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Comment by nailer

12 hours ago

> He's not being "incredibly clear" because he speaks about autistic people with one broad brush.

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const_cast  11 hours ago

No, this is always the defense people come up when RFK says something insane.

It's not deepfake, it's not edited, he is just actually a crazy person. Yes, he truly believes HIV doesn't cause AIDS. Yes, he truly believes vaccines don't work.

We should not be listening to him on anything, let alone things that actually matter. There are people living on the side of the road with more credibility and reasonableness than him. And, we will not be gaslit by his defenders who, I can only assume, are equally as insane as him.

  • nailer  8 hours ago

    It’s edited. Watch the full thing, he says ‘to be clear I’m not talking about (high functioning people)’ but rather a group of children who seem to have a sudden onset of autistic symptoms at two. Seriously just watch it.

ModernMech  11 hours ago

As far as I can tell I've heard all the words from that man and his surrogates. What are the words that have been said which I have not heard, which would clear all this up?

  • nailer  8 hours ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43826940

    • ModernMech  5 hours ago

      Like I said, I've heard all those words already. They don't clear anything up. I'm asking you if there are more words I haven't heard.

      Here's the transcript: https://singjupost.com/rfk-jr-holds-press-conference-on-new-...

      When he speaks here he says things like:

        So about 25% of the kids who are diagnosed with autism are nonverbal, non-toilet trained, and have other stereotypical features, headbanging, tactile and light sensitivities, stimming, toe-locking, et cetera.

      Aside from not being toilet trained, the rest of that applies to me. So am I "profoundly autistic"? I mean, maybe but at the same time I don't think that's really what he means. So you can see my confusion. Is he talking about me or isn't he? Because he's listing off things I do all the time, and calling the these features of "profound autism".

      He also says:

        "with full-blown autism, headbanging, non-verbal, non-toilet trained, stimming, toe walking, these other stereotypical features. "

      Again, not incredibly clear by my reading. Very broad brush being applied here.

      In the whole speech, he doesn't refer to autism as a "spectrum" disorder once until he's prompted by a reporter in those terms. Telling, because he clearly views autism as a binary of high/low functioning or high/low needs, which it's not. So again, painting autism with a broad brush.

      Then there's this:

        Then you have to ask yourself, why is it so pervasive? Why has it been thrown up against us for so many years? Clearly, there are industries. This is coming from an environmental toxin. Somebody made a profit by putting that environmental toxin into our air, our water, our medicines, our food. It’s to their benefit to normalize it, to say, this is all normal. It’s always been here.

      Yeah, so let me get this straight, RFK says this and yet it's the autism community who you think are the conspiracy theorists?

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