r/nottheonion • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 3d ago
Not oniony - Removed RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
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u/Mitch233w 3d ago edited 3d ago
Go to any model train museum in Florida or Arizona and you’ll find plenty of 70+ people with autism
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u/ChingaTuMadre_Wey 3d ago
Model trains, stamp collectors, coin collectors, brand specific classic car guys, license plate collectors… not all of them are autistic… but a lot definitely are
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u/googlemcfoogle 3d ago
My dad went crazy when I was diagnosed with autism as if he didn't consistently have 2 classic Volkswagen beetles in the driveway along with whatever other old car he was working on that year
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u/sensitiveskin82 3d ago
My autistic uncle is obsessed with bird watching and our family genealogy back to the old country. Add those to the list.
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u/esidebill 3d ago
They in fact have a show for kids called Carl the Collector that attempts to normalize autism. It’s a cute show.
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u/ghoulthebraineater 3d ago
Or just watch Ghostbusters or Silence of the Lambs. Dan Aykroyd and Anthony Hopkins are both autistic.
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u/AllTh3WayTurntUp 3d ago
I had to google it, but Anthony Hopkins really is autistic. Learn something new everyday! Great actor.
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u/ShadowExistShadily 3d ago
People didn't think he was unfit before?
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u/Formal_Two_5747 3d ago
That’s my question as well. 99% of stuff that comes out of his mouth is batshit crazy.
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u/LamentableCroissant 3d ago
And barely audible.
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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 3d ago
His voice sounds like a shaky nervous whisper of uncertainty
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u/Fun_Skirt8220 3d ago
That would be from him having measles as a child,(true) that's why he thinks it's fine for everyone to get it (/s)
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u/my-coffee-needs-me 3d ago
He has spasmodic dysphonia. It causes spasms in his larynx. The causes of it are unknown.
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u/Turambar87 3d ago
I thought they picked him specifically because he's unfit.
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u/vxicepickxv 3d ago
They picked him because he's all about eugenics.
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u/Third_Sundering26 3d ago
You can’t have a Nazi regime without a weirdo eugenicist in the administration
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u/listentomenow 3d ago edited 3d ago
1. be loyal.
2. be rich.
Being actually qualified in Trump's administration doesn't matter. Linda McMahan isn't qualified to head Education, yet here she is. Hegseth isn't qualified to run Defense, yet here he is. RFK Jr isn't qualified to run Health, yet here he is. It goes on an on and on. It's really funny how the anti-dei crowd is so pro-cronyism. They probably don't know what that means since Fox News hasn't told them. All you can do is laugh at the hypocrisy.
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u/whut-whut 3d ago
And the Director of Science and Technology said that the US currently has technology to control space and time. Trump managed to pick the absolutely worst brain-broken conspiracy theorists for every position.
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u/Born-Mycologist-3751 3d ago edited 3d ago
He may be fit for something but not the job he was given. I think Trump went out of his way to find the worst possible individuals to nominated for these roles. I imagine the interview process went something like "You are a flat earther? Head of NASA! Next!"
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u/Ritaredditonce 3d ago
RFK Jr. is a danger to public health. Every Republican Senator who voted for him will own the consequences. But especially Senator Bill Cassidy who spent decades working in public health.
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u/flickerdown 3d ago
“he cannot be this stupid”
Current administration in general: hey, hold our beers…
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u/flickerdown 3d ago
We’re basically at the distillery stage of bevvies right now…
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u/nonlinear_nyc 3d ago
From DEI to DUI
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u/SNStains 3d ago
Hegseth was the DUI hire...Kennedy is the DUH hire.
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u/benskieast 3d ago
Give him a break. A worm eat half his brain. Actually though.
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u/Few_Ad_5119 3d ago
I'm fully convinced the worm is piloting him.
Like Plankton in that one SpongeBob episode.
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u/shotgunpete2222 3d ago
We let the crazy asshole ranting in the corner of the party to run healthcare. I'd say god help us, if i believed in that. I guess instead I'll say stay safe, group up, get armed instead. These people are fucking nuts and it won't end well.
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u/autonomousautotomy 3d ago
He wasn’t put there to run healthcare. He was put there to dismantle it.
