In 2017, when a nurse came into the room and told my wife and I that our son Noah, who was 2 at the time, was autistic the words didn’t destroy us. What they did was wipe away the fog of uncertainty, and provide a game plan that would have him receiving all the support he needs.
Which is why, nearly eight years later, hearing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — now the secretary of Health and Human Services — stand at a podium and describe children like my son as part of an “autism epidemic,” allegedly caused by unnamed “environmental toxins,” feels like whiplash.
Kennedy stood before the
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