RFK Jr., others need a better understanding of autism

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By Aly Bernhisel / For The Herald

Autism has been in the news lately, largely due to recent comments and decisions from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services secretary. As a mom of an autistic kid, I feel compelled to respond to a recent interview of his by first sharing some thoughts on why autism is a topic that must be approached with extraordinary care:

• Autism is a complex, emotional topic. It’s one that deserves to be approached with care and listening and understanding because it impacts infinitely worthy and valuable humans who are navigating a world that, in various ways and to various degrees, doesn’t adequately understand and value them.

• Autism also deserves this care because of how big and diverse its tent is.

It’s true that no kid or adult with autism is the same, and that the impacts of autism can be beautiful and joyful and also scary and hard. Acknowledging autism’s impacts includes hearing perspectives like this one from a mom of an autistic boy with significant support needs who recently wrote that she would “take away” her son’s autism “in a heartbeat. … And until you’ve watched your child injure their own body or lay awake at night wondering who will care for them after you die,” she wrote, “you don’t get a say in that one.”

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-rfk-jr-others-need-a-better-understanding-of-autism/

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1. RFKjr could not care less about autism.

He is mentally ill, paranoid, psychotic.
He is obsessed with conspiracy theories.

And focused on harming people, as many as he can.

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3. THANK YOU

it's some kind of sick obsession with him but he seriously doesn't give a fuck about ANYONE, it's all just conspiracy garbage

this man in real life would not be qualified for ANY job

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4. it is hard to imagine what job he would be qualified for.

He is so mentally ill that he should never have a job with responsibility for other people.

And I for one do not believe he is clean and sober.
He is still using something.

[Skittles]

5. you know it

I read where he said he feels sorry for anyone having to listen to him, because of his voice disorder..........DUDE, it's not how you sound that is the problem, IT'S WHAT YOUR"RE FUCKING SAYING

[Irish_Dem]

6. It's the content which is hard to hear.

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2. John Oliver totally called out RFK Jr. for his comments on autism.

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