Health secretary is planning wide-ranging monitoring of autistic people’s health record and cuts to disability services
Autism experts and autistic people are pushing back on Robert F Kennedy’s “terrible” approach to autism as the health secretary plans more expansive monitoring of autistic people’s health records and proposes cuts to disability services.
A huge study on autism proposed by Kennedy will draw upon private medical records from federal and commercial databases, and a new health registry will track autistic Americans, CBS News reported on Monday.
A draft of proposed cuts to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), leaked on Wednesday, would also eliminate support for people with disabilities in the US, including education, research and services.
“It’s going to have an enormous chilling effect,” said Daniel Geschwind, professor and director of the UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment.
So in my experience, and I admit my data pool isn’t very large, autistic people are more likely to believe a friend stretching the truth, but almost never fall for ridiculous lies or outright propaganda. Put that thought in your brain for a second, and you can see why I think they’re really making a list.
Aspie supremacist nonsense.
I highly recommend you watch this video.
Definitely not true. “You are not immune to propaganda” is true for all communities, including autistic ones.
It’s just fascists pushing out outgroups. RFK wants to demonize vaccines, so he does campaign work against the autistic community in order to justify it. If you’re thinking deeper than that, you’re barking up the wrong tree