‘Let RFK Try To Help Us’: Families Of Severely Autistic Americans Come To Kennedy’s Defense
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this past week that he’s commissioning a series of studies to investigate potential environmental causes for autism, and underscored how the rate of autism, including severe autism, is continuing to increase.
Speaking specifically of severe cases of autism, RFK Jr. noted that some children may never grow up to play baseball or even use the bathroom by themselves.
RFK JR: And 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 pic.twitter.com/8T3hcYYn9O
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 16, 2025
Some Democrat politicians, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, criticized Kennedy for allegedly standing against people with autism. RFK, however, was met with support from family members of Americans who suffer from severe autism.
“I am not an RFK jr. fan but he just described children with what some would call ‘profound’ or ‘severe’ autism at a press conference and I have already seen so much pushback about how ‘their kid who has autism isn’t like that’ and like……….congratulations???? mine is,” one X user posted.
“For my daughter, autism is not a super power. It makes her life very difficult. She struggles to communicate her needs, it’s hard for her to participate in things with other children. I am not a conspiracy theorist, I am not anti vax, and ‘love on the spectrum’ is not my life,” she continued. “Like on one side you have people telling you that your kid’s disability essentially isn’t that big of a deal and on another they’re saying, ‘We believe you.’ Even if I disagree with their conclusions, they have empathy for me. For my child.”
for my daughter, autism is not a super power. it makes her life very difficult. she struggles to communicate her needs, it's hard for her to participate in things with other children.
i am not a conspiracy theorist, i am not anti vax, and "love on the spectrum" is not my life.
— emily may (@emilykmay) April 16, 2025
like on one side you have people telling you that your kids disability essentially isn't that big of a deal and on another they're saying, "we believe you."
even if I disagree with their conclusions, they have empathy for me. for my child.
— emily may (@emilykmay) April 16, 2025
As the mother of a daughter with severe autism, mild mental retardation and an intellectual delay, I resent your disdain for Secretary Kennedy’s efforts to research the increasing numbers of autism in America.
My daughter was diagnosed over 20 years ago and he is the first…
— Lisa Walsh (@LisaWal24884807) April 17, 2025
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