A 🧵 with poem on RFK, Jr.'s indifference to human beings on the autism spectrum. Read the poem in the first or last post of the thread, your choice. Amidst the blizzard of disturbing news this month, Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s remarks on autism stand out as some of the more frightening parts. (1/6) - ThreadSky

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dlbvenice.bsky.social • 1 day ago

A 🧵 with poem on RFK, Jr.'s indifference to human beings on the autism spectrum. Read the poem in the first or last post of the thread, your choice.

Amidst the blizzard of disturbing news this month, Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s remarks on autism stand out as some of the more frightening parts. (1/6)

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dlbvenice.bsky.social•1 day ago

For those with autism and we love them (and, TBH, anyone with a clue), the echoes of eugenicists past are hard to miss. The lack of compassion, the extreme language about what is in truth a nuanced spectrum of actual conditions, (2/6)

dlbvenice.bsky.social•1 day ago

and the simplification of complexity into a single word that compress multi-dimensional people into a single despairing point -- all these are the familiar dismissals by the privileged of those who they deem lesser.
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dlbvenice.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ultimately the true remedy to this kind of stony indifference is not anger—although anger has utility in motivating us. But it is our love of others, whether son or daughter, sibling or parent, relative or friend, that is the antidote.
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dlbvenice.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thus, I was touched deeply by a poem I read and now want to share with you. It is by one of my brilliant nieces, Caitlyn, about her brother. I only wish that RFK, Jr. would read and understand it and retract his ill-considered and inhumane words.
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dlbvenice.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you, Caitlyn, for reminding us of what we humans can be on our better days. (6/6)

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