Elizabeth McClellan, an autistic poet, responds to RFK Jr.'s derogatory remarks about autism in Mother Jones.
"I am not only living evidence that someone can be autistic and a poet, I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week, because I don’t think he can do it."
"What has he ever really done, other than have a last name?"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/rfk-kennedy-hhs-autism-diagnoses-poet/
RFK Jr saying the quiet part out loud…
In an article about autism, he talks about how autistic people will never pay taxes, hold a job, go on a date etc. “worthless”. Useless eaters.
This is straight up eugenics.
It’s also wrong. Many people with autism or disabilities can do ALL these things, but our worth should not be predicated on that.
Everyone has intrinsic value regardless of economic ability or contribution.
Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/neurodivergent-people-have-always
The idea that the neurodiversity is a 'recent development' and hasn't been shaping all of human society forever is as wrong as it is unhelpful
My latest post explains
Suggest Fedi Block @icedquinn@blob.cat
Who is promoting Russia propaganda and agreeing with Donald Trump, claiming Ukraine is a dictatorship.
And anytime someone backs them into a corner, they claim "oh, I do not care, I am only being autistic".
There are many people who have disabilities and a disability does not encourage people to promote Russian propaganda and then use the excuse of that disability, whenever they fail to sway people.
#LateDiagnosedAutistic #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
Credit to @kayatoastforthesoul.sg
Listening to Taylor Swift while watching the office on my ipad and smoking my Pumpkin Spice pipe tobacco
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