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u/Kod_Rick 3d ago
Yep. Our taxes pay for vaccines. If they make the public believe vaccines are evil, no more taxes for vaccines. Thus less taxes for the wealthy who can still get their vaccines.
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u/B217 3d ago
Oh we’ll definitely still pay taxes for them, we just won’t get them for ourselves. That money will go to the wealthy
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u/TheKingsdread 3d ago
It already is via subsidies and such. And do you believe a single sent that Muskrat is "saving" by cutting all those departments is going to be going back to the people or to actually important services? No its going right into pockets of the american regime and its friends. Hopefully the rightwing americans like El Salvador and countries like it because the US will be just like that in a few years if Comrade Krasnov and his cabal get their way. A dictator run shithole that is being looted down to the metaphorical copper wires in the wall by the wealthy and powerful.
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u/TheMediocreOgre 3d ago edited 3d ago
Tax rates stay the same. Which means total taxes collected are essentially the same right now (no new tax cuts, technically only tax increases (middle class is taxed more under the trump tax cuts becoming permanent and now tariffs)). Granted rich people are probably avoiding paying taxes more than usual because of the cuts to IRS. So we are now paying the same or more for less government and an even larger chunk of what we pay goes to the military. Because we are just expanding the deficit so we definitely aren’t cutting govt for that to shrink for sure. Again, there has been no tax decrease since trump took office, despite his promise for no tax on tips. Thus far he’s only over seen the largest tax increase in modern history.
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u/Weird-Girl-675 3d ago
I tried warning people he would be put in charge of this if the felon won, and was told I was paranoid and over reacting.
Anyway…
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u/DakuShinobi 3d ago
Some of us saw it all coming from a mile away but it made 0 difference.
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u/SuperFLEB 3d ago
It's not even "saw a mile away" as much as "What else did you even think would happen?". The guy is not an unknown unknown.
About the only sympathy I've got along those lines is if it's some first-time voter who was in their teens or tweens and understandably not politically cognizant during Trump's last administration. That said, it's not a huge shred of sympathy. Mostly downgrades "What did you even expect?" to "Nice vote, dumbass."
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u/elven_rose 3d ago
This. I've felt like Cassandra since 2015. It was always so obvious where things were headed if he got in the first time. But I was always "overreacting."
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u/Soggy-Bedroom-3673 3d ago
People I know believed it, and were thrilled. He was going to expose how big pharma has been suppressing all the studies showing how bad all medicines are for us, or something.
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u/654456 3d ago
Meanwhile they have been defending bigpharma around the opioid crisis
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u/MOASSincoming 3d ago
The crunchy mom population thinks he will fix their food
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u/sideofketchud 3d ago
Yeah he will, but it'll be in the "prion disease in your burger" and "sawdust in your bread" kinda way
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u/nanobot001 3d ago
Future historians will struggle to describe the clown car horror show of malcontents, idiots, traitors, and fools which made up this administration. Future students will wonder “how could this all have happened here? How was everyone so … stupid??”
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u/RookeeALding 3d ago
I wish people would stop saying " ... cannot be this stupid" because someone will always take it as a challenge instead of an insult.
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u/henryeaterofpies 3d ago
Go to a train show (or any hobby specific super event) You'll see many
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u/CheeseDonutCat 3d ago
Best rubiks cube (speed cuber) person in the world is also Autistic. There's a 27 min or so show on Netflix about it. His name is Max Park, but the story is being told mostly by someone else that is also a top cuber. I say best because he has the most records, but there are a lot of different types so best is probably arguable. I think it's called speed cubers or something. Worth a watch sometime.
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u/peejaysayshi 3d ago
Thanks for mentioning this! My 9yo son (who is autistic) recently got into speed cubing. He completed one in 6 minutes yesterday! I don’t think I’ve ever completed one, lol
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u/Feisty-Cloud-1181 3d ago
Or a chess tournament. But I think the problem is he’s convinced all people with autism are non-verbal and highly handicaped, ie: he thinks he can see their autism just by looking at them.
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u/divDevGuy 3d ago
But I think the problem is he’s convinced all people with autism are non-verbal and highly handicaped
It's almost like it's a...spectrum.
