Im canadian but its fuckin weird esp with them not quality testing milk anymore, seems like they want to intentionally spread pathogens to get ppl on a list
I’m a grown-up, higher-functioning autistic adult, enough that some people might not even notice my autism. Yet, I’m terrified for my fellow people on the spectrum and/or those raising one, especially one who needs a lot of accommodations. I live in Washington, one of the most progressive blue states, which makes me more comforted. But I never thought that we would be rolling back decades of autism research because of propaganda. Regardless, I never have nor will I ever be ashamed of being a neurodivergent man. No matter what the government does, we aren’t going away, at least not easily.
I earned people about what was coming months ago, when “make America healthy again” was the bullshit du jour. It was ALWAYS going to be eugenics. It was always going to be “people like X are worthless individuals and should be eliminated to make America healthy again” and it wasn’t even fucking subtle.
I am not autistic, but I have a problem with a government registry of persons with any medical diagnosis. Seems to me it could become an authoritarian tool to sort out fodder for the biomass plant. And I am not normally prone to conspiracy theories. Just sayin’.
It’s time to shut everything down. Things are not okay. Nobody is safe anymore. It’s the disabled people, it’s trans people, it’s immigrants. It’s all of us slaving day after day to capitalism while our taxes fund genocide in Gaza.
Something needs to change. And soon. And neurotypicals who claim to support us have a great opportunity here to Fucking show it
Fully support. I’ve caused a lot of damage to those around me. Something needs to be done to neutralize my influence and the influence of those around me.
When this was first brought up, I decided to stop being civil in any manner with republicans. It ended a relationship with my old neighbor in a nasty way, but she supports Trump still, and thus endorses my nonexistence. So fuck her.
I’m not autistic but have friends with autistic children. The fact that they’re even collecting smartwatch data is so beyond fucked I have no words. One friend has a severely autistic teen who is borderline violent, and she refuses to believe this will affect them in anyway but also said if they ‘wanted to take him away, that’s fine’.
Another friend has 2 autistic elementary age children and she’s terrified because she actually cares about her kids.
As a low support needs autistic adult, it’s both scary and very sad to think of this rhetoric being pushed. Most autistic people live perfectly “normal” lives and those who can’t still have a place and value in the world. I feel like we were just reaching a point as a society where autism was becoming accepted (more or less.)On a morbid and half joking note, if the plan is to sterilize us- I’m not mad about free sterilization.
Why is this a priority? Is it to scramble up statistics on vaccines and autism so they can work up a study that presents correlation as causation so that it only convinces uneducated people?
I’m just doing everything in my power not to fall into overwhelm and despair right now. I was diagnosed when I was 9, it’s on a lot of my medical records, there’s no escaping whatever they’re going to do with this information. Let it be known that they don’t make a registry like this with perfectly innocent intentions, and you’re a fool if you think they are.
None of my loved ones are diagnosed autistic, so. That’s the consolation I’m going to take right now.
I’m scared. Now we don’t know what they intend to do with this registry but it’s definitely not hard to see what they can do with it, especially since this administration is so ok with Nazi ideology. We and the entire disability community need to be vigilant, this could get ugly.
I’m literally terrified for my children. Both of my children are autistic. One of them needs more support and is on Medicaid, so I know his name is probably already in their database. Sure, they do their “research” and then what? Take our autistic friends and family members to “cure” them.
I know I might be overreacting, but if I’ve learned anything since January, it’s that they will do anything.
I don’t think it’s possible. There are loads of undiagnosed people with autistic traits. I’d hazard that most people have at least one, starting with RFK himself.
When I asked my family members if I’m on the spectrum, they all said yes without hesitation. I’m a successful, retired, government worker. I had never heard of autism until probably 2015 or so.
Every week that slippery slope is getting steeper and steeper
We’re barely 4 months in and we have: Ice Gestapos running amuck, South American death camps, deportation of citizens to said death camps…without due process now.
This week we’re doing special registries of ppl with disability.
At this rate where the fuck are gonna be as a nation by the end of the year?
We are one step away from sending people on the spectrum or people not maga to reeducation centers. Just waiting for the trains to arrive to take people to those camps. It’s scary
Very proud to be autistic and being able to use my super pattern recognition skills to see this coming years head to plant the seed years ago with my company to transfer me overseas. Moving this week to Europe
I’m sure the next step is going to be “rehabilitation camps”, and I’m terrified. I’m in Canada, but both of my sons are autistic and we have lots of friends in the states who are absolutely enraged, and terrified.
Happy I never got around to getting officially tested and I imagine others in my same boat feel the same.
Thought about it because I always wondered (but never really knew cuz the stigma) but never wanted to get officially tested in case of something like this.
I’ve been warning my undiagnosed friends to not get diagnosed for the past two years or so because I saw this coming. Autistic pattern recognition, innit.
They’ll ban gender-affirming care for us next. I predict an executive order about it coming out shortly after the junk science “cause of autism” and junk science “transgender regret” reports are released.
