uncomfortably demented-adjacent.
apr 17, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I thought Elon had an autism spectrum diagnosis?
apr 17, 2025, 1:23 pm • 3 0 • view
This is the man who will be overseeing special education.
apr 17, 2025, 1:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Not my autistic kid - a 26YO who is considered fairly high functioning - and not many, many other autistic kids I know personally. I’m not sure how you are defining autistic - it is a vast spectrum
apr 17, 2025, 1:15 pm • 2 0 • view
And to be clear, I’m not agreeing with RFK JR on many of his points
apr 17, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Someone needs to ask him to define autism. He clearly doesn't know anything about it.
apr 17, 2025, 8:48 pm • 15 0 • view
As a vaccine skeptic who agrees that Big Pharma is a problem and vaccines are not as safe and effective as the drug companies keep proclaiming them to be I think RFK Jr. is the worst possible spokesperson for people like me who would like to have some rational discourse on these issues.
apr 17, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 0 • view
This is offensive on every level!
apr 17, 2025, 1:55 pm • 5 1 • view
Reminder to everyone - look up Rosemary Kennedy. An example of how RFK Jr's grandparents treated a family member.
apr 17, 2025, 1:30 pm • 48 8 • view
Excellent point. They were terrible people and created terrible people. Aside from that what kind of poetry would RFK Jr write?
apr 17, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
That example is more an indictment on the scientific ignorance of the time than of Joseph Kennedy. But the generalized ignorance shown by every single member of trump’s administration clearly indicates the path they’re taking our country is not promising.
apr 18, 2025, 2:57 am • 3 0 • view
Depends on perspective. Did every parent run out and lobotomize their children in 1941 ? No. Was Joe Kennedy's decision to lobotomize his child made because of how the child's behavior made Joe feel about himself ? I don't know. I do know a former heroin addict should not set public policy.
apr 18, 2025, 11:31 am • 1 1 • view
Exactly, and it is why the family started the Special Olympics that is very successful!
apr 17, 2025, 2:29 pm • 17 0 • view
The Secretary’s voice sounds they way it does because of a physical disorder. Maybe someone advocating for respect for neurodivergent people might find a different way to express how they’re better humans.
apr 17, 2025, 5:27 pm • 5 0 • view
Someone, PLEASE get him away from a mic.🤦🏻♀️
apr 17, 2025, 2:12 pm • 8 0 • view
He needs to watch the current ‘Survivor’ reality show. There is a girl playing this season that is on the Autism Spectrum. She is smart, talented and is kicking ass in the game.
apr 17, 2025, 2:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Aren’t they all just so heinous?
apr 17, 2025, 4:22 pm • 2 0 • view
My stepson is autistic. He is fluent in four languages and is working on a 5th. This chumbalone can barely speak one.
apr 17, 2025, 7:55 pm • 6 0 • view
As with virtually every social conservative everything he knows about everything is false and it doesn't matter a bit because he was born that way so he can't un-know it, and there is nothing you can say to him about it.
apr 17, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
This is what you get when you put a medically uneducated conspiracy theorist in a position of power. According to the MAGA definition of DEI- totally unqualified but hired anyway. This man with his ideas is a singular weapon of mass destruction.
apr 17, 2025, 2:44 pm • 2 0 • view
It is dangerously immoral (and unscientific) to talk about autistic people as if we are diseased, damaged, broken, or somehow incomplete humans, or to regard autism as a fate worse than death. That framing absolutely needs to stop.
apr 17, 2025, 1:47 pm • 6 3 • view
He’s building the foundation of lies to justify what is to comes next… Just like the Nazis, they’ll be sent to hospitals/camps and they will disappear
apr 17, 2025, 9:37 pm • 2 0 • view
SOOO wrong. Obviously never met an autistic person in his life. This is so dangerous & smacks of eugenics.😡
apr 17, 2025, 1:33 pm • 59 5 • view
100%
apr 17, 2025, 3:09 pm • 6 0 • view
You'd *think* the heroin addict with a brain parasite who looks 90 years old at 70 and eats roadkill for funsies wouldn't be a eugenics proponent, but in this case you'd be wrong.
apr 17, 2025, 9:48 pm • 10 2 • view
Hmm. This is gonna turn into Aktion T4. Fucking psychopaths.
apr 17, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
He is not an authority on anything so whatever comes out of his mouth is bogus. His family must be horrified.
apr 17, 2025, 1:30 pm • 2 0 • view
They’re laying the groundwork for eugenics.
apr 17, 2025, 3:27 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m autistic and I’ve been on at least like 5 dates!
apr 17, 2025, 6:56 pm • 6 0 • view
apr 17, 2025, 4:08 pm • 16 8 • view
My son was born with a level-4 brain bleed in utero. He struggled and it was difficult for him and today he is a thriving 23 year old. He completed high school, has a job he loves, exuberant amount of friends, loves to bowl! He’s loved by everyone he meets! I wouldn’t trade him for the world!!