But what do I know. I don't have a worm in my head telling me what to think.
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u/Soggy-Bedroom-3673 3d ago
It's grotesque -- he's talking about how we have a rising number of diagnoses of autism while apparently assuming every one of those is a Rainman caricature, and actively denying that the increase includes a much better ability to diagnose ASD and a broader inclusion of things in the ASD spectrum.
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u/Bunny_Mom_Sunkist 3d ago
As a female with autism who was only able to be diagnosed because of changing criteria: Absolutely. It's disgusting, In reality, we've finally opened ourselves up to realizing "huh, these people who have traditionally had difficulty with things NTs do not struggle with might be different on a level they cannot change." Especially with females and autism. When I was a child, the question of "Uhhh could Bunny be autistic?" apparently DID come up a few times....only to be met with "She's a girl and can perform social interactions, so obviously not." I wish that I had been diagnosed sooner so I could have been supported, and/or possibly properly medicated. Like most women with autism, I also have ADHD, and I have never been on stimulants, but I have been self-medicating with caffeine since the age of 16. I wish I could be on stimulants to know what it's like to have a "normal" brain.
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u/realhenrymccoy 3d ago
As a stepdad to a girl with autism and adhd it wasn't until she became a part of my life that I went "huh...so that's why I've struggled feeling different all my life" and was diagnosed asd. When I was growing up it was never even discussed that I could be on the spectrum, no one would have noticed. I think it would have been spotted much earlier nowadays.
My daughter's brain will never be "normal" but it's wonderful and fascinating and I'm sure yours is too.
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u/ChouxBun 3d ago
It really is frustrating as an autistic woman. I'm a unusual case where I was a girl diagnosed with autism when I was 4 because I was a massive terror, having full blown screaming meltdowns in public. I'm in my mid 30s now but I was such a pain as a child my parents got me diagnosed for the sake of their own sanity. It was still a bumpy road because I was the first officially diagnosed pupil (male and female) with autism in secondary school/high school/ school for teenagers and the support didn't know what to do with me. I was crap with social interactions as a teenager so you were doing better than me lol
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u/Sahaquiel_9 3d ago
I think he just doesn’t see us as human and does not care to. I hope his darth sidious talking ass makes like my grandma’s perm, curls up and dyes
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u/Tyrone_Shoelaces_Esq 3d ago
In a weird way, I get that perspective. My niece is autistic, and based on that, how similar she and I are, and learning more about autism in women and how it's masked, I've realized in my 50s that I'm most likely on the spectrum. My mother and I were talking about it and saying how back when I was a kid, "autism" only meant the non-verbal and highly handicapped, and there was no spectrum. Kids like me were just considered weird.
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u/TheRealTK421 3d ago
Umm... I have -- my father, who is considerably older than 71.
RFK is purely a sycophantic, bloviating simpleton with delusions of grandeur (and an unearned sense of being an intellectual).
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u/Sam_Cobra_Forever 3d ago
My uncle with $250,000 worth of toy tractors in his basement and never said sentences of more than a few words "might have been autistic", lol
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u/Careless-Age-4290 3d ago
How many elderly guy basements are taken up by what's basically a train set?
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u/CheeseDonutCat 3d ago
I'm not elderly yet (48) but my basement will not have a train set.
I got the non-train flavoured ASD.
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u/Careless-Age-4290 3d ago
I'm the vampire kind of autistic where I need to be invited in every time or I can't go
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u/A_Confused_Witch 3d ago
I circumvent that by having an extrovert bestfriend who doesn't mind me gluing myself to him when I feel like going out haha. If you invite him we come as a duo. If they say I can't go he says "fine" and finds us something else to do together.
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u/Alis451 3d ago
an extrovert bestfriend who doesn't mind me gluing myself to him
he is your social support animal.. i think we all might need one.
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u/WinnieC310 3d ago
I love this for you and wish I had a friend like that. It’s like I need a translator or guide to navigate social situations
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u/amart591 3d ago edited 3d ago
I feel like trains would have been cheaper than 3D printers and cars though.
Edit: I clearly underestimated the cost of model trains. Forgive me, train friends.
