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Emma Cieslik says the “treatment” of RFK junior autism is less related to Tylenol than “captures” autism people who do not want or need to be repaired.
September 22 President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that they were annoyed for a long time, and that autism like me like me. Despite many years of scientific and medical evidence to prove that it is safe, Trump said that acetaminophen (often referred to as the brand tylenol) during pregnancy may be associated with a very increased risk of autism. ” This deteriorates: short and Kennedy also introduced drug leukovorin, a form of folic acid, commonly used to treat side effects in cancer patients as possible to “cure” autism.
This message is disastrous and unreasonable, reinforcing the wrong idea that autism is something that can and needs to be cured. In addition, he also arms healing, claiming that autists should not exist. Autism is a way to process information and communicate with the world differently, not flaws. When someone promises to heal what is not a disease, such as autism, healing becomes a weapon to pathologize the same thing as it must be corrected.
As an autistic, I grew up in the ability inside Kennedy specifically thinks now. Most of my life was led by my parents, doctors and supporters who had some social capital but not necessarily a national scene. Kennedy, who has spread misinformation about the obvious “cause” of autism for a long time, is now doing so. Although Kennedy could use his platform to concentrate on access to availability and to enliven more engaging schools and jobs, he decides to use it to claim that autism is associated with vaccines, “environmental toxins” and now tylenol. People who have long sought dialogue about food purity, fighting Vikak and Medical denial to get into the main things, found their champion Kennedy. For autistic people like me, we found one of the biggest threats.
Autism was historically misunderstood, so our community was violated by violence and violence. Based on 2024 The report, evidence shows that autists are more prone to survival violence than the population. And lawyers told NBC News that people with autism and other disabilities are violated by police violence due to a major misunderstanding of autism and our needs. Before officially acknowledged autism, people with disabilities and neurodivergents encountered great discrimination and violence.
In Nazi Germany, eugenic rhetoric was used to isolate and try to form autistical children into “productive citizens”, according to Edith Sheffer’s book. Those who could not be formed by joining state institutions.
During the brief and Kennedy report and over months until this moment, it sounded this deeply disturbing story. Kennedy said last April that children were diagnosed with autism at a “alarming speed”. The press conference took place just one day after the CDC published a report that estimated that 1 in 31 children had autism. “Autism destroys families,” he said, “but more importantly, it destroys our biggest source – our children.”
Kennedy wrongly claimed that autistic children would never pay taxes, keep work or play baseball. His comments were strongly criticized by autistic and activist networks, who argued that his words strengthened the wrong idea that autism was a disease, and denied the contribution and validity of autism in the US. That’s not all. National Director of Health Institutes dr. Jay Bhattacharya said he would create a register of autistic persons, Nazi registers that have done disabled, echoes that have caused so much damage. NPR reports that HHS sources say it will not be an autism register and a “real -world data platform”. May Kennedy stated that the National Health Institutes will work with Medicare & Medicaid service centers to create database collection information from medical records, portable devices and insurance claims to find “the main cause of autism”.
“We use this partnership to reveal the main causes of autism and other chronic illnesses,” Kennedy said in a report, and only last month’s Kennedy Autism Database has received the name: the monitoring of autism development disabilities.
Many people forget that, for example, conversion therapy for LGBTQs, efforts to cure autism are based on the idea that something is essentially wrong or corrected for us. The efforts of this capable conversion are a form of colonization that praise the determined expression of gender, sexuality and working nature. Kennedy decides to spread Geattist rhetoric in the national arena, promising to partially make America healthy, rejecting the autism American personality. The proposal to cure is a threat to who we are, because it claims not only because we should not exist, but there are tangible ways to stop more people like us, born.
Today, this treatment does not allow pregnant people from taking Tylenol, but as people with disabilities, we know that this is probably not the last treatment – and we are afraid of what will happen next.
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