apr 17, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 1 • view
Probably applies to the autistic people he knows. . . which is NONE. Many of us have interacted with an "autistic" person whether at work, during errands in everyday life, etc.
apr 18, 2025, 6:25 am • 0 0 • view
And then there's Elon......
apr 17, 2025, 5:51 pm • 2 0 • view
How many use heroin or chase their spouses into suicide?
apr 17, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 0 • view
RFKJr is describing a horrible stereotype. Many people who are differently abled are part of normal society and in many cases, the better part of it. His parents must be rolling over in their graves.
apr 17, 2025, 5:08 pm • 2 0 • view
My job is working with people with autism, they are none of that nonsense brainworm boy just spewed. Their lives are full, their parents adore them, they have friends, get married, have jobs, and all were born with autism.
apr 17, 2025, 7:33 pm • 5 2 • view
All we are learning is that everything his cousin Caroline Kennedy said about him and tried to warn us about is absolutely true. He is a rampant conspiracy theorist and hypocrite. He vaccinated his kids and told everyone else not to vaccinate their kids. He has no knowledge, he spews lies. A POS.
apr 17, 2025, 7:14 pm • 103 15 • view
He's projecting his own inadequacies & self-loathing, in part consequences of his experiences (some privileged, some--such as the tragic assassination of his father--terrifying).
apr 17, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Temple Grandin, Mark Zuckerberg, Greta Thunberg, Darryl Hannah, Dan Aykroyd, Satosji Tajiri, a large percentage of people in STEM fields and the arts.
apr 17, 2025, 1:26 pm • 7 1 • view
I’m going to assume this vile person has never actually met a person with autism, much less spent any meaningful time with them.
apr 17, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, Elon claims to have autism. So maybe he's right about the not paying taxes thing. /s
apr 17, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Right on.
apr 18, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
Even if they don't, they are still worthy of life!
apr 17, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Dear God. Is he going to start rounding up autistic individuals? Where does this end? (Don't answer. I know.)
apr 17, 2025, 2:01 pm • 1 0 • view
My nephew is autistic. He has a job and pays taxes. Someone please tell him to watch ‘Love on the Spectrum’ on Netflix. It’s one of the most touching series and one of the few I always binge watch! P.S. The top ‘advisor’ of Doge is also on the spectrum.
apr 17, 2025, 1:24 pm • 8 0 • view
Wow... just, wow. There is too much wrong with RFK's BS here for me to list. The real question is what kind of person actually gives him any credibility at all? WTF is wrong with these people!?
apr 17, 2025, 8:38 pm • 4 1 • view
I would love to see the dialogue script of the first couple dates with rfkjr. Can one of you wits please post it?
apr 18, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
🚨 #ClearAndPresentDANGER 🚨 🚨 THEY WILL KILL US ALL 🚨 🤬 #tRUmp 👹 🤬 #RFKJr 🧟♂️ 🆘 🦠 ☣️ 👩🏼🤝👨🏽👩🏼🤝👨🏽👩🏼🤝👨🏽 💀💀💀 ⚰️ 🆘
apr 17, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 1 • view
Next, round them up and put them in an institution.. maybe in El Salvador?
apr 17, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
My autistic child understands and can spell in multiple different languages without being taught. I'd like to see RFK jr. match that. What can be expected from a person whose grandfather opted to lobotimize his aunt because of perceived developmental delays. Is anyone surprised?
apr 17, 2025, 5:34 pm • 119 14 • view
She was a lifelong patient at the Mendota/Central Colony Wisconsin state mental institute in Madison, WI. Sadly, JFK's sister was Mendota's second most noteworthy patient next to Ed Gein.
apr 17, 2025, 7:10 pm • 3 0 • view
One of the many tragic stories in our history. So sad.
apr 20, 2025, 12:12 pm • 2 0 • view
You can be sure that RFKjr, and his children, have been fully vaccinated. This man is completely nuts, and purposely hired because he IS nuts. Hired by a maniac, and approved by a bunch of cowards in the Great Fascist Party. Hope it's their kids that die first!
apr 17, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Naturally. I went down the RFK jr. rabbit hole. And I'm trying to claw my way back. Stories like the whale head on top of his car, staging a dead bear cub in central park and liquifying live mice... How is this our reality?
apr 30, 2025, 4:24 pm • 2 0 • view
What’s sad is that you had to *search* for stories that should have been front page news.
apr 30, 2025, 5:13 pm • 2 1 • view
💯
apr 30, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly!
apr 17, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
This story needs more attention.
apr 17, 2025, 5:37 pm • 52 1 • view
Agreed
apr 20, 2025, 12:09 pm • 2 0 • view
📌
apr 17, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Many of us had grandparents who did and said and believed terrible things. So yes, we can still be surprised. And horrified.