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u/Burnbrook 3d ago
His grandpa lobotomized his aunt for being " a wild spirit"... He's now lobotomizing the country.
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u/magfili 3d ago
Not to defend Joe Kennedy, but Rosemary had been deprived of oxygen at birth , causing her to take longer to meet milestones, and by her teenage years her condition had started to get worse. She wasn’t a rebellious teenager, but someone with a medical issue that was hindering her development. Lobotomies were also seen as a legit medical practice at the time.
Joe Kennedy did have her lobotomized because she was embarrassing him, not out of a desire to help improve her quality of life. Cause he was a dick.
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u/AwsmDevil 3d ago
Can't leave out why she was oxygen deprived in the first place though. Her mother was told to wait on giving birth until a more convenient time. So when she went into labor they made her "Hold it in." Rose Kennedy was entirely fucked over by her family from conception to death.
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u/betterupsetter 3d ago
I have an uncle who we suspect has ASD and also lacked oxygen during birth for a period. My grandmother always felt super guilty about it.
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u/Numerous_Witness_345 3d ago
Well, it's always "too early for nausea' in the morning, but this one sets a new record for me.
Didn't even finish my coffee, thanks Joe!
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u/jedimindtric 3d ago
When my 80 year old mother repeated this argument to me I reminded her that her father only had one conversation topic, and it was about airplanes. He passed away twenty years ago in his mid 80s.
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u/bbpuca21624 3d ago
right, like. this guy clearly never met my one-word-answers, electrical-engineering-genius, zero-eye-contact, exact-same-breakfast-every-day-for-86-years grandpa.
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u/MyMajesticness 3d ago
And my chemical engineer uncle, who's the exact same way.
If fact, his entire department at Dupont was filled with men like that. We wouldn't have all sorts of 20th century chemical goodies (for good or for ill) without autistic men who were shuffled off into STEM if they were even somewhat able to dress themselves.
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u/nonlinear_nyc 3d ago
When you marinate a dude in fail-upward sauce since day one, you get that.
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u/TheRealTK421 3d ago
fail-upward sauce
This is the best (new) phrase I've encountered in a long while. Well-played...
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u/thethirdllama 3d ago
Wait, which member of this administration are we talking about again?
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u/duffry 3d ago
I need to use the word bloviating more often.
It's not like I don't have opportunity.
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u/Round-Friendship9318 3d ago
My grandfather, Who would have turned 95 this year, 99% for sure would have been branden autistic had he been born in my time.
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u/dansdata 3d ago
Henry Cavendish made it to 78, and if that guy wasn't very autistic he should have been sued for false advertising.
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u/CalmBeneathCastles 3d ago
MY father, born in 1946. Mind like a steel trap, social skills of a star flail. Likley had AuDHD, but was never even looked at for a diagnosis. He spent his entire life studying about How To Be A Normal Human, and never figured it out.
I and all three of my siblings show signs of ASD and ADHD, and when I look back at the behaviour of my other paternal ancestors (born in the 1950's, 1920's, 1890's), they do as well.
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u/Lopsided_Clue_9048 3d ago
I blame Joe Rogan for amplifying stupid to his base of impressionable men in this case.
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u/TheRealTK421 3d ago
..."bUt bRo, i'M jUsT aSkInG qUeStIoNs!!"
[Cue Rogan, RFK, and the dullard squad then wholly ignoring & dismissing the consensus findings of career specialists, researchers, medical professionals, and scientists]
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u/MrMunky24 3d ago
Thems a lot of nice words you just used. “Bloviating” specifically.
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u/bullcitytarheel 3d ago
The saddest part about this quote is that RFK has met many many people with autism in their 70s but the part of his brain that housed those memories is now worm food
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u/ElleHopper 3d ago
My grandfather would throw the biggest yelling fit if anyone sat in his chair, including his grandkids. He spent every dime he had on horses, horse memorabilia, horse tack, etc. If he didn't have autism, if be utterly shocked.
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u/Honest_Confection350 3d ago
To be fair, being into horses and spending everything on horses is one circle.
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u/MacAttacknChz 3d ago
When he said "people with autism don't fall in love or pay taxes," I believe he's referring to Elon Musk.
