‘Disgusting’ RFK Jr slammed for saying autistic kids ‘will never have a job’

RFK JR. said today that children with autism will face a lot of “nevers” in their lives, including never holding a job and never going on a date.

RFK Jr.’s wild claim went further than just saying kids with autism will never have a job or fall in love, as according to him, they won’t be able to play sports, write creatively, or use the bathroom unattended either. “These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” RFK Jr. said.

RFK Jr.’s baseless claims left him to receive a lot of heat on X as users called him “cruel” and “dehumanizing” for making such a statement on live television while providing zero evidence.

“This is cruel, ableist rhetoric masquerading as concern. RFK Jr. reduces children with disabilities to economic burdens and stripped humanity,” a user wrote on X under a clip of RFK making the statement posted by the X user Acyn.

“This kind of blanket statment is harmful, dehumanizing and flat-out wrong,” another wrote.

“This is f****** disgusting,” another commented.

“This absolutely disgusting. He is vile,” another wrote in the comments.

“Guess he’s never seen Love on the Spectrum?” another posted on X.

During his speech today, RFK Jr. made another claim about autism while providing no evidence to support his theory.

RFK Jr. recently said autism is a “preventable disease” caused by “environmental exposure” and added that “it has to be, genes do not cause epidemics.”

While the one exact cause of autism is not known, researchers have reported that there can be multiple causes of the disorder, leaving the processing of pinpointing one cause to be complex.

However, researchers have made it clear that genetics have a large part to play in diagnosing the disorder.

In his speech, Kennedy cited a recent statistic from the CDC that found 1 in 31 children are diagnosed with autism by the age of 8 in America.

He then vowed to find the cause of the “disease” by September, despite researchers and scientists studying the disorder for multiple decades without being able to do so.

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“By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic, and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures,” Kennedy said in a cabinet meeting earlier this month.

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