apr 17, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
My company employs people on the spectrum. They are minor best employees. They actually care about their job. And our senior citizen residents love them.
apr 17, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
So RFK doesn’t think Musk has any intelligence???didn’t go to college?
apr 17, 2025, 8:05 pm • 1 0 • view
. FACTS MATTER !!! And I know of Someone who is on TV series SURVIVOR !!! ⬇️ This is What HUMAN COMPASSION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️ . www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbgX...
apr 17, 2025, 2:58 pm • 7 1 • view
#cherylhines Fuck you and the ignorant trash you call a husband!
apr 17, 2025, 1:18 pm • 2 0 • view
He is building up the conversation to normalize and justify the need for eugenics.
apr 17, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 1 • view
100%
apr 17, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
There's a lot to dislike about Jr and his beliefs and statements, but he can't help his voice. We need to leave that alone.
apr 17, 2025, 7:46 pm • 0 0 • view
His brain...or what drugs and the worm have left behind of his brain...is fair game, tho.
apr 17, 2025, 9:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Absolutely
apr 17, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
My brother is on the autism spectrum. He served in the Navy, and has worked his entire adult life.
apr 17, 2025, 3:27 pm • 2 1 • view
(diagnosed at age thirteen.) i have worked in same government since February 2008(!), attended two of world’s leading universities, paid taxes, been part of two long relationships, have a history in stage performance, have done athletic /sports training from university. … autistic people are people.
apr 17, 2025, 6:14 pm • 5 0 • view
and that is only percentage of my life experience. autistic people are simply people. i think that this old and inimical person has spent a very large party of /^his/ life living off his family’s name via political effect — while doing very little of substance or value for the world and its people.
apr 17, 2025, 6:19 pm • 3 0 • view
There are still many autistic people that don’t and/or can’t do those things, and they still deserve more respect than he’s treating them with right now.
apr 18, 2025, 6:12 am • 3 0 • view
Fun fact- Elon Musk is autistic.
apr 17, 2025, 1:45 pm • 3 0 • view
Retired math teacher here. My most brilliant student had autism. He was able to figure out every problem in his head. He couldn't explain how he found his answer, but he was always correct. My job was to help him communicate and work with peers. He contributed so much to the class. Shame on RFK Jr!
apr 18, 2025, 11:47 am • 9 2 • view
Bingo! 🎯 My sister: trim engineer by trade. Can look at a hide & lay out a pattern to maximize the hide. Custom/prototype work for clients all over the continent for her skills for car/truck/boat upholstery including roll & tuck. Her language & spelling or personal skills? Not so much.
apr 18, 2025, 1:16 pm • 2 0 • view
And any person with autism who needs daily support is OK too.
apr 17, 2025, 11:04 pm • 2 0 • view
The real horror is that we are letting a heroin addict slander and defame other people so that he can grift off of the moral panic of autism.
apr 17, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Wtf is he talking about???
apr 17, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I know he has a physical problem that makes him talk that way. However, because I dislike him so much, his voice is like subway wheels screeching on the rails to me.
apr 17, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
The richest person on earth is autistic.
apr 17, 2025, 2:17 pm • 16 1 • view
Or is he just high on ketamine all the time?
apr 17, 2025, 2:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Hard to know...
apr 17, 2025, 2:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Or so he says. Though I don’t think he pays taxes or could write a poem so that part tracks.
apr 17, 2025, 2:19 pm • 29 1 • view
Very good point. I have autistic twin boys, one nonverbal who is an engineering genius. The other is high functioning, joined his new high school 6 months in to 8th grade and learned 2 school years of Latin in 4 months, becoming top of his class. RFK is not only an idiot, he’s a dangerous one.
apr 17, 2025, 2:24 pm • 40 4 • view
I dont believe him He lies about a lot of things
apr 17, 2025, 10:44 pm • 4 0 • view
Does he pay taxes. Most people under 45 don’t! RFK jr speaks nonsense.
apr 17, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
And none , I’m willing to bet , gather road kill or put a dead bear in city park.
apr 17, 2025, 3:17 pm • 1 0 • view
That can't be right. Elon Musk is doing okay for himself.
apr 17, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Put Elon in an institution
apr 17, 2025, 1:18 pm • 4 0 • view
Another old man stuck in the 80's.
apr 18, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Elon is going to punch you out at the next meeting of Krasnov's Krazy Kabinet.
apr 18, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
Elon is not autistic. He's a very damaged megalomaniac.
apr 18, 2025, 1:37 am • 3 0 • view
He does have Asperger's. But now he's a malignant narcissistic sociopath with a drug problem. Like the FOTUS he bought.
apr 18, 2025, 1:49 am • 2 0 • view
I’ve personally known people with Asperger’s. I don’t believe he has Asperger’s. he thinks it’s cool because Asperger’s people are smart. He’s weird because he’s a very damaged person and narcissistic.