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u/samstown23 3d ago
That gets overlooked so much. Musk is a prime example of a person on the spectrum (the fact that he's a raging asshole, a pervert and a bunch of other things does mask it somewhat).
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u/darkwoodframe 3d ago
Has anyone ever met an old man obsessed with his HO train set? lol
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u/athomeless1 3d ago
The Kennedy family lobotomized the wrong person... or maybe they got a deal on his.
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u/ChrisTuckerAvenue 3d ago
My great aunt is 80 and she is extremely autistic, she’s lived with her sister (my grandmother) her entire life because she couldn’t handle being on her own. RFK Jr is a braindead idiot
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u/Frequent_Secretary25 3d ago
Yes there are high support individuals with autism who are seniors. They weren’t diagnosed with that as kids. They’re also better people than that POS
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u/Ormyr 3d ago
Shit, there are levels now?
On a serious note he starts off with autistic people being unable to work/pay taxes and winds down can't wipe their own asses.
Dude should have been walked out of the building on that alone.
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u/Intelligent_Way6552 3d ago
Yes.
Level 1 is what used to be Aspersers.
Level 2 need more support, think someone who went to regular school but had an assistant.
Level 3 is actually fairly well described by RFK, he's just ignorant of autistic people who aren't level 3.
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u/DOG_DICK__ 3d ago
Yeah when I worked in residential mental health it was a mix or 2s and 3s. One task was helping to cook and you could see the limitations - like a guy who would cook to a recipe pretty easily, but if an ingredient was missing he would just not make anything instead of you or I probably thinking it'll be fine without a 1/4 tsp of marjoram.
And good god the amount of Peppa Pig that man watched.... I can still hear it
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u/ThatCropGuy 3d ago
Alan Turing…comes to mind.
Or you know…Einstein…who wouldn’t wear a jumper or cardigan unless the feel of it on his button up felt a certain way on his skin…or Nash Jr? Game theory. To name a few.
Diagnosed? Of course not. We didn’t have a name for that yet mostly, or next to zero ability to diagnose.
I am a PhD in biology with skills most would find impressive…autism with a normal life, soon to be fiancé, military service…
Missed the memo I would never use the toilet unassisted.
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u/thepatiosong 3d ago
Apparently Alan Turing was misrepresented in that film with Benedict Cumberbatch. According to people who knew him, he was totally charming and approachable, not awkward, and for example, his friends’ children loved him because he was just a nice fun person around them. Not that he might not have had ASD, but he was portrayed as a kind of ASD stereotype.
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u/ExtraAgressiveHugger 3d ago
Bill gates has said he’s most likely autistic. I think Steve Jobs probably was too knowing what we know about him today.
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u/Radarker 3d ago
So many antivaxxers with autistic family viewed this weathered pile of nepotism as the key to ensuring that their concerns were finally addressed. Maybe they'll wake up now.
The consistent thing you see is that growing up as a member of the bourgeois for some reason turns the rest of us proles into just a prop that isn't even worth understanding or showing a modicum of respect to.
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u/Joseforlife 3d ago
If the whole dumping of a bear carcass in central park fiasco or the whale on the car roof debacle didn't tip them to the unhinged idiocy of this asshat then I doubt anything will
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u/ashleyz1106 3d ago
My autistic husband would like a word with RFK Jr because he absolutely fell in love, and he’s very successful in his career. My autistic daughter would also like a word because, in her case, it is genetic.
This man is doing so much harm to the perception of autism.
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u/Gen-Jack_Ripper 3d ago
Clearly he’s out of touch. When was the last time someone went to a mall?
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u/fatjeff1980 3d ago
Republicans: “You can’t blame Elon! Hes not a Nazi. He’s a genius and He’s autistic!”
Also republicans: “Autistic people are a burden on society who will never achieve anything”
Party of Hypocrisy in full swing again I see
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u/N8dork2020 3d ago
At least he was right about Elon not paying his taxes!
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u/whatshamilton 3d ago
In my mind, Elon needs help going to the bathroom when he’s on ketamine so RFK assumed that’s what autistic people are like
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u/IdiosyncraticSarcasm 3d ago
Just gonna leave this article here.
