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Really scary - RFK wants govt registry of Autistic people - Lilith7 - 24-04-2025
Didn't the Nazis also get information on people with mental health problems....
He claims its to try to find the cause
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/rfk-jr-autism-nih
But it has quite a few people very concerned
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-autism-medical-record-b2738201.html
Fact checking his comments on Autism
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-statements-on-autism
RE: Really scary - RFK wants govt registry of Autistic people - zqwerty - 24-04-2025
Remember what the Kennedys did to Rosemary, RFK jnr's great aunt I believe.
RE: Really scary - RFK wants govt registry of Autistic people - Zurdo - 25-04-2025
I did an online test for autism a few weeks ago...I know I know, online IQ test have everyone a genius. But it's about where we are on the autistic scale, we nearly all have some traits. I was 35 on a scale of 50. I have no idea what that really means, but am less autistic than someone with a score of 45, and more than someone with 15. It's ridiculous to claim there is a cause or a cure.
RE: Really scary - RFK wants govt registry of Autistic people - Lilith7 - 25-04-2025
I wouldn't trust their govt with a registry of anything.
RE: Really scary - RFK wants govt registry of Autistic people - king1 - 25-04-2025
First on that registry will be Elon Musk
RE: Really scary - RFK wants govt registry of Autistic people - zqwerty - 25-04-2025
Yes Musk is Aspergers at the very least and more likely full on high functioning Autistic coupled with ADHD, but tending towards normal, he is showing classic symptom of lack of empathy though and misreading social cues.
RE: Really scary - RFK wants govt registry of Autistic people - harm_less - 25-04-2025
(25-04-2025, 04:15 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Yes Musk is Aspergers at the very least and more likely full on high functioning Autistic coupled with ADHD, but tending towards normal, he is showing classic symptom of lack of empathy though and misreading social cues.Musk has publicly stated he has Aspergers, which is under the Autism spectrum.
RE: Really scary - RFK wants govt registry of Autistic people - zqwerty - 25-04-2025
Since nobody has mentioned it here's what happened to Rosemary Kennedy, it's what made people of the world war 2 generations so fearful of being called mentally ill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
Kennedy was "becoming increasingly irritable and difficult." my understanding is that the "difficult" part was sexual promiscuity which in those days in the circles her family moved in was a big no-no.
RE: Really scary - RFK wants govt registry of Autistic people - Lilith7 - 26-04-2025
(25-04-2025, 10:58 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Since nobody has mentioned it here's what happened to Rosemary Kennedy, it's what made people of the world war 2 generations so fearful of being called mentally ill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
Kennedy was "becoming increasingly irritable and difficult." my understanding is that the "difficult" part was sexual promiscuity which in those days in the circles her family moved in was a big no-no.
Poor women, a frontal lobotomy is extreme. There was a movie about Frances Farmer,who also had a frontal lobotomy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Farmer
RE: Really scary - RFK wants govt registry of Autistic people - zqwerty - 26-04-2025
Yes Francis Farmer was another one who made people fearful of being found to be mentally ill and inappropriate steps taken, my mother was one of them who held this neurotic fear all her life.