She said that he would never be accepted into the mainstream at school, make friends, have a fulfilling job, drive, live alone, say “I love you,” or participate in team sports.
This woman, after all, listed a number of things that he would never do. I cannot even begin to explain how it triggered me when the Secretary of Health and Human Services just crossed off another never list.
“So when I hear someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. say, and describe our children as ‘family destroyers,’ I felt the weight of every parent who’s ever had to fight three times,
Fr times as hard just to prove their child’s worth,” the 21 Jump Street star said of her 27-year-old son, who has “actually checked off and shattered most of those nevers off of that list.”
Additionally, it reinforces all of the stigma and stereotypes that autistic people have had to battle throughout their lives.
“As an advocate, I’ve had to fight against it, as well, and [as] a mom, because what he’s peddling here, it’s not just ignorance,
