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RFK Jr on autism: "'Oh, we're just noticing it more.' But this is an absurdity ... if we were just noticing it more, we would notice it in older groups. But we're not ... so something happened in the mid '90s that changed our children"

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Remember all those kids in school the bullies called retarded? Those were the autistic children you’re looking for RFK. Most of them are homeless adults now with no health insurance or respect from people like you RFK.

I would love to tell him about the many late-diagnosed adults I work with, including people 50+ and the months-to-years long wait lists older people face for testing. He is deeply ignorant and, worse, incapable of the curiosity and flexibility needed to learn just how fucking wrong he is.

Idk how many ppl in their 70s+ want to bother with beig diagnosed. What point would they habe to spend $5000+ for a diagnosis at that age??? Diagnosing autism isnt fuckin cheep (as someone whos been formally diagnosed)

1 plastic Spoons worth of plastic in our brains alone! 100% increase in 10 years! Maybe we need a Plastics forever chemicals dalasis? It cannot be good all the microscopic plastic in our cells!

One thing about Trump signing the EO about vaccines: It has everyone talking about autism & vaccines rather than how Trump's criminal defense attorney was confirmed as AG, which had everyone talking about Todd Blanche rather than the illegal Iran war, rather than how Trump is in the Epstein files.

Yeah my dad is 💯 on the spectrum but has never been diagnosed. There were probably tons of students in the 60s, 70s, 80s who would today test out as survive autistic, but at the time were taking classes next to the steam room in the basement.

I just read a piece that she might be his zapper! A hidden button in her stomach ZAPS him awake when he dozes off. This is an evil lying clown show.

I had a neighbor in the 60s who made no eye contact, recited tv show scripts into a clothes pin, and paced in circles. He didn’t go to school with us, and looking back, it’s obvious he was on the spectrum .

I’ve heard of quite a few adults who were suddenly diagnosed with autism and they didn’t understand what was wrong with them. Their whole lives. Once again, RFK Junior is stupid or lying or both.

PROOF: Shane Hollander is autistic and he is half of the male leads in Heated Rivalry. 50% of them are autistic, people. Born May 10, 1991. It says right in the book. Pay attention!

"Something happened in the '90s to cause a tornado epidemic!" No. We just installed Doppler radar. Oh and we now do see autism in adults, it's funny what you find when you're actually looking instead of eating road kill

RFK Jr on autism: “I’m an asshole. I’m a stupid grifting asshole. I’m a fucking dumb shit fucking grifting heroin addict shit head. I’m a toilet bowl coke snorting piece of shit asshole. I’m an ignorant asshole who swims in shit water who eats roadkill. Ghvtygkkngvbjjngfddf.”

Older people just want routine, eating on the same time every day. Drinking coffee on a certain time and they just collect stuf they like. Nothing to see here 😂

Many adults grew up at a time when criteria were narrower and there was more expectation to mask their traits. People have become more aware of the more subtle aspects of how it can present.

It’s not unusual for adults to bring children for evaluation, and once it is diagnosed in children, for the family to consider that parents and even grandparents have had these traits. Some will go on to be diagnosed as adults.

Does this fucking guy know how to read a scientific paper? Or ask those in the trenches? The hubris of this asshat to think he has any means to hold an expert opinion about anything is truly amazing.

That ridiculous man would have noticed it in the kids he went to school with if he hadn't lived such a privileged life where rich people hid their kids who were a bit different away. Like the late Queen's uncle Prince John who had epilepsy and was probably autistic was hidden away in Sandringham.

The idiot. How often do we test adults for things like autism? How likely are grandparent age people gonna willingly get tested anyway? On top of that, our entire healthcare system is stretched to the limits because of the efforts by the Republicans, so, no. Adults aren’t easily getting tested.

he isn't stupid. he knows everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. he tells the lies because he finds us disgusting and offensive to his sense of what is good and worthwhile about being human. he's not stupid he's doing this on purpose because he hates us and wants to hurt us

Many people can be 'quirky' or otherwise different without being anywhere near the autism spectrum. One reason there is a 'surge' is for so many mistaken diagnoses and self diagnoses being treated as real. Another reason is more attn to the autism category - which is both positive and negative.

Anecdotal, but illustrative: My mother taught elementary for some thirty years. She watched the autism and ADHD diagnoses skyrocket…but observed no major change to children’s behaviour. They were just classified and diagnosed differently.

Hasn't Elon disclosed he is autistic? On the spectrum at least with Asperger's? Obviously RFK hasn't a clue when he sees it because he hangs around with someone and then claims older people don't have it...

He’s an unchecked asshole and a child of privilege. He thought saying he was autistic would by him some sympathy points. There’s a reason he’s nowhere to be found in this ridiculous “debate.”

