You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage.

I’d like to introduce you to my daughter.

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    Daily reminder that the fact RFK has a platform for the health policy of the US and not a grave after having his brain literally eaten by worms entirely due to his own risky behaviour, is fucking comically absurd

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          I’ll tell you something about heroin for me. I did very very poorly in school, until I started doing narcotics. Then I went to the top of my class because my mind was so restless and turbulent and I could not sit still. […] I’d probably today be diagnosed as ADHD, I was bouncing off the walls. I couldn’t sit still, I just wanted to get in the woods. […] I started doing heroin, I went to the top of my class. Suddenly I could sit still, I could read, and I could concentrate, I could listen to what people were saying, things made sense to me. […] It worked for me. And if it still worked, I’d still be doing it. […] It killed my brother, and it destroys your relationships. It hollows out your whole life. You have a one-dimensional life. I was a bundle of appetites and it was a full time job to feed them, with drugs and sex and alcohol and extreme behavior.

          Is he implying that an ADHD diagnosis would have been frivolous for him because…he self-medicated with heroin and it worked out dandy?? Hasn’t he publicly criticized the rate of ADHD diagnoses and related medications?

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      Reality has really gone beyond parody. We use the term “brain worms” to describe willfully ignorant people, and along comes this guy who actually does have brain worms. Lmao

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          he may sitll have one, being exposed to that man carcasses without proper sanitation, is asking for a parasite. he also abused heroin heavily too. i think he got his brother/cousin addicted to heroin and he ODed off it, and he drove his ex-wife to suicide too.

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        I know, right? Not only is it absolutely horrifying, but it’s also completely breaking my immersion! A little on the nose, eh, devs?

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      I know about the brain worm thing, but not it being attributed to his risky behavior. What was the behavior that the worms are attributed to?