When I think about RFK Jr. and his stance on autism, I can’t help but think about how his aunt was lobotomized because she had an intellectual disability.
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That's where he learned the behavior he's doing now. He got to witness eugenics in action, including how easily she was just disappeared from the entire family's lives and thoughts.
Where do you think he got his ideas? Uncle Teddy killed a woman, and he got off unscathed. His aunt was dismissed as a problem, despite her institutionalization being merely about convenience for the Kennedy’s.
Teddy too.
They're held up as the darling family of the US. They are far from it. And I say that as an Irish person. They're held as saints here and they are anything but.
Believe me, as a New Englander, we saw first hand that the Kennedy clan are not the saints they are made out to be. Not by a long shot. They have giant entitled feet of clay.
She was lobotomized bc she was to „free“. Her father didn’t want her to embarrass the family (he didn’t want her to become a fallen woman-he hated that she liked partying and sex)
You can’t just ignore her verifiable developmental disability. It’s bad to lobotomize developmentally disabled people, no need to erase an essential part of who she was in favor of a narrative of “spirited” women being mutilated for bad behavior.
There is also speculation that Rosemary wasn't actually "retarded" but just depressed and rebellious. Basically she was lobotomized for embarrassing the family by not being a hard-charger like the rest of them. Unimaginable cruelty to do that to your own child.
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I wonder if she might have been diagnosed “on the spectrum” by today’s measures?
Or maybe he's just an unscrupulous anti science asshole.
We may never know.
They're held up as the darling family of the US. They are far from it. And I say that as an Irish person. They're held as saints here and they are anything but.
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