RFK JR dated view of Autism

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Just a few weeks ago I made a post on Autism Acceptance in the past 2 decades. We made a lot of progress but still have a long way to go. This video further cements that. RFK thinks Autism is more of a burden than a blessing and thinks we will forever be a charity case instead of someone who contributes to society. His statements only applies to a small percentage of people on the spectrum. A lot of autstic people do struggle with finding jobs, but most autstic people are able to communicate, use the potty, and go to school (some even finish high school).

As someone who was non verbal until around age 3 I feel like I defeat the odds of what doctors expected my life to turn out. I faced a lot of challenges in my adult years but it's by God's grace that I'm able to live and function in mainstream society.

Someone posted on my Autism Acceptance thread that Autism is more of a disability to a lot of people which I understand, but I met autstic people with higher support needs than I do find jobs, and go on dates.

I'm not saying that raising autstic children is easy, but I know that we can't be so quick to write off special needs people just because of developmental delays. God has put use Aspies /autstics on the Earth for a reason.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests compensating families of some people with autism - says only talking about severe autism

Is this just what you already know about:
https://people.com/rfk-jr-claims-people ... s-11717083
or has he now pushed the boat out further still?

We "won't ever pay taxes." I smell hate mongering. And he's a democrat? Sounds about as left wing as Starmer in the UK.

Funny short video about rfk jr depicted as a kind of mafia don and autism

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2FgiYTKh ... Y3RpdmU%3D

You must FWD to autism news, I'm not opposed to healthy regulations, as an advocate I must say Kennedy is doing great job, may not be so clued up on science but as lawyer getting scientists to replace big pharma profit to make decisions.

The statistics here divide (I hate exact diagnostics but divide ASD 1 vs 3) and determine low functioning rate autism, and exponential growth. I reckon give Kennedy guy a chance this year to see what he can contribute. Other vaccines, I've seeing TB outbreaks, it's so bad here babies vaccinated at birth. But that's vaccines not what put into our food.

Men continuously complaining to get sex on forum, but when Kennedy wants to try fix up there's this defensive resistance.
Mostly on forum is us high functioning but the non-verbal people need a voice to help their families with support, aggressive behaviour.

Despite all my late intelligence, so much held me back from real success, having more friends. I watch my son's and hope life be more more accommodating towards differences.

Yes, autistic people bring better persona, but being healthy is good thing autism or not, I don't see how his moves are that big a problem.

I don't know, I'm not saying he is great but I think he is in a general sense on the right track. I think he holds the overall theory that yes, autism does have a genetic component that can be passed down through the generations. I believe his theory also holds that a myriad of environmental toxics from multiple sources are overwhelming the bodies of all Americans/humans to varying degrees and thus causing through group effort to be behind the large increase in and the severity of autism being diagnosed in America.

I have read articles attributed to him that basically stated that those with a purely genetic form of autism had one thing in common, an above average IQ level. Intellectual development issues were almost unheard of, especially in comparison to the modern day. Today we see more and more of or autistic brethren dealing with developmental, psychological, and physiological disorders and until now we never knew why. Hopefully now the truth can come out. I have read enough of his stuff to believe that while he has his own theories he is willing and open to trusting the science, as long he feels he can trust the research behind the science.

None of us should, quite honestly, trust most of the science from the past decade or so and probably long before. For far too long research has quite honestly been corporations paying big money for favorable, and quite often at least partially faked research in favor of the corporate bottom line financially and legally. Don't think it can happen or does in research? Believe it, especially when there are many , many dollar signs attached that can magically disappear if results are unsatisfactory. I have seen these kinds of lazy researchers, they are everywhere in academia and the private sector. They are able to fake their research because they know the hidden truth about most research, very few people can really understand the statistics behind and supporting their research and most blindly accept as truth that the raw data was really gathered. I have seen first and second hand research that was completely made up in the psychology world and passed on as real. It was always so amazing how their raw data and subsequent results were always so amazingly supportive of their initial hypothesis(sarcasm).

