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Melody Schreiber

‘It’s quite useless to us’: what autistic people actually want from the Trump administration

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Donald Trump speaks alongside Robert F Kennedy Jr at the White House on 22 September. Photograph: Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Trump administration is seeking to “make the proof” that acetaminophen (or paracetamol) leads to autism, Robert F Kennedy said earlier this month during a televised cabinet meeting.

But autistic researchers and advocates say they are significantly less interested in the “causes” of autism – which decades of research have shown to have a strong connection to genetics – than in support services and research on issues that would improve their quality of life.

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