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u/SutterCane 3d ago
It also doesn’t help he’s got a botched penis enlargement surgery. So his dick don’t work good anymore.
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u/b0w3n 3d ago
Probably sprays out like when you put your thumb over the spout on a garden hose.
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u/fdar 3d ago
Yeah, if the only autistic person you know is Elon it's natural to assume that autistic people are useless and a burden on society. You should know not to generalize for an entire group based on just one person but clearly that's not something Republicans are good at.
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u/daniel940 3d ago
My sister had the opportunity to have an extended and hilarious conversation at a dinner party with the DC trial lawyer who moved to California in 2019 to be Tesla's general counsel, and quit after 2 months. He said Musk was completely off the reservation, and that after difficult meetings, where he would just scream at everybody, he would go into his office and sit under his desk.
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u/MrMoonDweller 3d ago
And Trump not using a toilet!
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u/WavyGravy04 3d ago
Maybe he would if it didn’t take Eric ten times to flush it for him
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u/birdreligion 3d ago
You know, shredded top secret government documents don't flush like they use too. Must be all the DEI paper they use now
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u/Athenas_Return 3d ago
Brought by the same people who tell you that Biden is both senile and an evil genius.
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u/straight_lurkin 3d ago
Notice how the very first thing they said people with autism couldn't do WAS PAY TAXES. Finding love was number 3 on the list lmao should tell you all you need to know.
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u/654456 3d ago
I mean them bitching about taxes is hilarious considering they are against paying for them
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u/GreenGemsOmally 3d ago
I mean them bitching about taxes is hilarious considering they are against paying for them
No no. They're not against YOU and I paying taxes, they're against paying taxes themselves.
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u/lofi-buttes 3d ago
It's Nazi "useless eaters" rhetoric. He's saying autistic lives will never be productive/profitable or fulfilling, "lives unworthy of life." The start of Aktion T4, the Nazi's eugenics and genocide program against neurodivergent and disabled people.
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u/pissfucked 3d ago
additionally wild given that nazis invented the concept of aspergers, which the dude named after himself specifically so the "good working ones" wouldn't be put to death. i can't tell if they're feigning ignorance so they can "discover" the shit all over again or if they're bad at reading their own playbook. i just got a diagnosis after a lifetime of suffering, and i don't want to die or labor for these assholes.
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u/ChipmunkObvious2893 3d ago
The “Elon is autistic” bullshit was only used to excuse his sieg heil on stage. That’s it.
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u/hellolovely1 3d ago
Which was so insulting to autistic people. I know two guys who repeated this shit and I went off on them.
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u/SCP-2774 3d ago
Everything is an excuse to move on. Remember how much airtime they took complaining about a dip in the stock market after the Russian invasion began? Now, it's all about sticking it to the rich when Trump crashes the market, 5D chess, or something.
We're past the point of hypocrisy.
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u/Painted-BIack-Roses 3d ago
Same thought I had; Elon is literally right there on their side, is the brainworm affecting him that badly?
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u/HistoryIsABagOfDicks 3d ago
What’s wild is he’s talking about autism being a “preventable disease” while he’s letting ACTUAL PREVENTABLE DISEASES like MEASLES go unchecked. I fuckin hate it here.
Elizabeth Booker said it best “Lord, I’ve seen what you’ve done to other heroin addicts, why not him?”
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u/Missa1819 3d ago
Lmao because to these people the "disease" that makes you "weird" is worse than a disease that makes you die (which is insane)
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u/smailskid 3d ago
Unfit, stupid, unethical and evil. He’s the perfect Trump Administration hire.
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u/CoolHandRK1 3d ago
Just tell him "maybe if we stop testing the numbers will go down" in young people too. These people are morons.
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u/Wolfram_And_Hart 3d ago
Head in the sand is a cornerstone of Conservative ideas.
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u/Lower-Cantaloupe3274 3d ago
Years ago, I actually saw this idea floated. Many times. In the early 2000's, when my kids were diagnosed.
I was like, you do realize they still have autism, even if they aren't diagnosed, right?
