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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter is a Tragedy (www.mcsweeneys.net)

submitted 22 hours ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world

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You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage.

I’d like to introduce you to my daughter.

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah and also (even more crucially) no scientific education whatsoever

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Well sure, but he did "experiment" with drugs, which I mean... scientists do experiments, right?

[–] ConstableJelly@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago

I'll tell you something about heroin for me. I did very very poorly in school, until I started doing narcotics. Then I went to the top of my class because my mind was so restless and turbulent and I could not sit still. […] I'd probably today be diagnosed as ADHD, I was bouncing off the walls. I couldn't sit still, I just wanted to get in the woods. […] I started doing heroin, I went to the top of my class. Suddenly I could sit still, I could read, and I could concentrate, I could listen to what people were saying, things made sense to me. […] It worked for me. And if it still worked, I'd still be doing it. […] It killed my brother, and it destroys your relationships. It hollows out your whole life. You have a one-dimensional life. I was a bundle of appetites and it was a full time job to feed them, with drugs and sex and alcohol and extreme behavior.

Is he implying that an ADHD diagnosis would have been frivolous for him because...he self-medicated with heroin and it worked out dandy?? Hasn't he publicly criticized the rate of ADHD diagnoses and related medications?