I say give him a chance, he is already starting to have a positive effect. I read that many places across America are voting to remove fluoride from being added to their public water, hopefully eventually getting it removed everywhere. He is getting the food industry to remove and quit using toxic food colorings they have been putting in American market products. He is pushing for open, honest research into autism and its sources and that is a good thing. For too long the truth, whatever that may be in the end, has been knowingly and maliciously suppressed for far too long.

I don't know if anything good will come from anything he does, but the simple reality is we the common person have been treated like cash cows for far too long and at least he seems to actually care. Global corporations have, whether we want to accept it or not, have for many decades colluded to varying degrees to keep at least America in a highly profitable cycle of poor health and illness from birth until death through the generations. Anyone stuck in most healthcare systems see this first hand almost every time they go for medical care. Most times insurance wouldn't cover an expensive procedure or treatment that could cure or save someone, or will at least try, all while happily financing and ever growing myriad of injections they hope you will happily accept without thought.

Will he do or say stupid things? Of course, he is both human and has been known to do and say stupid things in the past. Haven't we all in or past if we are honest with ourselves? Yes for me, on more than one occasion so I cannot judge him or his past, only what he does for me and us now. I think he may in all honesty be the one really positive thing to come in from the new Trump regime.

Whether he personally believes this about us or not he is sending a message that we are normal people trapped inside autism due to poisoning, mutants and not in the good X-Men type of way. He views Autism as an epidemic, a crises. That view of Autism like any crises ends up justifying taking shortcuts and risks in order to cure Autism/Rescue the normal person from the daemon Autism. My view of the consequences of his view of Autism becoming the norm again may be paranoid but there is history to back it up.

I noticed the term “vaccine” was not used probably because the blowback to his anti vaxx stance was becoming too much. That could be Trump’s idea or his, it does not matter. The word medicines was used which in my view is a way of saying vaccines without literally saying the word vaccines.

In the last few days he been trying to separate Autism into the crises kind and the not so bad kind. He even amended the statement that there was no autism when he grew up(which is when I grew up) to there was Aspergers around. Well there likely was the “crises” kind of autism around but we did not see them because they were misdiagnosed, locked up in an institution, or in the attic(Most neighborhoods had a “haunted” house), or dead. Beyond the last sentence on the surface there is nothing wrong, is not Aspergers a politically incorrect way of saying low support needs? Yes it is. What that does not take into account is many who present as level one are a crises or trigger as presenting as level three. It is a way of divide and conquer by exploiting the existing real disagreements within the Autism community. It paints those of us who have the ability to disagree on a outlet like this as selfish, entitled bastards who should shut up, try harder and stop getting in the way of people who actually need help.

The emphasis on environmental poisons means that factors like technology that ret*ds the learning of social skills, and more sensory bombardment that makes people present as more autistic will not be looked at. If we are going to find the cause of autism by September no need to put resources into finding ways to help autistics now, right?(sarcasm)

Regardless of feelings on his message, it is wrong for the government to track people because of their diagnosis and access their private health data without consent, which is what they will be doing to complete this "study"

RFK will put the spotlight on Austism and make it much more likely that people will Google the subject or look at YouTube videos to find out more about it.

Perhaps someone could generate new and useful content in time for people to see it? When the final report comes out.

People tend to immediately discount old content in favor of new, no matter how good the old content.

If we are lucky good content may go "viral" like the ALS ice bucket challenge.

The "Call Me Maybe" video with 1.5Billion hits was put together with hardly any money.

Even though several self advocates are speaking up, I am finding some backlash by long term caregivers who are picking on them. Although they are frustrated, I feel like they are acting very entitled. While I hear where they are coming from, I king of feel like it is not our fault that we have lower support needs.

We need more billionaires like Taylor Swift to make that happen.

Could it be some fault of a rival Nation State?