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(NewsNation) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s comments connected autism sufferers person caused vexation from immoderate who person the disorder, including "Love connected the Spectrum" prima Dani Bowman.
Bowman told NewsNation she was "disgusted" with the Department of Human Health Services Secretary's remark successful a property league Wednesday that "These are kids who volition ne'er wage taxes, they’ll ne'er clasp a job, they’ll ne'er play baseball, they’ll ne'er constitute a poem, they’ll ne'er spell connected a date,” helium said.
“Many of them volition ne'er usage a toilet unassisted. And we request to admit that we are doing this to our children.”
"Autistic radical person the aforesaid hopes, dreams and yes, the aforesaid awkward dating moments arsenic anyone else," Bowman told NewsNation.
"To generalize and accidental nary of america tin work, day oregon lend to society, is wholly false. I person a job. I bash wage taxes. I've dated I person a master's degree," she added.
Kennedy says helium was talking astir the 25% of Autistic radical who are nonverbal, radical similar Eric Nurminen, who besides has Down syndrome.
"Eric's concern is overmuch antithetic than 'Love connected the Spectrum,' erstwhile RFK is truly speaking astir radical similar my brother," Owen Nurminen said of his member successful an interrogation with NewsNation.
Tiffany Nurminen, the parent of Eric, spoke to a vastly antithetic world from Bowman's life.
"If you're a azygous genitor and you're struggling due to the fact that your kids benignant of bushed maine up each time and they're wearing diapers erstwhile they're 20, you benignant of tally retired of state implicit the years, and it gets tough," Tiffany told NewsNation.
RFK Jr. vows to analyse origin of autism
Kennedy is vowing to get to the bottommost of this, deploying 15 teams to find the imaginable exposures, including mold, nutrient additives, pesticides and vaccines.
He says that helium hopes to person immoderate answers for the crushed for this summation successful autism cases by September.
Bowman believes this is an inherently incorrect approach, however.
"Wanting to cure autism implies that our mode of being is incorrect and it isn't," she said. "We don't request to beryllium fixed. We request to beryllium supported. But the reply isn't erasing autism, it's gathering a much inclusive satellite for each of us."
The CDC released a report earlier this week demonstrating that autism cases person accrued successful the United States to 1 successful 31.
