According to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., people with autism are “broken,” and many of them “will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job.”
Of course, that’s complete nonsense. Many autistic people hold jobs, pay taxes, and are anything but broken.
It’s incredibly ironic that Kennedy would dare to call anyone broken, considering that he was a heroin addict for 14 years and also claims that a parasitic worm ate part of his brain.
Oh, and Kennedy also wants to start what he calls an autism registry, which sounds like the sort of thing the Nazis would have created so they’d know exactly who to ship to a concentration camp for elimination.
Broken? Not according to a brave 4th-grade New Jersey boy named Teddy, who responded to Kennedy.
In a video that has gone viral on TikTok, Teddy begins, “Recently, the U.S. secretary of health, RFK Jr., made false comments about autism like people with autism are broken, that autism is caused by vaccines, and that people with autism will never have jobs or families. But that’s not true. I have autism and I’m not broken, and I hope that nobody in Princeton Public Schools believes RFK Jr.’s lies.”
“PPS already recognizes Autism Awareness Month,” Teddy continues. “But not much. There are posters in the cafeteria that say to be kind and inclusive. Students wear blue on April 2nd. But we are never taught about the spectrum of autism.”
“Kids need to be taught more about the different kinds of autism, that autism is a natural variation in the genes that you are born with (NOT caused by vaccines), and about successful people with autism. The lessons should also be extended to other disabilities, like ADHD, cerebral palsy, blindness, deafness, dyslexia, apraxia, and more.”
“I want everyone to know that people with autism and other disabilities are not tragedies, but just different, like all people. If everyone understood more about autistic people, and about people with other disabilities, they would know more about how to treat them, what their lives are like, and that they don’t need to be fixed or cured.”
“This will help kids with disabilities have a better life. When people are aware of disabilities and are accepting them, they will have friends and less bullying. Also, the teachers might be more aware because they learned about the disabilities also.”
“Kids and teachers should know more about disabilities so they do not believe RFK Jr. is right about autism, and they choose to treat them in a way that is good for the kid. By knowing more about it, kids and teachers will be nicer to kids with disabilities.”
Teddy concludes his remarks with this powerful flourish of rhetoric:
“Kids and teachers should know more about disabilities so they do not believe RFK Jr. is right about autism, and they choose to treat them in a way that is good for the kid. By knowing more about it, kids and teachers will be nicer to kids with disabilities.”
“PPS must add this to the curriculum of all grades and students, so we don’t have people like RFK Jr. in the future.”
Here’s the video:
