10-yo with autism schools RFK Jr, scolds him for lying
- North Shore Democrats of Travis County
- May 6
- 3 min read
By Mike Killalea
An autistic fourth grader schooled the poster boy for nepotism who was unbelievably put in charge of America’s health programs. RFK Jr, recently claimed that people with autism “can’t work” or “have families.”
Kennedy also said “autism destroys families” and is an “individual tragedy as well.” In addition, according to Kennedy, who has zero medical training, said many autistic children were “fully functional” and “regressed … into autism when they were 2 years old.
Teddy, a 10-yo with autism, stood before the Princeton School Board and said:
"Recently, the U.S. secretary of health, RFK Jr, made false comments about autism like people with autism are broken, that autism is caused by vaccines, and that people with autism will never have jobs or families. But that's not true. I have autism and I’m not broken, and I hope that nobody in Princeton Public Schools believes RFK Jr's lies.”
Teddy’s remarks were published by Letters from God on Substack.
Ready for more lies? Said the roadkill aficionado: “And 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 unassisted.”
He also said, “Most cases now are severe. Twenty-five percent of the kids who are diagnosed with autism are nonverbal, non-toilet-trained, and have other stereotypical features.”
That’s baloney. Medical experts, along with people on the autism spectrum, told PolitiFact that Kennedy’s portrayal was skewed. A 2023 study written by CDC officials and university researchers found that one-quarter of people on the autism spectrum have severe limitations. But this is on the high end of studies, and many people in that one-quarter of the autism population do not have the limitations Kennedy mentioned.
Teddy continued, "Kids need to be taught more about the different kinds of autism, that autism is a natural variation in the genes that you are born with (NOT caused by vaccines), and about successful people with autism. The lessons should also be extended to other ‘disabilities’ like ADHD, cerebral palsy, blindness, deafness, dyslexia, apraxia, and more.
"I want everyone to know that people with autism and other disabilities are not tragedies, but just different, like all people. If everyone understood more about autistic people, and about people with other disabilities, they would know more about how to treat them, what their lives are like, and that they don’t need to be fixed or cured.
"This will help kids with disabilities have a better life. When people are aware of disabilities and are accepting them, they will have friends and less bullying. Also, the teachers might be more aware because they learned about the disabilities also.
"Kids and teachers should know more about disabilities so they do not believe RFK Jr. is right about autism, and they choose to treat them in a way that is good for the kid. By knowing more about it, kids and teachers will be nicer to kids with disabilities.
"This is important to me and PPS because I have a 'disability' and I noticed that disabilities are not being taught, only a few people mentioning autism. When teaching about culture, we teach many different cultures to accept them better. Because that's what disabilities are like, a culture, a culture of differences.
"PPS must add this to the curriculum of all grades and students, so we don’t have people like RFK Jr. in the future."
The Health and Human Services Department did not provide data on what share of people with autism diagnoses are unable to do the things Kennedy described.
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