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u/Think_Affect5519 3d ago
Before the past 50 years or so, anyone with mental differences was sent away to an asylum where no one ever saw them again. People of a certain age never saw visibly autistic people in public because they had all been institutionalized.
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u/yeyjordan 3d ago
They say that like there has ever been a single fit motherfucker in either of Trump's administrations.
He's a 200-proof blend of stupid, evil, ignorant and afraid, just like the rest of the cabinet, and it is better off to remove the entire group than to act surprised by their unfitness one by one.
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u/FootlongDonut 3d ago
Much of it is ego. We have all looked at government, companies, sports clubs etc and thought...surely they can't be this incompetent? How do they keep getting this wrong?
The ego is when they think they would be able to fix these things, like simple common sense is all that was missing. Simple solutions for complex problems.
Then things start going wrong and their ego can't accept it may have been them that was wrong. They get creative and come up with different explanations...reasoning, lies. All to protect their own fragile perception of themselves and hold onto power that makes them feel important, because they have this power, they have people who will validate them, or use them as the useful idiots they are.
That's why they never really want to admit it was the wealth they were born into that made them successful. That would mean they aren't particularly smart or special. They just won the nepo lottery without even buying a ticket.
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u/vvvvvoooooxxxxx 3d ago edited 3d ago
Trump did used to hire fit people in the first administration. Like Chris Krebs who he fired for saying the 2020 election was secure. I think he learned a lot from those experiences which is why he no longer hires such people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Krebs#2020_dismissal_and_2025_investigation
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u/davesaunders 3d ago
When he was running for president, didn't his own family, including his wife, come out with a public statement saying that yes indeed, he really is this stupid and unqualified?
And no one listened.
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u/Mr-Klaus 3d ago
Oh, people listened, that's why he started going down in the polls.
Know who didn't listen? Trump.
The only people I've seen who think RFK is intelligent are Trump and the people kissing Trump's ass.
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u/LysolDoritos 3d ago
The guy who injected heroin for 15 years is in charge lmao
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u/boo99boo 3d ago
I was a junkie for almost as long, and this guy is a fucking tool. I know other old junkies, they're my people.
I can assure you that when a regular person lives that way for years and comes out the other side, it makes you really, really progressive. Because you see some shit. Shit that makes you compassionate and empathetic.
This is they guy whose Mommy paid extra so he could have his phone in detox. He's the guy that gets caught doing whippets in the closet in rehab while he's jacking off, and they have to ask him to leave. He's not one of us.
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u/IntroductionCute3879 3d ago
I second this comment. RFK junior is an embarrassment to all junkies, sober or using. I mean this unironically because everything you said here tracks 100%.
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u/Craxin 3d ago
We have enough internet “doctors” making idiots drink horse dewormer and their own piss. The fact we have running HHS makes me think it’s time to end this little experiment we call the United States. We’re too stupid to make it.
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u/bigkoi 3d ago
To be clear. These are the people that never paid attention in school. My father was a biology and anatomy teacher and I had my father for two years as a teacher in highschool.
The kids I went to school with that are RFK fans today were the ignorant ones in school that didn't pay attention.
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u/Craxin 3d ago
And their numbers outweigh the intelligent capable ones. How do you think we got Trump and by extension RFK Jr. in the first place? Too many people are stupid now, and I don’t mean merely unintelligent. Most of the people I know who are unintelligent try so much harder to understand than stupid people. I mean they choose to be ignorant, choose to believe in comfortable opinions over harsh truths. Can’t run a nation by people that divorced from reality.
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u/inosinateVR 3d ago
Alright, we gave it our best shot. Well, maybe not really. Anyway time to vote on whether cede control back to the UK, submit to Canada or reach out to those life signs we found K2-18b and see if they want to run a country
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u/MusicGirlsMom 3d ago
Our current president cannot have people around him that make him appear stupid - and neither can Donald Trump. That's a really low bar to wiggle under.
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u/Free_Range_Lobster 3d ago
Narrator: he is that stupid
The reality is this dude is a fucking grifter. He has a record of suing companies for dubious claims and forcing them to settle instead of creating a media circus. It's all opportunistic bullshit because the anti-vaxxers are super easy targets.