I was thinking about getting of going to get diagnosed for adult autism. This makes me scared to go get tested and find answers from an expert. I guess, I’ll stay wondering until this administration is through
Resist. Do Not Comply. It violates the Constitution in like five ways. These same shitheads were screaming about liberty over vaccination records/mandates not long ago.
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Eugenics was on my bingo card.
I wonder what a camp where they concentrate Autistic Americans would be like. Would it be better than the day to day world?
RFK probably gonna make us infertile somehow..but I’m divorced so I don’t care.
Im canadian but its fuckin weird esp with them not quality testing milk anymore, seems like they want to intentionally spread pathogens to get ppl on a list
I am okay with anonymized data if it is scrubbed in 90 days.
I am okay with a volunteer participation study
Any other method is not okay
I’m a grown-up, higher-functioning autistic adult, enough that some people might not even notice my autism. Yet, I’m terrified for my fellow people on the spectrum and/or those raising one, especially one who needs a lot of accommodations. I live in Washington, one of the most progressive blue states, which makes me more comforted. But I never thought that we would be rolling back decades of autism research because of propaganda. Regardless, I never have nor will I ever be ashamed of being a neurodivergent man. No matter what the government does, we aren’t going away, at least not easily.
My God, it sounds like the initial stages of something like Aktion T-4 which occured in Nazi Germany.
MAGA should be very concerned about this
I’m a day walker but still pretty freaked out about this.
I earned people about what was coming months ago, when “make America healthy again” was the bullshit du jour. It was ALWAYS going to be eugenics. It was always going to be “people like X are worthless individuals and should be eliminated to make America healthy again” and it wasn’t even fucking subtle.
Of course, I was accused of hysterics.
Omg, whatever happened to the ‘libertarianism’.
My ancestors have been “here” longer than the US has existed.
I’ve got an autistic child. Something like this would have me singing
O Canada, quickly.
I think it’d be a gross violation of civil rights and and a disturbing violation of the right to privacy.
Feeling like I wish I was rich enough to move my family somewhere else.
I am not autistic, but I have a problem with a government registry of persons with any medical diagnosis. Seems to me it could become an authoritarian tool to sort out fodder for the biomass plant. And I am not normally prone to conspiracy theories. Just sayin’.
Lucky that I was never diagnosed and livid that these children’s rights are being violated.
I’m high-functioning neurodivergent, but I’m not voluntarily getting on that registry because I don’t see what good it does me.
I’m also going to take this opportunity to reiterate that in this case, history is not rhyming, but repeating itself word for word.
It’s time to shut everything down. Things are not okay. Nobody is safe anymore. It’s the disabled people, it’s trans people, it’s immigrants. It’s all of us slaving day after day to capitalism while our taxes fund genocide in Gaza.
Something needs to change. And soon. And neurotypicals who claim to support us have a great opportunity here to Fucking show it
Fully support. I’ve caused a lot of damage to those around me. Something needs to be done to neutralize my influence and the influence of those around me.
I’m going to start a registry of brain worms.
Don’t worry… he’ll also provide you all with cute little armbands to wear…
NAZI !!!!!
Gross. Not even his crazy family wants him.
Happy my parents didn’t believe in sending their kids to the doctor so none of us have a record.
When this was first brought up, I decided to stop being civil in any manner with republicans. It ended a relationship with my old neighbor in a nasty way, but she supports Trump still, and thus endorses my nonexistence. So fuck her.
Bit concerning.
It’s in line with the other nazi things they are doing.
Why does there need to be a registry for autistic people?
Im a 30 something man in a stable job. I pay my taxes, I help my community, I generally try to be considerate and a good person.
A registry like this only serves to “other” a group of people. Its only reason to exist is to be ready to round these people up.
I abhor violence. If someone tries to collect myself or my wife to take to an ADHD camp, they’re getting 2nd Amendment-ed.
Well, they did this in Germany in the 1930s too.
I’m not autistic but have friends with autistic children. The fact that they’re even collecting smartwatch data is so beyond fucked I have no words. One friend has a severely autistic teen who is borderline violent, and she refuses to believe this will affect them in anyway but also said if they ‘wanted to take him away, that’s fine’.
Another friend has 2 autistic elementary age children and she’s terrified because she actually cares about her kids.
Im just hoping he doesn’t incidentally ingest some heroin and kick off that old habit of his.
It’s kinda giving Hans Asperger
autistic or just Asperger’s but too pc to say that now?
I will sue the fuck out of everyone i can.
Where’s the press release on that?
Or are you just fear mongering…
… Unless you’re actually into that as consensual adults…then carry on, wierdoes.
How would that happen?
HIPAA anyone…?
As an autistic American I am glad I am not living in the US currently.
As a low support needs autistic adult, it’s both scary and very sad to think of this rhetoric being pushed. Most autistic people live perfectly “normal” lives and those who can’t still have a place and value in the world. I feel like we were just reaching a point as a society where autism was becoming accepted (more or less.)On a morbid and half joking note, if the plan is to sterilize us- I’m not mad about free sterilization.
Why is this a priority? Is it to scramble up statistics on vaccines and autism so they can work up a study that presents correlation as causation so that it only convinces uneducated people?
