Hi.
Autistic person here
RFK Jr. didn’t “misspeak” when he called autism an “epidemic” that “dwarfs COVID.”
That’s eugenicist rhetoric.
We’re not a disease—we’re people.
The spectrum includes those who need support and those building the future. Diagnoses have expanded because understanding has improved—not because autism is “spreading.”
Dehumanizing us is not health policy. It’s dangerous
Every fascist movement targets the neurodivergent early.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-murder-of-people-with-disabilities
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_euthanasia_in_Nazi_Germany
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21843187/
Tim Mellon's patronage for RFK Jr is also deeply bigoted.
Manufacturing desperation to build a fascist dictatorship
https://www.borgenmagazine.com/german-poverty-30s/
Outbreaks of contagious diseases always hit marginalized groups hardest, the poor, the illiterate, the uneducated.
@Npars01 @flexghost As you share, “Every fascist movement targets the neurodivergent early.”