Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clarified remarks he made about autistic people, saying he knows that some of them have fulfilling lives.
“There are many kids with autism who are doing well. They’re holding down jobs, they’re getting paychecks, they’re living independently,” Kennedy said on Fox News on April 17.
During a press conference on autism the day prior, Kennedy had said that autism “destroys families” and “our children.”
“These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet on an assistant,” Kennedy said during the briefing….