RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. incited backlash after questioning why autism is "only happening in young people" during a televised news briefing.
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Coming from Silicon Valley, I can assure RFK, my friends with autism are absolutely crushing it out here.
I look at their homes and families and think “fuck, carve me off a slice of that spectrum.”
All someone on the spectrum needs to be successful is to get a special interest in a lucrative field.
Respectfully, this is a vast oversimplification. There are many successful people on the spectrum in tech, but that doesn't always translate to success or money. Communication is a huge part of a development job and communication with others is usually fraught for autistic people.
That being said, a bunch of folks on the milder end of the spectrum have certainly had great success in the field, myself among them.
communication with others is usually fraught for autistic people.
You should read about the double empathy problem. It has empirical proofs and explain well the issue.
That's great. Thank you very much. Glanced over it and expect I'll go down a rabbit hole there making sure I understand all the related concepts.
No problem. If you deep dive the rabbit hole, you may be interested in this (Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches)
I see now thay my wording wasn't very good. You're correct.