Sounds exactly like the lists of “unwanted” people that the Nazis made in the 1930s.
Every day the Trump administration removes a little more reason not to liken them to the nazi party.
I am running out of the ability to say “At least they haven’t done X yet.”
Another waste of time and money. Instead of researching viruses, they took that money to make a registry of kids they refuse to teeat
Be careful if they start asking you to shower
Only children get autism so you won’t get many comments
I’m fucking terrified.
I’m not American, but holy shitting fuck that’s terrifying. That’s straight up Nazi shit.
I generally hope my fellow autistic folk in America will stay safe.
I’m just doing everything in my power not to fall into overwhelm and despair right now. I was diagnosed when I was 9, it’s on a lot of my medical records, there’s no escaping whatever they’re going to do with this information. Let it be known that they don’t make a registry like this with perfectly innocent intentions, and you’re a fool if you think they are.
None of my loved ones are diagnosed autistic, so. That’s the consolation I’m going to take right now.
Yo, you’re calling out to 98% of Redditors!
They’re going to try to genocide autistic people.
I’m scared. Now we don’t know what they intend to do with this registry but it’s definitely not hard to see what they can do with it, especially since this administration is so ok with Nazi ideology. We and the entire disability community need to be vigilant, this could get ugly.
Oh he can royally fuck off.
So what registry will RFKjr get logged into ?
The brain worms guy?
Welp, I won’t be pursuing that diagnosis anymore.
It’s mainly the exhaustion talking but I am so goddamn tired of sharing this country with these bigots.
Absolutely not.
HIPAA?
I’m literally terrified for my children. Both of my children are autistic. One of them needs more support and is on Medicaid, so I know his name is probably already in their database. Sure, they do their “research” and then what? Take our autistic friends and family members to “cure” them.
I know I might be overreacting, but if I’ve learned anything since January, it’s that they will do anything.
I don’t think it’s possible. There are loads of undiagnosed people with autistic traits. I’d hazard that most people have at least one, starting with RFK himself.
When I asked my family members if I’m on the spectrum, they all said yes without hesitation. I’m a successful, retired, government worker. I had never heard of autism until probably 2015 or so.
He is openly attempting to emulate Nazi Germany.
I am Canadian. But I am very nervously looking over the fence.
But really… When is a government list of a particular group ever been a good thing
not elon!
He can go fuhq himself.
I liked how one of the ‘problems’ he pointed out was that they ‘will never pay taxes’. Isn’t this the party for lowering taxes?
Just a quick history refresher everyone….
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4
Every week that slippery slope is getting steeper and steeper
We’re barely 4 months in and we have: Ice Gestapos running amuck, South American death camps, deportation of citizens to said death camps…without due process now.
This week we’re doing special registries of ppl with disability.
At this rate where the fuck are gonna be as a nation by the end of the year?
RFK can fuk himself.
We are one step away from sending people on the spectrum or people not maga to reeducation centers. Just waiting for the trains to arrive to take people to those camps. It’s scary
Very proud to be autistic and being able to use my super pattern recognition skills to see this coming years head to plant the seed years ago with my company to transfer me overseas. Moving this week to Europe
I think you should read primary reporting instead of sensationalist social media takes.
I normally enjoy organized lists, but not in this case.
I’m not on the spectrum but I have a lot of friends who are, they are frightened and trying to figure out if they should leave the country.
Rage. Time to take to the streets. Riot. No more hiding in fear.
This is why people should be armed.
Especially minorities and other groups that are, well, “othered” by these people.
Protect yourself and your family.
It seems kinda like how Hitler had groups of people he didn’t like organized with little patches and pins, weird.
Wouldn’t every American be on that list? Certainly every Reddit user.
He a F’in JO
Maybe we could get a registry of criminal cops before we turn to eugenics?
Guess I’ll avoid any kind of diagnosis then. May have been a mistake getting an ADHD diagnosis a few years ago.
I just got finished reading the Maus graphic novels, and uh yeah not feeling great
I’m sure the next step is going to be “rehabilitation camps”, and I’m terrified. I’m in Canada, but both of my sons are autistic and we have lots of friends in the states who are absolutely enraged, and terrified.
Hel trump🖕
Happy I never got around to getting officially tested and I imagine others in my same boat feel the same.
Thought about it because I always wondered (but never really knew cuz the stigma) but never wanted to get officially tested in case of something like this.
Guess yay me…
fuck that
This feels very, very sinister. P
I’ve been warning my undiagnosed friends to not get diagnosed for the past two years or so because I saw this coming. Autistic pattern recognition, innit.
They’ll ban gender-affirming care for us next. I predict an executive order about it coming out shortly after the junk science “cause of autism” and junk science “transgender regret” reports are released.
I was thinking about getting of going to get diagnosed for adult autism. This makes me scared to go get tested and find answers from an expert. I guess, I’ll stay wondering until this administration is through
I’m honestly terrified if we get put on a list..camps will be next..
Resist. Do Not Comply. It violates the Constitution in like five ways. These same shitheads were screaming about liberty over vaccination records/mandates not long ago.