Are people just realizing now that he's unfit for his job?
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
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Yeah. That's how stupid America really is. Worse than Carlin ever thought possible.
"He was in fact, exactly that stupid..." - Ron Howard
Hey, that 65 year old neighbor with the $200k model trainset? Yeah, probably autistic.
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The inside of RFK Jrs head be like…..
Don't insult Brain like that! He is legitimately smart and does what he can given his circumstances (he is a literal lab rat in a lab that he has to escape from every night... and his only companion is barely functional).
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'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
He's even more stupid than they are acknowledging.
Yes, I was going to post "hearing CAN be that stupid".
I'm sorry but if you can listen to RFK speak for longer than 10 seconds without becoming enraged then you really are just fucking dumb.
oh yes he can be, just look at that face
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
Short answer: if they got it bad, they're dead or in a nursing home. That's why they aren't walking in a mall. They ran out of health.
Long answer: in recent times, there seems to be lower threshold of diagnosis.
But if he truly thinks he can pinpoint exposures that increase autism - things like the exposure to tetraethyl lead which probably increased criminality and decreased mental health - good luck for combing scientific studies. There may be some. But if he's gonna rewind the age old "vaccines cause" record and replay it, nah, I won't be listening.
They're going to blame flouride for sure
Way too many rural (i.e. well water) cases for that to even make a good scapegoat.
It's not that there's a lower threshold. It's that the definitions and our understanding of Autism changed. People who formerly would have been labeled with Asperger's are now labeled (correctly) with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Plus we've learned how Autism can present differently in other communities that aren't white male children. Acknowledging that girls can even be Autistic is a relatively recent development (the 90s).
The truth is that there are likely a ton of people out there with undiagnosed Autism, because they wouldn't have met the criteria to be diagnosed as kids based on our understanding at the time. It's why there are so many adults now getting late life diagnoses.
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He looks like that old stress squeeze toy
That thing looks the killer in a horror movie franchise.
Don't give Hollywood any new ideas.
I love how this is the hill people finally die on, and not the other absolutely wild shit this guy has said before he even got this gig, like collecting roadkill or his extremely well documented conspiracy-esque, anti-vaccine history.
Look, he's killing people. He should be arrested and go to trial for criminal negligence and manslaughter. Like the rest of the bunch.
But they can't even say it lol. "oh, some people touted!"
There was a thread on reddit that had someone speculate that he is an indirect serial killer. Meaning he tries to influence people into doing 'healthy' things that are anything but and keep bullying them into them until he results in their health declining to the point that they die. He had a relative that he did this to. The justice system isn't built for that kind of stuff and proving it there would be damn near impossible unless he somehow confesses to it.
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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.
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.