Comment by jsheard
1 day ago
> shortly after the abolishment of lobotomy
That's an important bit of context whenever RFK Jr. talks about how conditions like Autism and ADHD weren't a thing when he was growing up - his own aunt, who may well have had one of those conditions, was dealt with by giving her a lobotomy and then hiding her away. Those are the supposedly better times he's harkening back to.
Lobotomy was not given to young children even when it was a thing...
> who was one of the youngest survivors of the transorbital lobotomy, a procedure performed on him when he was 12 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dully
You can detect autism in kids before they are 5... So my point still stands
In this case lobotomy was put on a non consenting 23 year old. So much better?