LIES LIES LIES and more.......LIES. MISINFORMATION IN ORDER TO VALIDATE trump's failure during covid. Remember when trump suggested injecting bleach under the skin? Where's the hearing on that suicidal suggestion. When will Dr. Deborah Birx be questioned about misleading the American people?

It wasn’t called autism in the past. It was called schizophrenia and you would be locked up in an institution and left to rot. That’s how it was. Today, thankfully, is better

How about people poisoning the soil, water, and air with herbicides, pesticides, coal, Teflon, asbestos, loading animals with hormones and antibiotics and a million things in the industrial revolution?

According to his previous statements what happened in the mid 1990s was we started vaccinating kids and circumcising infants - except of course we didn't start those then. The idea that this POS gets a national podium to spew misinformation and we have no mean of redress is infuriating.

We are noticing it in older groups. They just aren’t as obvious because adults aren’t going to necessarily self report that they are neurodivergent and they aren’t in elementary school.

someone who’s masked for decades and won’t get any support even if they get a diagnosis is probably just going to skip it even if they don’t attach any stigma to autism, which many do

Yes, I have a Baby Boomer friend who when I mentioned a person we both know casually is autistic said in surprise “They can’t be. I mean, they have a job!” and other comments displaying their ignorance.

Hey, RFK, you denim-clad swamp monkey, I was just diagnosed with ADHD at 49, and that’s only because I learned what the symptoms are from my son being diagnosed & a diagnosis helped me. Older adults who have figured out how to survive and mask don’t go seeking a new diagnosis unless they need to.

What happened in the mid '90s was the ascent of Putin whose Kremlin-backed antivax propaganda campaign sowed enough mistrust to spread once curable disease across America. With the addition of scapegoating neurodivergent people for their next round of concentration camps. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK Jr on autism: "'Oh, we're just noticing it more.' But this is an absurdity ... if we were just noticing it more, we would notice it in older groups. But we're not ... so something happened in the mid '90s that changed our children"

My kids got diagnosed late 20s with ADHD and Autism respectively Youngest came home, “Mom, I got it from you! Here, take this test” “Well, that explains a lot!” The Autism came from my husband, the ADHD from me, not Tylenol, not Vaccines But yes, we are excellent at Jeopardy

Oh FFS. Man physically missing part of his brain with severely diminished function due to long term heroine abuse tells America that as the one responsible for Americans health & wellbeing he lacks understanding of medical diagnosis progress, history or common facts

My dad def has it and I've been diagnosed. I was actually screened for it when I was like 6~ cause I struggled socially and made weird mouth sounds and had a lot of quirks, but girls didn't have autism back then, I got my diagnosis now and it explains a lot about me... and my dad lol

RFK Jr. is an ambulance-chasing lawyer with no medical background. Time for all Doctors around the country to stand up and call RFK Jr. out for his lies and bullshit!

We aren’t murdered in sanitariums, sterilized, or kept in boarded up rooms at the back of the house due to Ugly Laws, instead we meet each other at our well paying jobs like software engineer and have children we actually love and want to thrive. anti vaxx hysteria is DNA denial

I know people who weren't diagnosed until they were adults. A lot of times they are just the people who were a little socially awkward. You know who they were, from when you were in school. RFK Jr. is just ignorant and not willing to actually do research. His Autism obsession is disturbing.

I didn't know I was autistic until I was middle aged, and as it turns out there are many people just like me. Overall, the number of people over the age of 18 who have been diagnosed with autism has doubled over the last decade. www.yalemedicine.org/news/autism-....

yalemedicine.orgWhy More Adults Are Being Diagnosed with AutismAutism diagnoses among adults are rising. A Yale Medicine expert discusses why it’s happening and what to know if you're considering an evaluation.

It’s easy to discredit the evidence when you just ignore all evidence that contradicts your grift. Also, a lot of folks who grew up without diagnosis have developed comprehensive masking techniques. Also, a lot of folks rightly fear being diagnosed and put on a list for reasons known/unknown.

Don't listen to Dr Mengele aka RFK. This is one of his mad scientist experiments. Listen to someone who actually has Dr preceding his name and a degree on his office wall.

Maybe the amount of fucking heroin you did in the 90's cooked your fucking brain along with the worm perhaps? All of these assholes are cultists that need to be deprogrammed and tossed in a fucking jail cell in matching orange bump suits. Supermaxx worthy shit.

I'm reading about it far more in adults finally relieved that their issues can be named and addressed. Millions of people are so much happier they have some answers.

I blame the increase of TV stations for the supposed increased autism cases? Guns? Unleaded gas? Rap music? Growth of wheat bread? Starbuck’s? The designated hitter rule?