Autism community fears RFK Jr. would set back decades of progress
Autism community fears RFK Jr. would set back decades of progress
Advocates worry that as HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undermine years of work to unlink autism and vaccines and divert precious research dollars to a discredited theory.
Would disabled people also be considered to be part of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion? Don't we offer support for autistic and neuro-divergant individuals in the work place?
The sad thing is, as health in America falls further by the way side, because it hasn't been good for a long time (see the obesity chart below), than more people will become excluded under this anti-DEI policy. If you have any needs or support requirements then they will be considered a weakness against your 'merit'.
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity-adult-17-18/obesity-adult.htm
Btw, we only know this because the CDC published it. Hope that doesn't stop happening 😬
The actions taken by this government seem to come from philosophies of individualism such as comparing and judging the 'merit' of two or more people, or the desire to shut down supportive welfare services creating an 'each man for himself' type environment. This reveals the mind of the people behind the policy who clearly prioritise their own individual needs and desires over others, and to justify it, they want everyone else to do the same.
But being that small minded is not possible for some. Some people cant help but worry about the welfare of the whole planet, everyone on it and future generations.
A good leader never stops wondering if all the needs of their people are being met. A wide sense and awareness of humanity is needed that extends beyond the bounds of the individual's genetic or cultural sphere.
Even Nationalism is no longer viable because we have global issues like climate change. An 'America first' attitude is an Earth last attitude. I know geography is hard, bear with me, but Earth is an important ally for national security! 😉
Here here. I have long taken solace in that fact. Any society built around that would fail, human beings don't work like that. We form communities to take care and better each other.
Fears? How about "knows" it will be set back. Fuck this motherfucking timeline. Get me off! Seriously, someone please get me off so I can feel relieved.
That's not sexual either even though it really, really sounds like it.
I mean a little sexual distraction from all of this misery probably would leave you feeling relieved.
RFK's voice is concerning, I've heard injecting bleach is good for that.
Just buckets of it. You really gotta go to town. Scientists hate when I say this, RFK, so they're probably just huge pussies who can't take it like you can.
I’m am so fucking furious that Harris got 6 million less votes than Biden.
Sure, she was a terrible candidate, but how in the world did Trump not motivate people to vote for her?
Those 6 million people had to be afraid of what was coming, right? I thought Trump motivated people to vote for Biden. I sure as shit didn’t vote for him with any enthusiasm. I was personally terrified that he’d have a mental decline and hand everything back to Trump, and, well, that’s exactly what happened.
It all just blows my mind.
Maybe after the world burns down and the people of the future build the next Rome, they’ll use some examples from all of this.
I doubt it though. They’d get it perfect and some cult would spring up and shoot it to shit again. I swear it’s hard not to be a nihilist when humanity just goes in circles. For every 100 decent people there’s one monster who crushes them all because he never thinks about what other people might go through. He only thinks about himself and everyone else pays for it.
I’m also angry as shit that all of the people who stormed the capitol are just off the hook. A few days before they were pardoned my uncle was saying, “He won’t pardon them all. They’ll look at it case by case.” I said, “ok, when he pardons them all I hope that you hear what I’m saying when I say his ego is bigger than his interest in making our country better. I would bet my balls on the fact that it will be a blanket pardon.”
“We’ll, they’ve got this woman who was talking about looking case by case on Fox the other day…”
“They’re lying. He’ll pardon them all.” I said.
He and I will be working together this week. I bet he justifies it. Maybe not, but it’s too late now anyway. The damage is done, is being done, and will not stand a chance of being undone in my lifetime.
Sorry for this. My brain just hurts. I worry for all of these people who will have their lives ripped apart. It just sucks.
people really do hate women
I do believe that’s part of it, which kind of bums me out that we didn’t have a primary vs Trump.
Oh well.
I definitely want to hear an update on this lol
We talked today but he didn’t bring it up.
Tuesday we’re supposed be repairing plumbing somewhere so I’ll bring it up if he don’t.
She could have got those votes if she had shown any kind of backbone on israel. Depite how the media and all of those corrupt people try to spin it. The majority of the silent majority can see that situation for what it really is. She came out the day before election day saying she would put a end to it and it was way too late.
Edit: Where in my statement did I say I didn't vote for her? I voted for her but ignoring why a lot of people didn't won't help. Not acknowledging how badly she handled the situation is kinda stupid.
Single issue voting is stupid. You've destroyed your country because of it. Congrats I guess? Have fun trying not to die?
Yeah, you showed her now! Bravo, well done! Gaza will finally prosper with trump back in power.
/s
She showed backbone relative to the alternative, which helps you make a choice between the two.
