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Really, we're still on this Jenny McCarthy nonsense?
Well that's not great. This is the kind of shit why I haven't wanted to get diagnosed. Granted I'm already in it deep for being trans and that resulting million mile paper trail...
Behind the Bastards has a good couple episodes about what happens when people say they can cure autism (spoilers: many children die horribly)
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It's Eugenics, this is them warming you up to forced sterilisation. This is Timesplitters shit, let's just kill the Billionaires. Come on.
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Yeah that's totally something we did Nazi coming.
They going to start camps for "fixing" disabled people and those with autism or ADHD? Might as well throw trans and gay people under the banner "illness" right?
These Nazis need to fuck right off!
We need to organize an autism rights movement and fight back against this
Look! The man with an IQ of 6 wants to keep tabs on autistic people like myself who clearly have above average IQ! Though, to be fair, it's not that hard to have an IQ higher than 60.
So they are going to round up half the people working in big tech and media?
HIPAA? What's that?
A couple things I would like to highlight for the unfamiliar, and I'll preface this by saying that I am autistic myself.
First, autism is not something for which there are any clear medical indicators, no blood tests or brain scans or anything of the sort are involved in diagnosis. It's entirely subjective and observational, something that states entrust people who are ostensibly professionals to determine.
I point this out because I want people to understand that there is absolutely nothing stopping the present administration from hiring people (or using AI) to simply diagnose undesirables with autism through whatever criteria they decide to deem fit.
This might sound absurd, but we're seeing people with nothing but tattoos being transformed into "criminals", "gang members", and "terrorists" by similar logic.
Second, Asperger was a Nazi, and the child euthanasia program was one of the main projects which experimented with the tools and machinery of mass murder that would later be used in extermination camps. Zyklon B was tested on autistic children and other "diseased offspring" long before it was ever used in the gas chambers.
How long do you think it will take before they are using AI to comb through the social media and medical records of teens looking for any indications of anything they don't like, and flagging them as potentially autistic? September has been RFK's set date since he first started talking about it, and people have been puzzling about that from the beginning. September is the start of the school year.
Lists are not neutral; they are tools of social hierarchy and ideological enforcement.
Creating a national database of autistic people could grow from “support services” to stigmatizing surveillance or work farms—especially if the one proposing it has a history of pseudoscientific views or conspiracy ideation, as RFK Jr. does.
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And just last week he spent time dehumanizing autistic people boldly saying that they’ll never have a good life and they’ll never pay taxes (let’s emphasize that part). They are a monolith of “useless eaters” regardless if they are “productive” members of society (have jobs) to shit stains like RFK Jr. Like others have stated this isn’t going to stop. Anyone who dares to reach out to therapists and take Rx meds to help them normalize brain chemistry is next (Wellness Farms!)
claimed “he can find a cure for the condition by September.”
Is it camping? Oh boy do I hope it’s camping!
It’s brainworm infested bear meat.
What's crazy is that it's perfect. Getting rid of autistic people is exactly the intellectual purging that fascists want when they get into power.
I know not every autistic person is "an intellectual" but many transgressive artists and radical leftist college professors are autistic.
This is fucking terrifying. How is this not a HIPAA violation?
Edit: Fixed spelling. What can we do to protect ourselves and loved ones?!
Because it's called HIPAA, not HIPPA. The second P is the one that stands for privacy.
Fifty years ago, doctors would protect their patients by accidentally losing certain files if they didn't think the authorities had a good reason for seeing them. Under HIPAA, they're required to keep and maintain good records in case the government subpoenas them.
For those trying to keep the spelling straight, it helps me to think the last two letters stand for "Accountability Act" meaning it can never be spelled "HIPPA" as there is only one "a".
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I bet at some point soon he’s gonna suggest the creation of camps for ADHD-havers to help them concentrate better. We can call them “concentration camps”.
Wait… wait no no NO NO N-
Yep, I remember seeing that a while ago. That’s what I was referencing.
Pretty sure he's already done that.
sigh he did already say that
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/rfk-wellness-farms-us-disabilities
Oh yay.
The resulting court case, Buck v. Bell, went all the way to the Supreme Court, where Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who wrote for the majority, declared in reference to Carrie, her birth mother, and Carrie's daughter that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” In the end, Carrie Buck was sterilized against her will. Buck v. Bell was never overturned, and 31 states still allow the forced sterilization of disabled people, according to a 2022 report from the National Women’s Law Center.
Land of the free. Yeah, right.
“Fund a cure” — a solution, as it were.
finally!
This must be the final solution to autism
OK, how are they getting consent for this from the subjects? I do basic research with tissue from patients and if they change their mind and revoke consent, we are legally obligated to destroy any remaining tissue or data.
Based on recent history, Trump will declare some sort of national health emergency that will allow him to ignore laws and court orders that get in his way.
Consent is required only if you believe in the law.