There are many things that pissed me off about RFK Jrs speech about Austin, but above all else- it was the idea that autism ruins families.
No it doesn’t. You ruin families Robert.
When you say how scary autism is, how some people can’t use the bathroom without having a supervisor with them, when you say they’ll never be able to hold a job (note- he didn’t say “some of them won’t be able to hold a job” which- is infuriating as an autistic who’s been working at retail for half a decade now), you end up demoralizing parents, and make them doubt their own abilities.
You should be offering encouragement. It shouldn’t need to be said that spouting off how “autism ruins families! Oh it’s horrible!” isn’t going to fix anything. You don’t actually care about the families- lest you’d be offering services to help raise autistic children. You just hate autistic people.
Autism speaks is the same way btw.