apr 18, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
I also know people with Aspergers. Just because he's developed other personality flaws later in life doesn't mean he isn't autistic. The signs are there.
apr 18, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
I teach in a creative writing program and have read hundreds of poems written by students who are on the spectrum.
apr 17, 2025, 1:14 pm • 15 1 • view
Yes, yes we do.
apr 17, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Clare Danes won a freaking enemy playing a woman with autism who revolutionized her industry. It was, like, in the papers and everything. Maybe Kennedy was still using heroin then and missed it.
apr 17, 2025, 2:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Temple Grandon.
apr 17, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 1 • view
And don't need picture books to run a nation off a cliff.
apr 17, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/leco...
apr 17, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Like RFK uses toilets?
apr 17, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
The autism community will likely not vote for this dumb mother-fucker.
apr 17, 2025, 9:32 pm • 1 0 • view
The cruel ignorance of this man and this administration is truly gobsmacking.
apr 17, 2025, 9:23 pm • 4 1 • view
This incompetent, stupid, immoral excuse for a man does not know anything about autistic people...he is a danger to society and every individual citizen. Now he is appointing people to HHS who practiced med without a license and fleeced people with quack "cures' for autism.
apr 18, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
These people who have the maga cult brain rot disease will never: Know what it is like to have empathy. Understand science. Not be duped by ridiculous lies and propaganda. Enjoy life. We must find a cure before it is too late.
apr 18, 2025, 8:48 am • 9 1 • view
Our country has made so much progress in understanding and APPRECIATING people who are neurodivergent - and then along comes this ignorant monster spewing absolute garbage about them. And he's in the position of authority. It's just beyond belief.
apr 17, 2025, 4:14 pm • 89 11 • view
We have come so far, and we will NEVER go back!!!
apr 17, 2025, 10:53 pm • 1 0 • view
An ignorant science denier in charge of our health! This is incredible! Republicans not only want to destroy our government, they also want to destroy us.
apr 18, 2025, 2:46 am • 10 2 • view
Jack a**🤬
apr 17, 2025, 1:51 pm • 1 0 • view
I am a high functioning Aspie--I have always held a job, paid my taxes and am a productive member of society So, fuck off Bobby
apr 17, 2025, 10:21 pm • 36 3 • view
The US is currently run by idiots
apr 17, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I have two autistic friends who are married and are literally on faculty at Harvard Medical School.
apr 17, 2025, 1:24 pm • 12 2 • view
He’s so stupid
apr 17, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
He does know Elmo Mush is autistic right?
apr 17, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Nepo-baby’s brainworm is overactive.
apr 17, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Musk is autistic. So, RFK Jr may be right. Musk never paid taxes. Regarding going to dates, paid ones count?
apr 17, 2025, 6:05 pm • 7 1 • view
A serial killer like Robert Kennedy jr who killed small animals and preys on women because has little clue how autistic people live.
apr 17, 2025, 5:51 pm • 1 0 • view
He's not saying this garbage out of concern. It's a way to make people who have Autism look like a burden on society.
apr 17, 2025, 5:31 pm • 8 1 • view
WTF is this deranged moron talking about?
apr 17, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Is he talking about Elon?
apr 17, 2025, 1:18 pm • 13 2 • view
He is so wrong I have no words.
apr 17, 2025, 3:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Jaw dropping watching this confused monster.
apr 17, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 1 • view
Listening is so much worse than reading the words. Because he believes it!
apr 17, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m just going to guess that most of them do t eat roadkill either.
apr 17, 2025, 1:14 pm • 8 0 • view
As a grandmother of a 12 year old child on the spectrum, his comments outraged me! My grandson can and will do everything he spewed that people with autism won’t be able to do!😡
apr 17, 2025, 5:49 pm • 6 0 • view
What a vile stupid fucking moron
apr 17, 2025, 1:46 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm in technology and there is a high percentage of people on the spectrum in the profession. A good example of this would be Elon Musk.
apr 17, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Kennedy's voice sounds the way it does because he has spasmodic dysphonia. Kennedy's words sound the way they do because he's an unqualified, uninformed, morally bankrupt jackass.
apr 17, 2025, 3:21 pm • 9 3 • view
Just a heads up he has a condition that makes his voice like that
apr 17, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m pretty sure with you guys in charge they’re gonna pay taxes.
apr 17, 2025, 1:13 pm • 7 0 • view
As someone who has worked in SpEd for over 15 years, mostly with autistic students, he speech infuriated me. It was disappointing, disrespectful, and vile.
apr 17, 2025, 1:26 pm • 15 1 • view
Apparently he's not familiar with the Netflix series 'Love on the Spectrum'. Then again, he's likely not familiar with anything that's real.