First past the post is the worst: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
They keep trying to get the moderate vote for the same reason they are so baffled why people see luigi as a hero. They are clueless.
At the end of the day saying vote for me because the other guy's worse is never going to inspire voters. Elections about getting people to vote for you. It's as simple as that, you have to sell people on you. They have to vote for you. That's an incontrovertible rule of politics that will never be overcome and the Democrats don't fucking understand it.
she was a terrible candidate, but how in the world did Trump not motivate people to vote for her?
Easy, as you said: she was a terrible candidate
They wanted to get that first woman "status quo" president again. It lost them more votes than it won. I can't believe they didn't even have another round of primaries.
When they shut out bernie they really fucked the party. This timeline is their fault as much as anyone else's.
You’re goddamn right about that. I have voted for Bernie every time I could.
In the beginning of the last primary when he had that lead for like a week, I was so happy that I cried every time I heard “front runner Bernie Sanders”.
Dems are controlled opposition and everyone knows it.
I still vote for them, at least until a better alternative comes along. But we have to build better systems because the establishment will not save us.
will not stand a chance of being undone in my lifetime
I feel that in my bones. There's so much backward progress, that it feels like I'll never see any fruit of what I'm fighting for; just trying to regain some ground at this point. I've given up on my own timeline and am simply fighting for future generations. I may never see it, but I'll be damned if I concede
It still hurts though, seeing how much progress is being lost and feeling helpless to stop the backslide. It's mind-numbing to think about, honestly
RFK looks like he's made from cancer
He's actually 3 cancers in a trench coat.
All three of the cancers have brain worms.
"Yes, one rated R movie ticket please!"
He sounds like it too.
Yes, well what do you expect from people who think it's a disease that can be cured (often with quack shit like bleach)?
I understand that parents find parenting an autistic child difficult. I have a high-functioning autistic child and that is difficult enough.
But they are just giving these people false hope. Autism can't be cured, just like many other ways people can be disabled. No one seems to be talking about curing Down's Syndrome.
A lot of this shit comes straight from Autism Speaks, by the way.
https://neuroclastic.com/autism-speaks-and-aba-same-corrupt-methods-different-coat-of-paint/
Ok but have they tried adding bleach to the vaccines?? Surely you are removing the autism from the vaccine by doing so ?
It’s a false hope that really gets to me. They are preying on these parents that just want what’s best for their kids. It’s not right.
Both of mine are AuDHD (or maybe ADHD Gold edition?) and I love them for exactly who they are, even with what a huge pain in the ass the neurodivergence can be sometimes. It frankly annoys me when people, almost always people who never had any experience raising autistic kids, send me "cures" for autism. They don't need to be cured, fuckers, this is who they are, stop telling me to put them on juice cleanses or what the fuck ever.
I think a lot of it is down to the fact that these kids can be difficult, there's no two ways about it. That makes people uncomfortable, and they want to solve that discomfort by helping. How do you help? Well, their autism related behaviors are what made them uncomfortable, so let's make the autism go away. Unfortunately, there's a huge grift industry around "helping" autistic kids.
Wonder how the court case would go for parents that fed their autistic kid bleach and claim they were told officially by the government that it was a cure.
Autistic or not, bleach can make your kids stronger. That's why Nirvana named their first album after it. /s
This stupid fuck would prevent my birth because my dad had polio and my mom was vaxxed against it.
That ABA article is ridiculously one sided
As someone who was basically drugged and tortured for struggling with making eye contact, duck ABA. I don’t care about their side.
Yeah, can't imagine why an autistic person who has to deal with that shit would have a "ridiculously one sided" view of it.
Much like how me, a person with trigeminal neuralgia (TN-2) would have a "ridiculously one sided" view of people trying to tell me about all sorts of "alternative medicine" bullshit that does not work.
Yep. And those fears are founded.
I don't understand why someone rich like Brainworms even wants to meddle with our health system. Not only does he have no qualifications, but doesn't he have better ways to spend his time?
Compromat.
That’s the plan! Roll it back to 1900
"When Men were Men, and Women knew their rightful place in the kitchen!"
How can we have our circle jerks if we have women mocking our masculinity all the time? You know what they say, a dude’s hand on your dick is worth two women in the kitchen. Praise Jesus.
And all those weirdos were locked away from the real men having to see em!
.... Ugh
What a crappy headline!! "WOULD set back"?!?!
As if there was any doubt he will set back that progress.
what do decades of progress in the autism community look like- genuine question.
Standard "treatments" moving away from what would be referred to in most other contexts as abuse. Seriously, it's messed up what they used to do.
The invention of Velcro shoes