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The situation in the USA for Autism

profdanger

Good morning from the Midwest!

I’m sure you’ve all been keeping track of Trump’s tariff stuff, but there’s something even darker happening here in America that might not be making international news quite as much. Our current Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr (RFK Jr) is a well-known proponent of anti-vaccine theories. During a press conference in April he gave a really alarming message claiming Autism as an epidemic. He claims that rising numbers of Autism diagnoses are not due to a better, more spectrum-based system of diagnosis. He also made it clear that he believes that Autism destroys families and that most children with Autism will never grow up to be functioning members of society. That’s just the surface of it. NBC made a pretty good article tearing apart this horrible press conference:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/autism-community-needs-rfkjr-stigma-funding-rcna203578

Another good article talking about how dangerous RFK Jr is comes from Autistic Self Advocacy Network:

https://autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/asan-statement-on-updated-autism-diagnosis-numbers-amidst-attacks-on-autistic-people/

This man and the people on his team are absolutely terrifying for our community. It seems like every Autism society here in America (I haven’t checked Autism Speaks, who knows what they’re doing right now) is decrying RFK Jr’s “Make America Healthy Again” campaign. It’s actually kind of unnerving being Autistic in the Midwest where a frightening amount of people are religiously Trump supporters. I’m lucky to have a good support system that doesn’t think I’m a freak caused by vaccines.

Just thought y’all’d like to know what’s going down over here.

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  • in reply to profdanger

    He is a shapeshifter, he basically becomes anyone he thinks will stir up a frenzy, muddle the message and enable him to re-write reality. He is like a mirror image of the main character of Herman Melville's novel The Confidence Man in which the character essentially becomes whoever he thinks can manipulate the current crowd into giving him what he wants.

    If you look at what MAGA believes it makes you wonder about more than just trump's messy religious relationship. If you were to take a MAGA manifesto it would very closely approximate all the dogma in the bible minus the part about what Jesus said about loving thy neighbor, grace, humility and not worshiping false idols--hmm....? And you know what happens when you take the word dogmas and spell it backwards? SamGod...Same God?

    sidenote: from wikipedia "In Sanskrit, the verbal adjective sáṃskṛta- is a compound word consisting of sáṃ ('together, good, well, perfected') and kṛta- ('made, formed, work')".....maybe it could be translated to Same Script?

    You can also then take more or less what Jesus said according to the bible and compare it to the scripture of most other religions and what their religious leaders said. its pretty much the same message and Jesus was actually quite fluent in the Ying and the Yang but not the binary Good Vs Evil, Westernized version of it.

    I'm not a conspiracy theorist but you have to admit that is a weird string of patterns is it not?

    Really I think at their core all religions and those who find their truths in other ways gravitate around the same general universal principles for a reason that can actually be explained by religion or quantum physics if you have an open mind. The concept that some people call god, gods, goddess, Allah, great spirit or otherwise, I call the universe. But really deep down I do believe we all feel the presence of the SAMGOD, and the trick to not letting fear lead to hatred of others is to not let the dogmas lead you a-stray.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    You might be thinking of when he claimed to be no longer Presbyterian and is instead nondenominational? Trump’s relationship with religion is super messy.

    This article might have some bias, but it gives a pretty quick rundown on some of the connections he has with Christianity:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_religion