apr 17, 2025, 1:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Your heart is in the right place but most autistic people don’t have jobs around 83% or something if I remember right. Most companies don’t want to hire at least noticeably autistic people unless high functioning. Nor do they want to hire people with add. Around half of add people are unemployed.
apr 17, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
It really shouldn’t be that our worth as human beings is being treated as how much value we can produce for capitalists. What about just being able to enjoy life?
apr 17, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Wtf is this asshole talking about? Has he even met someone with autism??? Is this the worm talking or the man??
apr 17, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
He does not possess the knowledge required for this job.
apr 17, 2025, 4:19 pm • 3 0 • view
We knew that going in. Now he just proves it every day he's there. I wonder if Cheryl Hines is embarrassed..
apr 18, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I would predict this is a “no”
apr 18, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Ugh... wtf? How?? How can you not be mortified of you married when he turns out to be this guy?
apr 18, 2025, 4:23 pm • 1 0 • view
There is something deeply wrong with a psycopath.
apr 17, 2025, 1:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes. But even if some cannot, that doesn’t mean their live are any less meaningful than those that can. It just means they need a bit of help. Just like many other people. providing that assistance is the hallmark of a just and civil society.
apr 17, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
May his shame be eternal
apr 17, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Probably because they don't have spasmodic dysphonia. You should try to be less ableist than the ableist you are criticizing.
apr 17, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I received my diagnosis in 76 when the state of Utah institutionalized kids with Autism. I've also worked in Tech for 30+ years and have multiple degrees. Neither I nor my nephew (is Autistic) fit Kennedy's description - we contribute Autism is not a single "thing" it impacts every one differently
apr 17, 2025, 8:16 pm • 10 1 • view
He shames every flag behind him.
apr 17, 2025, 2:21 pm • 7 0 • view
Yes
apr 17, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Late diagnosed Autistic Black woman and student scholar here who also works fulltime. F#CK RFKJ!
apr 17, 2025, 5:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Almost none of them have had part of their brain eaten by a parasitic worm.
apr 18, 2025, 12:39 am • 2 0 • view
Your father, were he alive, would be beside himself with embarrassment at what you have become and the idiocy you blather.
apr 17, 2025, 6:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Well, said Ellen. Proud mother of a son with autism. These children give so much more to this world than any of those Republicans standing with Trump right now. They don’t know hatred,or liying,or racism. my son teaches me something every day. He is the most joyful, perfect person I’ve ever met!FBKJ
apr 17, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
He is awful!
apr 18, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
I’d bet Temple Grandin has some opinions on this. Opinions like “Fuck RFK Jr” is my guess.
apr 17, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Fux him.
apr 17, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
And what’s next? Those of us with Aphantasia overlap the spectrum in a number of areas and I’m sure we’re not the only ones. Is the goal to build the ideal Übermensch? Because that’s been tried and didn’t end well for anyone.
apr 17, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
60yr old autistic woman ✋ mother of two, writer, poet, college graduate, business owner, and lifetime tax payer
apr 17, 2025, 8:46 pm • 128 13 • view
🖤🖤🖤
apr 17, 2025, 11:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Supporters blamed Musk’s Nazi salute on his autism.
apr 17, 2025, 1:58 pm • 4 1 • view
He’s so offensive. And a total crackpot.
apr 17, 2025, 6:26 pm • 3 0 • view
I remember many of the wonderful contributions of the Kennedy clan over the years, but this Jr. guy - same name, not the same. Sad, but scary also with the power he wields.
apr 17, 2025, 7:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, all wrong including no context for his comment that autism is "nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started running autism surveys in children born in 1992”. In 1992, autism was diagnosed very narrowly. By 2022, it was seen as a spectrum (DSM-5) leading to higher detection rates.
apr 17, 2025, 6:19 pm • 4 0 • view
Exactly. The spectrum has expanded, and more kids are being helped at an earlier age. That's a GOOD thing!
apr 17, 2025, 9:33 pm • 3 0 • view
I mean, to be fair he's right about the baseball thing. But I've had to wipe my own ass and paid taxes for 32 years, so it feels like I should be getting a refund...if not on the taxes, for sure on the TP...
apr 17, 2025, 1:20 pm • 3 0 • view
I have a 1st cousin once removed that has Asperger’s, he probably will have to be supervised his entire life but he is a genius in many aspects and very capable
apr 17, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
It sounds like he wants to have kids on the spectrum institutionalized because "he" has decided they won't live a life worth living. Who does he think he is....God? BTW...his definition of being on the spectrum is waaaay off. There is a reason why it's called....ahem....a SPECTRUM!
apr 17, 2025, 9:26 pm • 18 2 • view
These people does not deal well with spectrums. Not gender, not sexuality, not race and not autisme. The only thing they do seem to be able to nuance, is their own crimes.
apr 18, 2025, 6:12 am • 3 0 • view
This "Kennedy" was Trump's last chance to hire a real piece of NewYork. Trump got cheated....there was nothing left in this ones head.....We're laughing at both of the fools...their time is expired.
