“We Should Never Pull a Life-Saving Medication from a Child.”
The following is a personal essay that reflects the opinions and experiences of its author alone.Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., don’t understand ADHD or autism.President Trump has a history of using the r-word.
Health and Human Services Director RFK, Jr., has long maintained that vaccines cause autism, despite piles of evidence to the contrary; he’s even described autism by saying, “the brain is gone.” So it’s no shock that their new Make America Healthy Again Commission, established February 13, bristles with misunderstanding about both the rise in ADHD and autism diagnoses, and so-called “over-medication” of these and other conditions.We’ve heard it all before. “Autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 in 36 children in the United States — a staggering increase from rates… during the 1980s,” they say.
In the case of ADHD, “over 3.4 million children are now on medication for the disorder — up from 3.2 million children in 2019-2020 — and the number of children being diagnosed with the condition continues to rise.” It’s the kind of desperate handwringing we often hear from the fringes.
Seeing it in an executive order from the president’s desk is admittedly scary.The commission offers up all manner of scapegoats for this so-called rise in neurodivergence, or possibly false diagnoses.
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