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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - IF RFK JR. IS WRONG ... WHY ARE 1 IN 36 KIDS DISABLED?
What really gets me about the way Democrats attack RFK Jr. is this:
For the sake of argument, let's say they're completely right about autism. Let's take the most generous possible explanation for the rise from 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 36 kids. Let's say it's all just "increased awareness" and looser diagnostic criteria. No environmental causes. No toxins. Nothing to see here.
Okay. Then explain this to me:
Why does our society now feel the need to label 1 in 36 children as disabled?
That's not a small jump. That's over 25 times more kids than a generation ago. If the kids themselves haven't changed, then what has?
The answer: our society.
Thirty years ago, a socially awkward kid with a laser focus and no patience for small talk might have grown up to become an inventor or a founder. Now he gets flagged by teachers, funneled into therapy, maybe medicated, and labeled for life.
Meanwhile:
• Schools now reward groupthink over independent work.
• Workplaces punish individualism in the name of DEI.
• "Brilliant jerk" is now a corporate slur.
I've literally been sent to HR, for allegedly being sexist toward another woman... just because I was blunt.
And if you speak out about the forced messaging in video games or shows, you get mobbed or canceled, like @Grummz.
If RFK Jr.'s critics are right, then what they’re really saying is this: we've built a society where normal human variation is treated as a pathology. And somehow he's the crazy one for pointing that out?
Something is deeply broken here.
The real problem isn't RFK Jr., it's what we've become, and what we're doing to our kids.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1913406951918321938

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Hello Governor Pritzker,
You are making the same mistake Senator Warren made: erasing the autistic spectrum to score political points.
I am profoundly deaf. I have never made a phone call. Every aspect of life-banking, communication, work-requires planning. Mild autism is part of my story too, but it’s not the point.
The point is this: disability is not always an identity to be celebrated. It is always a daily grind of inaccessibility, frustration, and exclusion.
You speak as if to seek understanding for conditions like autism is an insult. That position is not just ignorance; it's erasure. It denies the reality of individuals whose autism is not quirky, not "differently-abled," but disabling.
RFK Jr. is willing to ask the hard questions. He is talking about children who self-injure. About adults who will never live independently. About families burning out as caretakers. That is part of the spectrum too. Pretending otherwise does not elevate neurodivergence, it silences the people most affected by it.
What you are doing is the political equivalent of holding up someone with reading glasses and saying, "See? We don’t need research into blindness. We celebrate it!"
You are not standing with the autistic community. You are standing with a narrow, handpicked segment of it—those whose stories are easiest to politicize.
Stop scoring points. Start listening.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1913345404051296642

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Congressman Crockett,
I'm done offering patient, thoughtful replies to Democrats who'd rather score points than engage honestly. It's exhausting.
Being ASD1 or ASD2 is already a daily grind. That doesn't even begin to touch the reality of ASD3, which RFK Jr. has actually tried to understand.
Why would anyone oppose research that could make our lives easier? Why mock someone for trying to find root causes?
Oh. Right.
Because it's not about us. It's about looking good in front of the cameras. You're not defending autistic people. You're performing allyship to earn applause.
So, respectfully. Get off your high horse.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1913791072272265284
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