Is it really 2025 or is it 1955?
I am not being hyperbolic. The Make America Healthy Again, is great on paper, but it comes at politically assaulting innocent Americans who are disabled without intention, and unlike other disabilities, the ones on the spectrum are in Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s mind to not exist.
I don’t fucking care if his father or uncle was assassinated or his disorder that causes his raspy voice to be a cover for his overt ableism. It’s not an excuse! To deny he’s a fucking crackpot is merely naive and denying the reality that many of us are trying to do, to exist and be contributing members of society, that Uncle Government wants to get in the way in the name of policing winners and losers.
And if you’re using the Googles to find answers, you’ll be pleasantly surprised that RFK Jr’s assault on autistics isn’t just new, but completely crackpot. This discovery comes on the heels he believes SSRI meds create mass shooters earlier in the month/late January
NBC News had an article on him and some surprising facts about his father in his last years of serving the people.
As the head of HHS, Kennedy would hold massive sway on the direction of health policy in the United States. He would lead a number of agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. President Donald Trump’s pick for the CDC, former Rep. David Weldon of Florida, is further fueling fears because of his own statements doubting vaccine safety.
If you get your world view on podcasts… well just in case you aren’t reading…
“I bet you’ve never met anybody with full-blown autism your age,” Kennedy told podcaster Joe Rogan in 2023, launching into a script he often uses in public appearances. “You know, head-banging, football helmet on, nontoilet [sic] trained, nonverbal. I mean, I’ve never met anybody like that at my age, but in my kids’ age now, one in every 34 kids has autism. And half of those are full blown.”
However, people with developmental disabilities were for decades institutionalized — and, in Nazi Germany, worse — or otherwise kept out of the public eye, a far cry from the integrated schools many public systems attempt to achieve today.
The practice of institutionalizing children with disabilities was particularly prevalent in post-war America, and often in facilities with poor conditions.
One example of the gap between public understanding of kids with disabilities came in 1965, when Kennedy was about 11 years old. His father, then a U.S. senator from New York, denounced the treacherous conditions at Willowbrook State School. In one of the most shameful exposés in U.S. history, disabled children were found to be living in filth, amid abuse and overall horrific conditions, sparking nationwide outrage.
“I think all of us are at fault and I think it’s just long overdue that something be done about it,” Robert F. Kennedy Sr. said at the time of Willowbrook.
NBC News quotes an ASAN advocate saying if you look at the video, this is where they were when RFK Jr “never met anyone”
The Willowbrook saga was actually reported by a little known man known as Geraldo Rivera, who was at WABC-TV at the time, and this reporting gained attention, and it wasn’t after Geraldo’s reporting that it got more attention, likely to Jr’s daddy to do something.
But this gets even worse. Fact Check posted this in 2023, because…there’s a only a few American young men at the construction site, we need to find a scapegoat… what is with that 1 in 22 MEN?
In a June 5 [, 2023] SiriusXM town hall, Kennedy, who is 69 years old, told radio and TV host Michael Smerconish: “I have never in my life seen a man my age with full-blown autism, not once. Where are these men? One out of every 22 men who are walking around the mall with helmets on, who are non-toilet-trained, nonverbal, stimming, toe-walking, hand-flapping. I’ve never seen it.”
It was only a matter of if not when the assault to gender with ASD would come out of the woodwork. In the early days of this blog, I had a theme called “War on Boys”. Given how Kennedy doesn’t include millennial aged autistics, but focuses on 1997 born after, that the obsession towards male adult autistics would become such.
Autism is the only developmental disorder that has a gender bias and gender stigma, long before the Red Pill and other feminist biases. Try walking in my shoes for almost 4 decades and get back to me!
More from FactChect-dot-org:
It took until 1980 for autism to be established as its own DSM diagnosis. The definition of autism broadened in the 1980s and 1990s, leading to a greater proportion of children meeting the definition. There’s also evidence people have been increasingly diagnosed with autism when they previously would have received a different diagnosis.
The newer definitions allowed more flexibility in which criteria people needed to meet to get a diagnosis. To receive an autism diagnosis under the 1980 DSM criteria, for instance, a person needed to show all of the following characteristics: “pervasive lack of responsiveness to other people,” “gross deficits in language development” including “peculiar speech patterns” in those who could speak, and “bizarre responses to various aspects of the environment.”
By 1987, someone would need to just show eight out of 16 possible characteristics, allowing for a broader range of autism manifestations. For instance, someone with good verbal ability could still get an autism diagnosis if showing an impairment in nonverbal communication or imaginative activities, along with meeting some combination of other criteria.
Kennedy told Smerconish at the SiriusXM town hall: “If the autism epidemic was an artifact … of new changing diagnostic criteria or better recognition, you would see it in all age groups.” But medical and governmental recommendations and policies encouraged diagnosis in younger generations without providing similar pathways or incentives for those who were already adults to get diagnosed.
In 1990, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act established autism as a named disability for which appropriate services must be provided by public school educators. In 2006, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended routine autism screening for toddlers. And in the 2000s and 2010s, all 50 states mandated that some insurance plans cover behavioral therapies for autistic children.
Further, a diagnostic requirement is that the person had symptoms in early life, but adults may not have access to information on their early characteristics.
There’s more on how he conflates correlation to causation “beginning in 1989”, but that isn’t worth the time. RFK Jr is a malignant narcissist to be generous, a sociopath at it’s highest. He has more sympathy to the toxic Special Needs Boy Moms than the actual kids who are trying to live. He writes us off as if every one has “full blown autism” (whatever the fuck that means!) and don’t forget all mass shooters are on actively on SSRIs.
Actually last week, the New York Post of all publications actually had more sense in an opinion piece (the comments section on the other hand was the polar opposite)
Autism wasn’t even a separate diagnosis from schizophrenia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders until 1980, the year Kennedy said the affliction began rising.
Before 1991, the federal government lumped children with autism in with other “intellectual disabilities.” In 1994, the definition of autism included Asperger syndrome and children on the milder end of the spectrum.
Researchers didn’t start trying to track autism until 2000. It wasn’t until 2006 that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended screening all children for autism during routine pediatrician visits in the first two years, and many still did not.
It wasn’t until 2013 that present guidelines were instituted.
Even now, there’s no objective test for autism — no blood test, say — for diagnosis. So the prevalence of autism has varied greatly between states, which points to different levels of awareness and testing.
States like Rhode Island and Maryland have higher percentages than Louisiana and Texas.
This won’t be the last about this asshole to put it mildly.
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