If you haven't seen the news, Roberr F Kennedy Jr has proposed that there is setup a register of people with autism in the USA.
He also proposes a bunch of misinformation about autism to justify this (e.g. it is a preventable disease caused by environmental toxins)) -
News these days can be very biassed in its reporting so it helps that Snopes has researched the article in more depth:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/22/rfk-jr-registry-to-track-autism/
My concern is that this is opening the door to eugenics. Look at his statement: "These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date, many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,”
It does not take much of a stretch of the imagination for a regeime already leaning heavily on facist methodology to start to build registers of the undesirables - those they can get rid of because they are a burdon on society.
Once the US starts to normalise the process then other countries are going to believe thet can do the same - the Pandoras box will have been opened.
It is a very troubling time to be autistic.
