Summary

RFK Jr. is using private medical records to create a registry of people with autism in the United States.

The National Institutes of Health is helping to collect private medical records from government and commercial databases, including “prescription records from pharmacies, lab testing, and genomics records from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, private insurance claims, and data from smartwatches and fitness trackers.”

Kennedy, a longtime critic of vaccination, has made the study of autism one of HHS’s primary goals. He has called autism “preventable” and claimed “he can find a cure for the condition by September.”

    • @[email protected]
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      112 months ago

      It’ll be suddenly revealed it’s a general health tracking database, and you’ll be denied healthcare coverage if you’re “not doing your part”, will be used to monitor women’s menstrual cycle to figure out who’s having “illegal abortions”, you’ll be fired for not waking up at 4:30AM to stroke the ego of the CEO, etc., all thanks to Palantir…

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      12 months ago

      To me, this suggests that if you’re diagnosed with autism, they’ll scrutinize your lab, pharmacy & smart watch records.

    • deaf_fish
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      102 months ago

      The trick here is they don’t actually care if it’s autistics or not. They just want want to create another “other” for society to Target. So you’ll get them blasting this on news all over the United States of America " see this perfectly normal looking heartbeat, this is the autism heartbeat. We needed to put whoever this terrible person is in whatever terrible position we’re going to put them in".

      It’s just like sending people to El Salvador with mom tattoos. They don’t care if they’re in a gang or not.

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    112 months ago

    claimed “he can find a cure for the condition by September.”

    Is it camping? Oh boy do I hope it’s camping!

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    232 months ago

    Their database should track microplastics exposure, pfas exposure, lead exposure, and a whole bunch of other pollution exposure. Bet it won’t, because a correlation with those is not a desirable outcome.

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      Nope, microplastics made it onto the snowflake no-no naughty boo-boo list of words you can’t use in government documents anymore. Wish I was making this shit up.

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    Yeah that’s totally something we did Nazi coming.

    They going to start camps for “fixing” disabled people and those with autism or ADHD? Might as well throw trans and gay people under the banner “illness” right?

    These Nazis need to fuck right off!

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    This is just them preparing the launchpad for further mass surveillance programs. First, they’ll poke around with innocent sounding programs, testing the waters to see how much data they can sniff out of different private databases without anyone noticing. They’ll claim it’s for the good of autistic people. They’ll enact legislation to further cement their practices of data gathering. If their proof of concept turns out to be delivering results, they’ll keep going.

    Slowly they’ll keep tracking all kinds of people they deem as “ill”. They’ll start with vilified minorities that can’t fight back. Most likely trans people. Then the rest of the queer community. Of course, they’ll claim there’s no ill intent in gathering this data, after all, it’s not like they’re going to commit any vile acts.

    And slowly but surely, once the public debate around these minorities turns even more sour, you’ll have them enacting all kinds of laws, and these databases will prove to be quite handy tools in aiding their goals.

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    482 months ago

    Get ready my fellow autists, for you are the new jews, this time in magastan instead of Germany.

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    I bet at some point soon he’s gonna suggest the creation of camps for ADHD-havers to help them concentrate better. We can call them “concentration camps”.

    Wait… wait no no NO NO N-

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      So I guess it means now, that if you’re still undiagnosed in the US (and suspect to be autistic), better don’t let yourself diagnose… Sad times…

  • And just last week he spent time dehumanizing autistic people boldly saying that they’ll never have a good life and they’ll never pay taxes (let’s emphasize that part). They are a monolith of “useless eaters” regardless if they are “productive” members of society (have jobs) to shit stains like RFK Jr. Like others have stated this isn’t going to stop. Anyone who dares to reach out to therapists and take Rx meds to help them normalize brain chemistry is next (Wellness Farms!)

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    922 months ago

    Well that’s not great. This is the kind of shit why I haven’t wanted to get diagnosed. Granted I’m already in it deep for being trans and that resulting million mile paper trail…

    Behind the Bastards has a good couple episodes about what happens when people say they can cure autism (spoilers: many children die horribly)

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      Their RFK episodes are also highly relevant at the moment.

      (spoilers: even more dead children)

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        The RFK Jr episodes also led me to believe that RFK Jr is probably not as neurotypical as he probably wants to think.

        Which is not surprising considering the amount of hatred and seething rage that some unrecognized neurodivergent people (primarily low support needs) have for anyone exhibiting neurodivergent traits.

        After years of social rejection (especially by family) and being denied support, many neurodivergent people learn to mask their traits at all costs. So when they see others openly express their traits or receive accommodations, it can feel deeply triggering, even infuriating. This resentment often fuels a cycle of shame and suppression that repeats across generations in ND families

        Most of the late-diagnosed autistics/ADHDers in my circle have experienced abuse from undiagnosed autistic/ADHD parents. These parents, having been forced to mask their traits due to less obvious support needs, often harshly suppress the same traits in their children to avoid stigma.

        Some people who’ve struggled want to ease the path for others; others believe everyone should struggle as they did. The latter are the ones who go on to try to abuse their kids (and sometimes a whole country) out of being neurodivergent.