RFK Jr claims autistic children will never go on dates or pay taxes

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr says autistic people 'will never hold a job, go on dates'Source: Reuters

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00:00This is an individual tragedy as well.

00:03Autism destroys families.

00:06More importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which are children.

00:10These are children who should not be suffering like this.

00:15These are kids who, many of them, were fully functional

00:19and regressed because of some environmental exposure into autism

00:24when they're two years old.

00:26And these are kids who will never pay taxes.

00:32They'll never hold a job.

00:34They'll never play baseball.

00:37They'll never write a poem.

00:39They'll never go out on a date.

00:41Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.

00:45And we have to recognize we are doing this to our children.

00:50And we need to put an end to it.