In an impassioned seven-minute Instagram video, the actress, whose 27-year-old son RJ has autism, said that RFK Jr.’s remarks “triggered me in ways I can’t even describe,” accusing the HHS Secretary of “peddling” “institutionalized hopelessness.”
After Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s contentious speech about autism, Holly Robinson Peete, an autism advocate and mother of an autistic kid, is speaking out. RFK Jr. mentioned a recent CDC study.
About the increase in autism diagnoses in the nation during a news conference on Wednesday, his first since taking over as Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.
He also made a few contentious, frequently untrue, statements regarding the disorder that were later criticized online. Autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD),
Is described by the National Institute of Mental Health as a “neurological and developmental disorder that affects how people interact with others, communicate, learn, and behave.”
