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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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  • Unfortunately Trump has removed qualified people from every branch and replaced them with unqualified yes men. He has a very fragile ego much like Putin and his rhetoric of jailing and suing anyone who writes or says anything negative about him let alone oppose him is very worrying.

    The guy has billionaires lined up around him that profit from billions of people worldwide on a daily basis from systems like PayPal and Amazon and directly profits from insider trading, meme coin and now a private jet. I think any hope that he wanted to 'drain the swamp' to free up funds for anyone but himself and the top 1% can be dismissed.

  • in reply to Mike3000

    It always amazes me how thin skinned people like Trump, Putin and Farage are, they must walk round in a constant state of never having been so insulted by horrible people, that they then feel the need to obliterate.

    I wonder if the tech bros are surrounding Trump, in the hope that he dosen't suddenly turn on them?

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  • in reply to Mike3000

    It always amazes me how thin skinned people like Trump, Putin and Farage are, they must walk round in a constant state of never having been so insulted by horrible people, that they then feel the need to obliterate.

    I wonder if the tech bros are surrounding Trump, in the hope that he dosen't suddenly turn on them?

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  • in reply to profdanger

    I don't understand it either, does nobody remember the Thatcher/Regan years when trickle down economics were going to level the playing field, reward hard work and make everyone richer? From what I remember, we all ended up poorer, or most of us did, there were the usual ones at the top who just got richer.

    Has anyone seen the number Trump's just pulled and South African President Cyril Rampossa? Accusing him of allowing the genocide of white farmers and showing him a handful of dubious news reports? Another ambush similar to the one he subjected Zelinskyy too, fortunatley Rampossa didn't lose his rag and stayed calm which clearly annoyed Trump.

  • in reply to profdanger

    I think if you understand the where Trump is going you need to believe in trickle down economics and that you won't be on tomorrow's list of undesirables and in both cases it's no confidence from me.

    When you keep giving these people money they never have enough and the only outcome is them taking joyrides to space or financially supporting multiple fatherless mothers to have their children.

  • in reply to Mike3000

    I recently asked my dad (who’s a Trump supporter) what he thinks about the tariffs without showing him my bias and his response was that they’re painful because he’s already lost money on it. BUT: “Eventually when everything is said and done Trump is going to put his own money in our pockets near the end of his term.”

    I really don’t understand billionaire worship like that.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    "If Elon Musk's wealth as of today ($330B) were entirely hundred-dollar bills, then laid end-to-end, they'd circle Earth three times, and with what's left over, if taped end-to-end, will make a ribbon long enough to ascend into space and reach the Moon." Neil deGrasse Tyson

    The country is in a lot of debt for sure. I guess any leader is either going to have to target the people with that much wealth or it's going to have to try and extract more from the rest of the world. What is worrying is the rhetoric of land grabbing, displacing the current list of undesirables and forcing companies into the USA. There can be no good outcome from this especially while those billionaires have systems in place to sell and extract a percentage of every transaction worldwide.