In 2017, when a nurse entered the room and told my wife and I was that our son Noah, who was at the second of time, was with autism, and the words did not destroy us. What they did is to wipe the fog of uncertainty, and provides a game plan that will make him receive all the support he needs.
For this reason, about eight years later, listen Robert F. Kennedy Junior – The Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services is now standing on the platform and describes children like my son as part of the “autism”, which is claimed to be “environmental toxins” whose name is not revealed, appears to be injured.
Kennedy stood in front of the cameras and announced that children like Noah “will never pay taxes, do not occupy any job, and never use a toilet.” He described autism as a “preventive disease” and promised to conduct a quick investigation of lightning to clarify the so -called environmental causes. He cleaned contracts of scientific research and equal to complex nervous growth with pollution.
This is the man responsible for directing the national health policy of the United States.
Let that drown.
This is not just wrong information. It is a fully new level of fear movement. It is the version of the twenty-first century of a deception artist in a laboratory coat-a smooth hadith, wrong promises, not science.
Let me tell you what an autism is In reality Similar.
Noah seems to be sitting on Earth, reading the names of each planet in our solar system-behind-because this is more enjoyable for him. It seems that he draws complex mazes in his notebook, as he invents characters with their own stories and sounds. He imitates his favorite episodes from “SpongBob SquarePants” and editing videos on his tablet that would make the Elma Schoonmaker a little jealous. It looks like joy, struggle and growth and Humanity.
It appears that the unusual adults with autism who came to them to meet, know and admire thanks to a series like “Love on the Spectrum” of Netflix, which provides what Kennedy clearly lacks: respect and understanding.
In three seasons, we saw that people with autism go to the dates, fall in love, marry – and yes, write poems, tell jokes and occupy jobs.
South Carolina’s beloved Tanner holds a full-time job in a hotel and lives with his colleagues in the room-which contributes to our society more than many people currently participating in the Trump administration.
Danny is a vibrant and fun woman who has a job, a deep love of animation, and the type of emotional intelligence that would leave most politicians in dust.
And Konor? A lover who is fully read from Georgia and has a special love for “Game of Thrones”, and has become a sense of social media because the world is in the dread of the respect he showed while he was at a date with the amazing Georgi. He has politely asked for approval – a word that our Potus may not be aware of it – before the husband participated in the first kiss in the backyard of his, under an umbrella, while it rains.
Not none of these adults are victims. None of them is burdens. None of them fits Kennedy’s cartoon photography.
Not only Kennedy’s words are completely inhuman, but read the room, his brothers. The speech came less than 24 hours after Victor Perez, a 17 -year -old teenager in Idaho, had autism, to rest nine times by the police this month. The four officers involved in the shooting were placed immediately on an administrative leave, and criminal and internal investigations were launched, as the Eastern Critical Accident Action Squad in the state of Idaho conducted an external investigation.
Kennedy reduces the rich and varied experiences of autistic people to a pierced line at his silent press conference.
And let’s be serious here: it’s also scientifically lazy.
The high diagnosis of autism is not some of the evil explosion. It is the result of extensive diagnostic standards, better awareness and broader access to assessments, especially in historically deprived societies. Pediatricians and psychologists say – as you know, actual experts – this is good news. This means that children get the support they need earlier, when the larger difference can happen.
But Kennedy rejects all of this. It leads the country back to credible land from vaccine conspiracies and the poisoned bone madness process-with the voices of people with actual autism and researchers who understand the complications of this situation.
Here is the simple truth: autism is not one thing. It is not something you pick up. It is not a single disorder. It is a group of neurological differences – mosaic forms of genetic, biological and environmental factors – and has lived by millions of individuals who deserve support, not doubt. Perhaps many people can include Read this column now who have not received an official diagnosis.
It is not a crisis. It is an invitation to include it. I don’t know if Noah will pay taxes one day. This is not because of his diagnosis – because it is because of It is 10.
But what I know is this: he is able. It is cute. He learns. He has already defied all the narrow predictions that were made.
And if I have to sit through another government official who turns my son into my voice for political capital, I will continue to write. aloud. Thus, the parents of millions of children with autism who suffer from photographing their children will reject, and there is no doubt that this hypothesis is in the ballot box.
My son is not a tragedy. It is not a burden. It is definitely not the point of conversation.
he no epidemic. It is Noah.
Therefore, in the words of Will Smith inspiring: Keep the name of my son outside your dreaded mouth.
