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I still... maybe it's my years working construction, but when I look at RFK Jr. - his mannerisms and gestures and speech patterns and connection (or lack thereof) to reality - I see a tweaker, clear as a bell.
One of Donald's cabinet? Unfit?!?
Again?
People started having kids at later age. My parents were 36 and 37 when I was born, so here I am, mildly autistic.
On top of that, I'd never have known if I didn't go to a psychologist and ask my doctor.
My dad likely is autistic too. Just never went to a psychologist in his life. (He's the last child of 6 kids, so his parents were likely old at that stage too)
If it's not causing serious impairment, people won't seek information about it. There's a ton of people with neurodivergency that live perfectly fine lives.
It's the overactive amygdala that caused me the most impairment anyways, not autism. Luckily, that can be helped with a simple medicine.
I don't understand the downvotes here. Parental age has in fact been identified as a risk factor for more than a decade.
But also, just being on the spectrum is not problematic. And, as you point out, a lot of people are probably somewhere on the spectrum but are undiagnosed because (in the US, at least) we generally don't seek medical attention unless we're experiencing some sort of crisis.
oh so now he's unfit?
"Have you ever seen anyone...71 years old, with full-blown autism?" Kennedy asked. "Head-banging, nonverbal, non-toilet trained, spinning, toe-walking...these other stereotypical features?"
"Where are these people walking around the mall? You can't find them," he said. "They're not in homes, there are no homes for them, there are no institutions... anybody can look around and see that this is a canard."
I keep seeing the Forest Gump quote overlayed over him whenever I see one of his posts, "I am not a bright man."
Also, there very much are older people like this. My mother worked with severe people my entire life. The elder autistic exist.
When I was very, very little, I remember my mom saying that they're shutting down all of the institutions and she was worried about where they would all go. I didn't really get what she meant at the time, now I get it.
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THIS MAN HAS A WORM IN HIS BRAIN.
How we allowed him to lead the HHS is beyond me.
Honey, he's a worm in a meatsuit. I'm not quite sure how much of the man was left.
Everyone in Donald’s Admin is fucking stupid. Donald blaming dei… as everyone else is saying merit.
It must be A1. It’s all computer!
Unfortunately lots of old folks think this way, actually today in the morning this same topic was brought up at breakfast by my mom, she was not being disrespectful necessarily but still is incredible how she cannot see that herself might be autistic and just never got a diagnosis
When I hear something along the lines of "there is no way someone can be that stupid." I think about 2 things.
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How dumb the average person is and realize half the population is dumber than that.
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The interview of a Yosemite Park Ranger discussing the difficulty of designing the perfect bear proof trash can. The ranger is quoted as saything,"there is a considerable intelligence overlap between the smartest bear and the dumbest human."
All the people who made the boomer neurodivergents disappear either have dementia or are long gone. Easy scapegoat.
Not to mention that there are heavy correlations between queer identities and Autism. A lot of neurodivergent Boomers likely died during the AIDS epidemic, unfortunately.
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