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Why are they so obsessed with autism... oh right eugenics.
At the heart of the issue, ~~the giant prolapsed anus~~ RFK Jr describes autism as a "preventable disease". Contemporary medicine classifies it as a disorder. Words have meaning and have implicit intention. This is eugenics.
Why is everyone jumping at eugenics when RFK Jr. behaves generally and on this subject like a typical person (of the generation exactly right for that) who's been frightened to death in the childhood by a suspicion that they may be autistic, or some event like a meltdown in unfortunate circumstances, so now has that idea that autism can be cured, because he thinks he's been cured. Or something like that.
Now, I'm extrapolating a very specific case of my dad (had ideas similar to RFK Jr's on health for some purposes ; I can't find a system in separating cases where he feared doctors as if they were spreading black death, and would pick a fortuneteller over them, and cases where he trusted any medical worker over anything I had to say), whom I know to have had such childhood trauma for certain.
I mean, with a guy who likes spending time alone with wild animals, eats raw meat and jumps from honest climate protection activities to this, and reportedly has weird sexual habits, and also talks like RFK Jr. does, suspecting him to be autistic doesn't seem weird in the least. And then variants connected to him being probably autistic pop up.
I mean, this may lead to eugenics, but this may also be RFK Jr. stupidity and some trauma. I'm repeating myself, stopping.
Don't carry water for this administration. Especially if you have relatives with autism. Like other posters have written, it doesn't matter where this comes from, it matters where it ends, and if eugenics is even a plausible outcome you and everybody you know should be against it.
I'm compensating people carrying water for something unknown. It's better to not argue in the directions unknown just because they are opposite to known bad.