apr 18, 2025, 8:45 am • 1 0 • view
I'm terrified that what he's really saying is that they can't pay taxes or go on dates if we've eliminated them all through concentration camps. And that's EXACTLY what I think he's saying. Why else would he go on and on about how "useless" we are to them?
apr 17, 2025, 7:36 pm • 19 2 • view
Yeah, when I first heard this comment by him, I thought he was suggesting institutionalizing them...or "putting them away" in some form or fashion. ☹️
apr 17, 2025, 9:30 pm • 6 1 • view
I’m not certain there isn’t something like that lurking beneath his comments
apr 17, 2025, 9:34 pm • 3 0 • view
I felt the pure stickiness of tar the moment I heard his comment about autistic children who were fully functional and then regressed. I felt that cliche of foreboding… this false information and rhetoric need to stop. Where is the 13th Doctor? No sarcasm here.
apr 17, 2025, 10:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Most people with brain worms will not be cabinet members...
apr 17, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
you gotta forgive the brain worms
apr 17, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
You may have read where RFK had a sister named Rosemary and John Kennedy Sr made the decision for her to have a lobotomy to control mood swings. They kept her institutionalized and did not make it aware to the public.
apr 17, 2025, 2:11 pm • 6 0 • view
Oh yes. This part of his family history frightens me, along with the fact that his cousin called him a “predator.”
apr 17, 2025, 2:13 pm • 4 0 • view
It was also due to Rosemary’s perceived “promiscuity”
apr 17, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
And they vote.
apr 17, 2025, 8:48 pm • 40 1 • view
Hell yes they do!! They are better humans than anyone in that regime that has stolen our democracy!!!
apr 17, 2025, 11:39 pm • 9 0 • view
Gravelly throated shit stain with a shit stain of a wife too. We see all of you. This will end.
apr 17, 2025, 4:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Don't be an ableist.
apr 17, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s literally a war on anyone this administration doesn’t like. All out in the open.
apr 18, 2025, 3:57 am • 5 0 • view
Anything he said is an indictment on our system that doesn't provide proper funding for special needs to obtain these skills and not whatever garbage RFK Jr spouts on any given day.
apr 17, 2025, 11:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Their favorite Nazi/billionaire is autistic. moveupaba.com/blog/is-elon...
apr 17, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Temple Gradin might have a thing to say about this.
apr 17, 2025, 1:38 pm • 94 6 • view
👍
apr 17, 2025, 2:34 pm • 8 0 • view
Grandin, but yes for sure. Thinking in Pictures is wild reading.
apr 17, 2025, 2:48 pm • 24 0 • view
You are right. Correcting.
apr 17, 2025, 2:51 pm • 11 0 • view
Very minor typo, cheers!
apr 17, 2025, 3:47 pm • 10 0 • view
It is beyond parody that this man is the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
apr 17, 2025, 4:51 pm • 3 0 • view
This would be funny if this guy wasn’t so fucking dangerous to the health of the American people.
apr 17, 2025, 8:17 pm • 4 0 • view
The man is clearly unwell and will do grave damage to our health care system and people. Stay strong folks, keep up the good work spreading truth and facts.
apr 17, 2025, 2:10 pm • 8 1 • view
RFK daily
apr 17, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
People with autism are more in touch with reality than RFK Jr, too.
apr 17, 2025, 1:43 pm • 6 0 • view
But they will never kill as many children of preventable illnesses and that is the answer we were looking for. * Would also accept 'injure' or 'sicken.'
apr 17, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m so sick and tired of how the MAGAts constantly insult others. They act so righteous while demeaning good and innocent people. I’m done, I don’t listen nor do I believe a single thing they say.
apr 17, 2025, 7:43 pm • 13 2 • view
Many geniuses over the millenniums would have likely been diagnosed with autism.
apr 17, 2025, 3:17 pm • 16 2 • view
Thank you, Ellen.
apr 17, 2025, 3:16 pm • 2 0 • view
OMG, the penguin has a stone. 🥰 I absolutely love all four of these. Excellent crafting!
apr 17, 2025, 8:35 pm • 3 0 • view
And many would never be able to detect someone with autism.
apr 17, 2025, 11:20 pm • 7 0 • view
He’s such a piece of shit and every single person in Congress who voted to confirm should resign.
apr 17, 2025, 3:31 pm • 6 1 • view
cause why talk to any actual experts before piping off, eh Rotting Squash?? Love how he leads with 'never pay taxes'. Hey, know what else 'destroys' children? Unvaxxed measles death. Happening now in Texas. Of course we all know what you did to Samoa. Learn something you dope fiend freakshow.
apr 18, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow! They’ll “never hold a job”…. Already they are marginalizing autistic kids. What a shame! Hitlerian bastards!
