Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s comments about autism are part of a long legacy of right-wing politicians deciding which people’s lives are and are not worth living.
It’s highly likely he’s on the spectrum, at least ADHD. He grew up in a family that couldn’t handle mental “illness” because it looked bad to the press and whatever other reasons. So he basically had his problems completely ignored and swept under the rug at various boarding schools along with having a bitter and verbally abusive matriarch. Couple that with drug abuse and the dude never had a chance.
He’s basically “run home”, like preacher’s kid that was a disaster in their youth but then came roaring back full-on God Squad Bible Thumper in their midlife of so.
So he’s just doing the same crap to everyone else that was done to him: you don’t have a real problem, and if you do have a problem, it’s your fault.
Who wants to bet her being half goddan brain dead shook him up as a kid. Like seriously, “visit Aunt Rose, she can’t think properly!” As a kid that would have fucked me.
It’s simple. These people hate autistic kids. Just read his own words. He hates that they are a “tragic burden” on their parents (as if even raising a neurotypical kid is a picnic) and he hates that these kids can’t be exploited the way other children are.
He’s also moron who cannot distinguish the fact that autism is a spectrum that includes hundreds of millions of people who otherwise live fairly normal lives thanks to the innovations that have been developed to help autistic people to adapt to the world in the past 50 years. (You know, since we actually sought to help them instead of throwing them all in an institution and trying to ignore their existence)
Fuck Robert F Kennedy Jr and his worm brained bullshit!
This sounds like hyperbole really. I really hate the guy (and I think I might have ASD) but I don’t think this is helpful. You know, never ascribe to malice what can be explained by ineptitude.
I think, that he thinks, people with autism are either faking, or useless. As in he doesn’t get the “spectrum”. You’re either severely disabled or not autistic.
His comments about people with autism have the whiff of eugenics about them. Most people don’t realise that was an American thing before it was a nazi thing. The next step is sterilising neurodivergent people.
No, I truly believe it’s malice. He, and the anti-vax movement behind him, absolutely despise autistic people. They hate that they have to deal with a non-neurotypical person. Both as parents of non-neurotypicals and in day to day dealings with them. I’ve watched it in action multiple times. And everything coming out of Kennedy’s mouth is identical to what I’ve heard directly from other autistic hating anti-vaxxers.
What’s the deal with this guy and autism?
It’s highly likely he’s on the spectrum, at least ADHD. He grew up in a family that couldn’t handle mental “illness” because it looked bad to the press and whatever other reasons. So he basically had his problems completely ignored and swept under the rug at various boarding schools along with having a bitter and verbally abusive matriarch. Couple that with drug abuse and the dude never had a chance.
He’s basically “run home”, like preacher’s kid that was a disaster in their youth but then came roaring back full-on God Squad Bible Thumper in their midlife of so.
So he’s just doing the same crap to everyone else that was done to him: you don’t have a real problem, and if you do have a problem, it’s your fault.
Was it his sister who was lobotomised?
Ima find it.
Edit: auntie. Sounds like he would have seen her at family things in the 80s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
Who wants to bet her being half goddan brain dead shook him up as a kid. Like seriously, “visit Aunt Rose, she can’t think properly!” As a kid that would have fucked me.
It’s simple. These people hate autistic kids. Just read his own words. He hates that they are a “tragic burden” on their parents (as if even raising a neurotypical kid is a picnic) and he hates that these kids can’t be exploited the way other children are.
He’s also moron who cannot distinguish the fact that autism is a spectrum that includes hundreds of millions of people who otherwise live fairly normal lives thanks to the innovations that have been developed to help autistic people to adapt to the world in the past 50 years. (You know, since we actually sought to help them instead of throwing them all in an institution and trying to ignore their existence)
Fuck Robert F Kennedy Jr and his worm brained bullshit!
This sounds like hyperbole really. I really hate the guy (and I think I might have ASD) but I don’t think this is helpful. You know, never ascribe to malice what can be explained by ineptitude.
I think, that he thinks, people with autism are either faking, or useless. As in he doesn’t get the “spectrum”. You’re either severely disabled or not autistic.
His comments about people with autism have the whiff of eugenics about them. Most people don’t realise that was an American thing before it was a nazi thing. The next step is sterilising neurodivergent people.
No, I truly believe it’s malice. He, and the anti-vax movement behind him, absolutely despise autistic people. They hate that they have to deal with a non-neurotypical person. Both as parents of non-neurotypicals and in day to day dealings with them. I’ve watched it in action multiple times. And everything coming out of Kennedy’s mouth is identical to what I’ve heard directly from other autistic hating anti-vaxxers.
This is so true it took the wind out of me 💀