If your kid gets diagnosed with autism they get a government disability check every month.
Subsidize something and you get more of it.
He said SOME autistic children will never write poems. They found one autistic child that wrote poems. They did not disprove his statement.
It destroyed my aunt her son is 45 yrs old living in a group home he can’t speak one word the state takes care of him it’s sad every week she goes and visits him he knows who she is but he can’t say a word he’s severely autistic
Since when did politicians like RFK, Jr. become doctors and medical experts?
The only policy that will work in the long run is GETTING GOV’T OUT OF unconstitutional commandeering of healthcare. There will ALWAYS be corruption and death from gov’t healthcare.
Dang man, people need to fight for their own survival against this utter and illegal nonsense instead of lying down like cattle at the slaughterhouse.
The key to science is controls for some subjects.
I would imagine that autism is almost unheard of in the Amish and Mennonite communities.
If that is correct that gives us a starting point.
As can be expected from the AP this is a hit piece on RFK and the Trump administration.
The following statement:
“Doctors and medical experts have attributed the rise in autism cases — about 1 in 31 U.S. kids are now diagnosed with it — to increased awareness, especially around milder forms of the disorder.”
Increased awareness accounts for at most 1/3 of the rise in autism, some studies put it closer to 20%. The rise would not be continuing after 30 years because it’s well known in school screening programs. It should be at a plateau but it’s not.
I’ve studied the vaccine link and there is no evidence to link vaccines to autism because it has not been properly studied. If you don’t want to find something and you’re not willing to look (”settled science”) then you’re not going to find it.
It is a definite possibility in cases of regressive autism, where a child has normal development and then backslides. Too many parents say that specifically the MMR shot caused backsliding.
Then comes the parent who says:
“I don’t appreciate people presenting themselves as experts when they don’t know a damn thing about something,”
It’s not Kennedy’s job to know all about autism. His job is to find the researchers who do know about autism to find an answer. That’s what an executive does.
This piece is an obvious hit job.
The “Spectrum” now includes so many things. For example, kids once considered to be retarded or mentally challenged are now on the autism spectrum.
They already know what causes it. They just want to control the bloodthirsty millions who will be coming for them when they admit it.
they used to be called severely mentally retarded and were taken care of in state residences. Some are terribly destructive and abusive. I know of 2 families where the parent who cared for the child and the child were killed in a murder suicide.
These are tough situations.
there was a reason the states all built homes for these kids.
Some worry, too, that Kennedy has spent years suggesting that vaccines might cause autism, despite decades of scientific research showing no such link.
Sure, AssPress ... provide a link to those studies. I bet they are BigPharma paid for *studies*.
Every now and then I get on r/regretfulparents on reddit and read their stories. A lot of those parents are of autistic children.
Their common complaint is not being able to bond with the child.
Other complaints are how destructive or violent the child is.
Many claim the child is destroying their marriage in that they spend so much time for the child’s needs they have no time for each other.
There is a whole spectrum of autism. Some are not potty trained, others lead normal lives. The paper finds a couple of high functioning people with autism to bash Musk. Gets old. Very old.
The increased rates of autism are startling.
Stupid article. Autism is a HUGE spectrum and some families only need minor adjustments to help their child succeed, while other families must deal with children who function at the level of a 3 year old for the rest of their lives.
I applaud any research into WHY autism has exploded (and it’s not just from people getting SS disability for being on the spectrum). Go to any school and you will see that cases of autism used to be able to be counted on one hand… now it’s rampant!
“It’d be like standing up and saying you’re going to have the cure for cancer...”
Which Joe Biden did.
Paging Elon Musk on the Tesla courtesy phone!
Does Kennedy know there are different degrees of autism? That statement shows he is no expert about autism. Many autistic children and adults go on to live productive lives. It is similar to "downs syndrome" and the degree of the affliction. Some are almost catatonic, others live full-filling lives. Sheesh.
Does Emory & her mother not understand what the word some means? Do they also not understand that the degree of Autism in not the same with each person afflict with Autism?
I believe that at the very start of the article it states that RFK said “some” autistic children, not all of them.
There’s such a huge gap between autistic people who do not speak, and have major functional difficulties, and someone who is “high functioning”, and can talk to you intelligently about what their difficulties are and how they cope with them. I think RFK Junior is talking about the least functional people on the spectrum.