apr 17, 2025, 3:12 pm • 10 0 • view
My son is 18, he will probably never hold a job. He can't communicate. He probably will never get married. I've met dozens of other boys like him. It's the norm with classical childhood autism. This whole "spectrum" thing has lumped a bunch of other differences and disorders in with my son.
apr 17, 2025, 4:25 pm • 2 1 • view
I was not supportive of the changes to DSM5. I could understand the reasons for them but from a practical standpoint - what it means to families and people with autism- it’s confusing. I also makes it easier for people like RFK to make these broad generalizations.
apr 18, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah I agree. Clearly when he was quoting numbers he was talking about all people on the spectrum. But when he was talking about impacts he was talking about profoundly disabled kids. I would have called it neuro-diversity, a spectrum of neuro divergence. Nonverbal auttism would fall to one side
apr 18, 2025, 4:21 pm • 1 0 • view
You expressed more clarity in your tweet than he actually knows. I think between his speech and his appearance on Fox, a media expert helped him figure out how to sort of dig himself out of this. “Focus on the nonverbal 25%”
apr 18, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
aspergers in the middle, some children would be just slightly neurodivergent, they might have narrow interests and some sensory issues, perhaps trouble with sarcasm, but they are, certainly not "autistic" in any general sense of the way the word used to be used. Now, as rfk said, perhaps 1 put of 12
apr 18, 2025, 4:24 pm • 2 0 • view
boys in California is being called "autistic" by themselves and their school district. So everybody you talk to thinks they know what autism is. (it's that you like firetrucks I guess).
apr 18, 2025, 4:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Jim. I’m curious. Is your Son able to drive a car?
apr 18, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
No. I suspect he will never be able to. It's not a physical thing, but I can't even imagine it being safe. He can only communicate the most simple requests and can't even say his name on his talker. He'd be screwed if he is ever seperate from us although he now wears a GPS tracker.
apr 18, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
I hate rfk junior, but my opinion is it is a severe disservice to boys like my boy to lump them in with mild disorders and call it the same thing, then act like it isn't a severe profound disability. It is devastating to families and robs individuals of having independent futures. I'm sure my son
apr 17, 2025, 4:28 pm • 5 0 • view
It’s cruel. He knows absolutely nothing about autism - and why the criteria changed to a spectrum. He is unqualified for the job.
apr 17, 2025, 4:31 pm • 3 1 • view
He is unqualified. But in my opinion most of the public has no idea what autism really is. They think it's just being quirky or different or even gifted. He's right about it being a disorder. When it was first named & diagnosed it meant something, a specific thing. Now it is a meaningless term.
apr 17, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Like I said. Not a fan. But I just YouTubed his entire recent talk and it sounds like he knows a lot. I once went to an infectious disease specialist for a horse fly bite that took months to heal. We talked about my son. He said that what he reads about autism sure seems like it has a viral
apr 17, 2025, 5:49 pm • 0 0 • view
It sounds like he knows a lot, but If you ask his whole Kennedy family (siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles, 2nd aunts and uncles, 2nd cousins), they’ll all tell you he’s a crackpot idiot.
apr 18, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
Look how many children in Texas are dying of measles because of his original vaccine misinformation and denial. Be careful what you believe in that guy. Seek professional consultation before you take his word for anything about autism.
apr 18, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
cause. (not a chemical) as the epidemic seems to be spreading like a virus would. This was at least ten years ago. And what he said is my experience and dozens of others I have met. It devestates families, many marriages break up. Parents are getting bitten on a daily basis. Many of these boys are
apr 17, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Just exactly like he described. Never date, never communicate, no playing baseball, no reading, banging heads, need help toileting, zero independence. And many like my son hit every developmental milestone until around 15 months, then abruptly lost everything. So, he's spot on accurate, at least
apr 17, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
about what happens. As a society we have been telling ourselves stories about autism, that at least for kids and families dealing with classic autism, are not even remotely true. There is nothing positive about what happened to my boy. And nothing positive about how the system has treated it.
apr 17, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
would do anything to not have this cursed disability. I'm sure people with mild neurological differences feel the opposite.
apr 17, 2025, 4:31 pm • 6 0 • view
All these people are Eugenics supporters.
apr 18, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
He shouldn't talk about Elon this way.
apr 17, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Silicone Valley workers have a high incidence of Autism spectrum disorders.
apr 17, 2025, 1:15 pm • 3 0 • view
My friend's autistic nine year old daughter read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence and understood it better than those who her parents voted for, trump & co.
apr 17, 2025, 1:19 pm • 21 2 • view
Amen!
apr 17, 2025, 2:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Well what would you expect from a Brain that has been thru Worm infestation, Heroin addiction and who knows what else.
