[DugwayDuke]

“Because of my family’s commitment to these issues, I spent 200 hours at Wassaic Home for the Retarded when I was in high school,” Kennedy said, referencing the Wassaic State School for the Mentally Retarded in Wassaic, New York.

“So I was seeing people with intellectual disabilities all the time. I never saw anybody with autism.”

So, as a teenager RFK was qualified to diagnose autism?

[hoosierham]

Experience not age .

[BobL]

“So, as a teenager RFK was qualified to diagnose autism?”

Likely not, but I suspect that he was capable of reading their diagnoses that others had prepared.

[FreeReign]

“Because of my family’s commitment to these issues, I spent 200 hours at Wassaic Home for the Retarded when I was in high school,” Kennedy said, referencing the Wassaic State School for the Mentally Retarded in Wassaic, New York. “So I was seeing people with intellectual disabilities all the time. I never saw anybody with autism.”

So, as a teenager RFK was qualified to diagnose autism?

You say that as if the patients at Wassaic weren't diagnosed by professionals and that RFK Jr. didn't have access to those diagnoses.

[Harpotoo]

He’s on the spectrum;-)

[Vaduz]

I don’t recall where but I read that everyone has autism but to a different degree?.

I do know many have worse things now days.