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The Guardian - US
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Deborah Bloom

Why does RFK Jr want to put my family on an ‘autism registry’?

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‘No, autism did not ruin my family, as RFK Jr claims.’ Photograph: Annie Rice/AP

I always knew my parents operated on a different wavelength than most.

For one, they are both exceptionally smart. My mother is a former mathematician, who studied the various levels of infinity as part of her master’s thesis. My father is a computer programmer who, at 17 years old, was one of the youngest people to ever be able to communicate with ships in morse code. They met at a party for members of Mensa, a club for the highly intelligent.

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