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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      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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        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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          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’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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      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?

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        starting from his 20s, he was quite obsessed with dancing around carcasses and touching them, storing in his freezer and he would regurlarly consume said roadkills. also he would regurlarly use his falcon to hunt rats, and feed them to falcon. the most recent incident was only 10years ago, he found a baby bear carcass in newyork and drove it around and ditched in NYC central park, this set off alarm bells of the state, as they get suspicious if wild animal suddenly dies there.

        hes even nuttier around the whale carcass.

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        Yes, he’s had a documented pattern of risky behavior (eating roadkill, spreading bones around in the park, doing monumental amounts of heroin), and yes: he had a brain worm. But SOMEHOW those two dots don’t connect? It’s impossible to prove specifics, but according to his spokesperson:

        He had “traveled extensively in Africa, South America and Asia” as part of his work as an environmental advocate and said he contracted a parasite in one of those trips.’

        Then again we don’t know what he got up to while was traveling. Maybe he chowed down on a raw pig, despite all attempts to stop him?

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          You forgot the part where he bundled his whole family into a 4hr roadtrip to chainsaw the head off a dead beached whale. Then rode back with the whale head strapped to the roof with the windows down.

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            while the whale blood was gushing down on thier heads, and he made them wear bags on thier heads to avoid all the blood.