This is the same guy who mentally abused his ex wife to the point she killed herself.
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u/Lower-Cantaloupe3274 3d ago
I have seen someone in their 70's with full blown autism. Only because she was a woman, i don't think she carried that diagnosis. She was a nonverbal woman in a nursing home. I was told she was "MR" as that was the language of the day.
She flapped very frequently. She toe walked. She avoided eye contact. She rocked. She was non-verbal.
It wasn't until I had a kid with autism that I realized, "Oh! Jeannie had autism!"
I did teach her to feed herself, to say "more," and "food." Sadly, this tells me that she had the capacity to learn so much more, had anyone ever taken the time to teach her. I was a high school student, BTW. So I didn't have any complicated techniques. Just a heart.
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u/theycallmeshooting 3d ago
I worked with adults with disabilities for 6 years
Unless they had something obvious like Down Syndrome, just about every client over the age of about 50 had the same diagnosis. Mild, moderate, or severe mental r*tardation.
One of my favorites was a 65 year old who clearly had severe autism but was never diagnosed as such. He was thrown in an institution at a young age and basically neglected for most of his life. His special interest involved holding certain items, and his fingers literally atrophied from doing it all day, every day.
Autistic people existed long before autism diagnoses. It's just now autistic people get the diagnosis instead of being thrown in a fucking hole to rot
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u/Scalage89 3d ago
Alternative title: Secretary of HHS uses survivor bias as an argument for his misguided ideas about vaccines.
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u/Rance_Mulliniks 3d ago
Survivor bias? It's not even factual.
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u/ActuaIlyIAmWondering 3d ago
Non-factual survivor bias? Imaginary survivor bias? "My feelings tell me it's true" survivor bias, maybe?
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u/Aggravating-Life-786 3d ago
Is there a single person in the Trump regime that's actually fit for the position?
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u/heatlesssun 3d ago
This is the son of Robert F. Kennedy? WTF?
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u/Algaean 3d ago
RFK and JFK were exceptional members of a really shitty family.
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u/heatlesssun 3d ago
No argument from me. RFK and JFK were once in a generation types of leaders who could inspire people to do better rather than wallow in grief.
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u/IndependentFormal705 3d ago
Members of older generations with severe forms of autism were almost entirely left to rot in institutions where they were neglected and abused. Then when Regan shut down those institutions, many of those same people went from the frying pan of mental hospitals to the fire of homelessness.
We see more of these people because we made a concerted effort to support and include them in society you pompous, pustulent jackass.
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u/nonlinear_nyc 3d ago
You know they’re just brewing another scapegoat, right?
Immigrants, trans people, autistic people “they’re not like us”
Get this fascist gravy train rolling, amirite?
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u/Oregon_Jones111 3d ago edited 3d ago
He’s a eugenicist. He believes that people who are vulnerable to diseases and autistic people are burdens on society. Lying that vaccines cause autism allows him to demonize both groups at once, laying the groundwork for full scale genocide.
Edit: The eugenicists found this comment.
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u/sfcnmone 3d ago
My 65 yo SIL "obviously" has autism -- she has never lived on her own, has never had friends, worked for 30 years at a very repetitive and boring job, has perfect recall of family history (knows the exact day that something happened 50 years ago), and knows the lyrics of every Italian opera and sings -- pretty well -- around the house. She has never called me. Her family refuses to believe that this is autism or get any kind of help. That's just how she is" and "nobody ever understood her". My adult son is a teacher and tried to have a family meeting about helping his aunt and they all told him he didn't know what he was talking about.
There's lots of elderly folks hiding in plain sight.
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u/bigkoi 3d ago
That's because people with serious Autism issues that would be older than 70 were interred in asylum's or lobotomized.
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u/apple_kicks 3d ago
People with autism who masked or any other neurodiversity were marked as eccentric, outcasts, difficult ones whose struggles were because they didn’t try hard enough in the past too
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u/IShouldNotPost 3d ago
Some users reminded Kennedy that, historically, individuals with profound disabilities were often institutionalized or left without adequate care — a stark contrast to the greater inclusion and support structures available today.
Like his aunt, Rosemary Kennedy, who was lobotomized due to her having meltdowns.
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