On Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr took to the stage of the Hubert Humphrey Building, which houses the Department of Health and Human Services, to talk about the Centers for Disease Control’s latest numbers on children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
I made sure to get there as early as I could. As an autistic person and journalist who wrote a whole book entitled We’re Not Broken, which sought to move discussion about autism beyond talking about vaccines and focusing on helping them live better lives, I wanted to be right in Kennedy’s sights.
