Eric Garcia

Yeah. You know, there was obviously the whole thing, which is that autism destroys families.

Saying that autism destroys children or destroys families is so corrosive and it goes into the larger stereotype that people with disabilities are a burden.

Saying that autism destroys children or destroys families is so corrosive and it goes into the larger stereotype that people with disabilities are a burden.

Saying that autism destroys children or destroys families is so corrosive and it goes into the larger stereotype that people with disabilities are a burden.

I hear him taking some of the most intimate and graphic details of autistic people's lives and using it as a pawn for spreading disinformation.

I hear him taking some of the most intimate and graphic details of autistic people's lives and using it as a pawn for spreading disinformation.

I hear him taking some of the most intimate and graphic details of autistic people's lives and using it as a pawn for spreading disinformation.

And I see him also taking the real challenges that high support needs people and making their lives seem like a tragedy. rather than lives that are whole and worthy on their own. This isn't to say that they don't face significant challenges. They absolutely do. But exploiting their experiences in such a public way in some ways almost bordered on pornography to me.

And I see him also taking the real challenges that high support needs people and making their lives seem like a tragedy. rather than lives that are whole and worthy on their own. This isn't to say that they don't face significant challenges. They absolutely do. But exploiting their experiences in such a public way in some ways almost bordered on pornography to me.

And I see him also taking the real challenges that high support needs people and making their lives seem like a tragedy. rather than lives that are whole and worthy on their own. This isn't to say that they don't face significant challenges. They absolutely do. But exploiting their experiences in such a public way in some ways almost bordered on pornography to me.

I want to get into RFK's actual ideas about autism. Sure. Let's start with the idea that there's an autism epidemic. This is something he's been saying for decades. It's a critical part of his argument. It's the assumption from which everything else flows. There is an epidemic, so we have to get to the root of it and do something about it.

I want to get into RFK's actual ideas about autism. Sure. Let's start with the idea that there's an autism epidemic. This is something he's been saying for decades. It's a critical part of his argument. It's the assumption from which everything else flows. There is an epidemic, so we have to get to the root of it and do something about it.

I want to get into RFK's actual ideas about autism. Sure. Let's start with the idea that there's an autism epidemic. This is something he's been saying for decades. It's a critical part of his argument. It's the assumption from which everything else flows. There is an epidemic, so we have to get to the root of it and do something about it.

So I'm going to do something that's not that podcast-friendly. Okay. Which is look at what anybody listening to this podcast could do, which is Google the term increase in autism diagnoses, increase in autism. And you'll see. Can you describe what you're looking at?

So I'm going to do something that's not that podcast-friendly. Okay. Which is look at what anybody listening to this podcast could do, which is Google the term increase in autism diagnoses, increase in autism. And you'll see. Can you describe what you're looking at?

So I'm going to do something that's not that podcast-friendly. Okay. Which is look at what anybody listening to this podcast could do, which is Google the term increase in autism diagnoses, increase in autism. And you'll see. Can you describe what you're looking at?

It's known kind of like as the hockey stick. What you see is you see that over time there was an increase in diagnoses. So it says that something like 1 in 10,000 kids in the past had an autism diagnosis. And then over time, that number just increases and increases and increases and increases.

It's known kind of like as the hockey stick. What you see is you see that over time there was an increase in diagnoses. So it says that something like 1 in 10,000 kids in the past had an autism diagnosis. And then over time, that number just increases and increases and increases and increases.

It's known kind of like as the hockey stick. What you see is you see that over time there was an increase in diagnoses. So it says that something like 1 in 10,000 kids in the past had an autism diagnosis. And then over time, that number just increases and increases and increases and increases.

And it makes it look like on a very surface level, with a very surface level understanding, that this is an epidemic. Right.