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Kennedy, Autism, and Asperger’s
It’s difficult to pay attention to a nutcase, but maybe he is on to something.
When I was a kid, autism was unheard of. Kennedy says that according to a study published in a ‘top tier medical journal’, it was one in 900,000 children in Wisconsin. Now I don’t know which ‘top-tier medical journal,’ and I don’t know the statistics, but there are many things about ‘autism’ that I question.
The numbers of people born autistic
I’m going to post a screenshot of the numbers that Kennedy mentioned in his interview with Hannity.
I also want to post something else that Kennedy said. It’s valid, and it also does away with this idea that autistic people are very clever. No, they are not. The vast majority, as defined by the latest verbiage ‘on the spectrum’ allows for a great deal of inaccuracy.