apr 17, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
ADOS-2 has been a great contributor to increased Autism diagnosis, maybe industrial processed food too.. Hard to say about the chicken and the egg
apr 17, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I have a family next door who have six kids, 4 of which are on the autistic spectrum - to be honest they seem like normal kids to me - polite, lucid, funny, if not a little excitable. I remember worse kids 50 years ago who had no such labels but received no specific care. We have moved on.
apr 17, 2025, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
He is creepy AF. Ugh
apr 17, 2025, 5:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Who could have guessed he wouldn't be great at this
apr 17, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I would guess Elon is on the spectrum and they think he’s amazing!!
apr 17, 2025, 1:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Also people aren't buzzing little worker bees whose humanity is decided by how much they produce
apr 17, 2025, 1:27 pm • 2 1 • view
And are more intelligent than him.
apr 17, 2025, 8:06 pm • 4 0 • view
RFK thinks all are non-verbal, head banging rhythmically against the wall. I'm on the spectrum, elderly. It wasn't diagnosed way back when. Too bad. It would've been helpful to have realistic expectations. Good at budget planning, bad at diplomacy. Good at growing trees, not good at group childcare.
apr 18, 2025, 7:44 pm • 1 0 • view
If anyone wants to know where he gets these ideas; his grandparents had his aunt lobotomized and put in an institution because of her intellectual disabilities.
apr 17, 2025, 5:04 pm • 3 0 • view
What an offensive comment! He does not belong in his position. Ignorant man
apr 17, 2025, 7:53 pm • 4 0 • view
This is SO FUCKED UP!!!!!
apr 17, 2025, 4:08 pm • 3 0 • view
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apr 17, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Now they are going to attack the Autism community? These vile disgusting twisted NAZI's have no shame or humanity at all. They will take any problem or issue and destroy anything good about it and hurt Americans.
apr 17, 2025, 2:33 pm • 6 1 • view
It sounds like JFK Jr has HPV on his vocal chords. HPV is a leading cause of throat cancer.
apr 20, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
RFK Jr can fuck right off. Also, Gates, Zuckerberg, Musk, et al. are on the spectrum. They seem successful. Also who cares? Tell me this guy and Trump, and (especially) Vance aren't straight-up eugenicists. RFK Jr has no real accomplishments, just a famous last name.
apr 17, 2025, 1:23 pm • 9 2 • view
“Gravel throated” is being far too kind. He looks and sounds like he was brought back from the dead by an incompetent warlock.
apr 18, 2025, 10:25 am • 5 1 • view
Correction: gravel-throated nazi.
apr 17, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
90% Of Genius Level People Have Forms Of Autism, So RFK Jr Is An IMBECILE.
apr 17, 2025, 1:14 pm • 14 1 • view
Compensatory Cognitive Ability is kind of a superpower.
apr 17, 2025, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Rfk needs the 2ndA remedy. Along with the entire cabinet & eo.
apr 17, 2025, 4:04 pm • 1 0 • view
He doesn't understand what he is talking absolut!😈
apr 17, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m no fan of RFK. But he speaks the way he does because of a neurologic condition called spasmodic dysphonia.
apr 17, 2025, 8:44 pm • 5 0 • view
His self reporting is actually hilarious He basically told the entire world he’s never had a real job and he doesn’t pay taxes The IRS needs to investigate his dumbass IMMEDIATELY
apr 17, 2025, 4:50 pm • 2 0 • view
The pay taxes part. It’s completely false and clearly pointed out to equate worth with productivity. No worth = disposable. This man is disgusting.
apr 17, 2025, 5:59 pm • 8 2 • view
Rhodes Scholar and an amazing young man, who has autism. sc.edu/study/colleg...
apr 17, 2025, 2:22 pm • 7 1 • view
His family created Special Olympics. Sounds more like he's describing Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Tax the billionaires, fund healthcare and Special Olympics. My special needs son brings more to the table than all of these billionaires put together. Here's him winning his Unified district tournament.
apr 17, 2025, 1:51 pm • 17 0 • view
That was the Shivers, his aunt & uncle. Clealry RFK Jr came from the shallow end of the Kennedy gene pool.
apr 17, 2025, 2:07 pm • 5 0 • view
Can this guy spell autism? He definitely never saw anyone with autism.
apr 17, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
This is just straight up lies. I wish every autistic person holding jobs and in professions and in higher education and in meaningful relationships would storm JFK’s fantasy castle or idiots and show him how wrong he is. In the meantime we should ALL be shouting him down and defying his lies!
apr 17, 2025, 8:00 pm • 4 0 • view
Most people with autism aren't former heroine addicts either. This POS is worthless.
apr 18, 2025, 5:18 am • 1 1 • view
I do know this much, my 28 year old daughter is Autistic and I can definitely understand what she says better than RKF JR. He is a disgrace to his family
apr 17, 2025, 7:54 pm • 11 0 • view
Agreed
apr 17, 2025, 8:08 pm • 2 0 • view