An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter is a Tragedy
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy
You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage.
I’d like to introduce you to my daughter.
Autist here.
I bet I paid more taxes then this corrupt, nepo baby.
I am also willing to bet I have a higher IQ too.
That's what I'm saying. Since I apparently shouldn't have been paying those taxes who do I contact to get it all back?
Motherfucker I guarantee i've paid more taxes than the entire fucking kennedy family, and I'm certainly a more useful member of society than captain brain worm
Autist here as well.
I paid ~$100k in taxes last year. I got married in 2020. I donate thousands to my local community a year. At peak I was helping create 30 some odd jobs locally.
RFK Jr can fuck off. I've historically done more good for this country in a month than he will ever do in his entire life. I wish the worst for him.
I got all these vaccines and no autism OR better 5G …. All I got was this measly resistance to deadly pathogens.
I'm not sure how people are supposed to talk about autism with precision when the official diagnosis can encompass both someone capable of being a brilliant inventor and someone not capable of even comprehending language. It's broad to the point of being useless. Even RFK can see the difference between people with severe mental disabilities and people who are socially awkward and like math. What's the point of confronting him with examples of the latter group when he's talking about the former group?
Because not only did he not make the above distinction, the comments try to devalue anyone with that diagnosis.
For a very crude analogy, you can imagine a normal four wheel car as nuerotypical.
Just because I have learned to balance a two-wheel car through sheer determination and willpower does not mean that I don't notice that I'm missing two fucking Wheels. I'm just exceptionally good at masking deficiencies as I drive from a to b and not letting people notice as my overdeveloped other skills can be used to compensate .
All that high functioning means is that I am aware of what society expects me to do. Manually take corrective actions to meet expectations and maintain appearances constantly. It's tiring. Draining exhausting.
Right, but there are also plenty of people who just ride a bike and get by just fine. Four wheels may be typical, but a vehicle is not defined by having four wheels. And having four wheels doesn't do you a ton of good when they're all flat and misaligned.
I don't think you should have to balance a car on two wheels, and I'm sad that you do need to. But having "a car" in this analogy isn't something that should be baseline necessary to be considered a human being.
Well 1) he's not making the fucking distinction, and 2) how are people supposed to talk about autism? Well how do you talk about abled people who run the gamut from world champion mma fighter to couch potato who couldn't smack pudding?
Spectrums? Spectrums??
All individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience challenges with social communication and interaction, and exhibit restricted or repetitive behaviors or interests. These are the core diagnostic criteria for ASD, and they are well defined.
The "spectrum" part of the disorder refers to the fact that these can vary in severity, but in order to be diagnostically relevant, they must "cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of current functioning." Being awkward and liking math is not ASD unless it meets that standard.
In any event, splitting ASD into distinct disorders by severity was not seen as clinically useful by the editors of the DSM, presumably after much consideration. If you wish to argue that level of severity between one symptom or another should be treated as a separate disorder, you can reach out to the Board of Trustees of the APA -- maybe you'll get your wish in the DSM VI.
my in-laws are tipping into supporting rhetoric from this administration even though all of their grandkids have been diagnosed autistic.
they're one bad day away from being 1000% cut out like my own family.
my kids don't even realize they have an uncle or cousins.
I have no problem explaining to my kids "pepaw" and "memaw" moved away and we can't see them ever again.
how many are “all of their grandkids”?
four
Not autistic, but I do have ADHD and I stand with all my fella humans regardless of things we can’t control.
This fucv can go fuck himself. People are more than their economic utility and more importantly, they are much much more than their neurodivergence or any other health condition they have.
trying to convince someone infested with brainworms and had heroin addiction is something.
RFK Jr is just a complete ghoul. He should have never touched power and the fact that he did speaks volumes to the profound sickness of the society we Americans occupy.
The fact that anyone feels the need to justify their existence because of this sort of rhetoric is just despicable. In a healthy society, people promulgating these ideas would be taken out back and shot.
RFK Jr can’t read.
Also, I don’t care if my daughter was Cheryl Fucking Hines, I wouldn’t introduce them to that sick fuck.
Worm: I did my best
Beautiful letter, well written 🥰 so true!
I challenge anyone to name one single thing how RFK has contributed to society. One. To show he isn't just a waste of oxygen. I will be waiting.
We're in a new phase of 'MuricanTM fascist eugenics, everyone!
Daily reminder that the fact RFK has a platform for the health policy of the US and not a grave after having his brain literally eaten by worms entirely due to his own risky behaviour, is fucking ｃｏｍｉｃａｌｌｙ ａｂｓｕｒｄ
Reality has really gone beyond parody. We use the term "brain worms" to describe willfully ignorant people, and along comes this guy who actually does have brain worms. Lmao
I know, right? Not only is it absolutely horrifying, but it's also completely breaking my immersion! A little on the nose, eh, devs?
I thought that brain worms was a thing he made up as evidence in court so that he wouldn't have to pay his ex-wife alimony?
I know about the brain worm thing, but not it being attributed to his risky behavior. What was the behavior that the worms are attributed to?
Eating roadkill on the reg
Yes, he's had a documented pattern of risky behavior (eating roadkill, spreading bones around in the park, doing monumental amounts of heroin), and yes: he had a brain worm. But SOMEHOW those two dots don't connect? It's impossible to prove specifics, but according to his spokesperson:
'He had “traveled extensively in Africa, South America and Asia” as part of his work as an environmental advocate and said he contracted a parasite in one of those trips.'
Then again we don't know what he got up to while was traveling. Maybe he chowed down on a raw pig, despite all attempts to stop him?
starting from his 20s, he was quite obsessed with dancing around carcasses and touching them, storing in his freezer and he would regurlarly consume said roadkills. also he would regurlarly use his falcon to hunt rats, and feed them to falcon. the most recent incident was only 10years ago, he found a baby bear carcass in newyork and drove it around and ditched in NYC central park, this set off alarm bells of the state, as they get suspicious if wild animal suddenly dies there.
hes even nuttier around the whale carcass.
Yeah and also (even more crucially) no scientific education whatsoever
Well sure, but he did "experiment" with drugs, which I mean... scientists do experiments, right?
you forgotten to mention, also liquefied from HIS HEROIN ADDICTION.