Bro they lobotomized your aunt
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RFK JR: ADD, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Narcolepsy, Autism.. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid.
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Yes, I’m older than him and he doesn’t remember the worst days of the ‘60s.
That's like... everything.
https://www.shruboak.org/nine-historical-figures-with-autism/
I mean I’m not shaming the man for it. But I do totally judge him for shaming people he doesn’t see as normal.
every single day.
Enter our new health chief—Ole Leatherface himself, a proud vaccine denier! What’s next? Bloodletting and leeches?
Welcome to The Twilight Zone, where science is fiction and chaos reigns.
Which itself is a little funny, and I say that as someone with ADHD.
Basically, anything THEY don't know about, doesn't EXIST b/c the ''world revolves around them''
-its also true many people who say "When I was a kid..." can't/won't accept that medicine keeps getting more advanced, AKA duh.
My god the joke of object permanence is not supposed to be this real
Also rfk is older then his father apparently
Times change, and we learn. Don’t be bound by what you remember as a kid.
That’s one point in his gish gallop down…
2) just because you didn't hear about these things during your decades-long coke bender doesn't mean they didn't exist
Tourette's - discovered in 1885
Narcolepsy - named by Karl Westphal in 1877
Autism - first named by Leo Kanner in 1943
This guy was born in 1954
I suspect you had little time to learn much about anything besides your drug of choice.
There are several books about it even.
But overall, I think what this is teaching me is that RFK not knowing about almost any medical condition is kinda just an RFK thing, not a society thing
And then the nanny told them.
are they even real things
People with any chronic illness that they bothered to learn about know more than him.
we live in the dumbest timeline
Hmmmm, Pluto wasn't discovered until 1930, so it was not there before then!
Oh look! Chained to the radiator in the insanitorium
Half-Jew, half-ranger?
Because make polio a thing again, I guess
look at what the HHS actually does, not just what their secretary says in front of cameras.
We usually learn about these things as our classmates and friends have them.
How hard Bobby must have worked–as a sympathetic child of a popular family–to alienate people even then
How wise Hyannis Port's children were. 😏