{"id":139873,"date":"2025-04-24T03:44:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/love-on-the-spectrum-stars-slam-rfk-jr-s-ignorant-autism-comments\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T03:44:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:44:57","slug":"love-on-the-spectrum-stars-slam-rfk-jr-s-ignorant-autism-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/love-on-the-spectrum-stars-slam-rfk-jr-s-ignorant-autism-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Love on the Spectrum&#8217; Stars Slam RFK Jr.&#8217;s &#8220;Ignorant&#8221; Autism Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\/\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>\u2018s latest feedback on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/autism\/\" id=\"auto-tag_autism\" data-tag=\"autism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">autism<\/a>, the neurodivergent group is talking up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/love-on-the-spectrum\/\">Love on the Spectrum<\/a><\/em> stars Dani Bowman and James B. Jones have lately responded to the Secretary of Health\u2019s \u201cextremely ignorant\u201d and \u201cdownright offensive\u201d statements that folks with autism \u201cwill never pay taxes, they\u2019ll never hold a job, they\u2019ll never play baseball, they\u2019ll never write a poem, they\u2019ll never go on a date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBowman, an animator who has appeared on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\">Netflix<\/a> actuality sequence because it debuted in 2022, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rfk-jr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rfk-jr\" data-tag=\"rfk-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RFK Jr.<\/a>\u2018s feedback \u201ccompletely false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAutistic people have the same hopes, dreams and yes, the same awkward dating moments as anyone else,\u201d she informed <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/health\/love-on-the-spectrum-rfk-jr-autism-comments\/\">NewsNation<\/a>. \u201cTo generalize and say none of us can work, date or contribute to society, is completely false. I have a job. I do pay taxes. I\u2019ve dated. I have a master\u2019s degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBowman added, \u201cWanting to cure autism implies that our way of being is wrong and it isn\u2019t. We don\u2019t need to be fixed. We need to be supported. But the answer isn\u2019t erasing autism, it\u2019s building a more inclusive world for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJones, who works in IT and has additionally been on the relationship present because it premiered, stated in a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@jamesbjones.offical\/video\/7496003347225300246?refer=embed\">TikTook<\/a> that he discovered Kennedy\u2019s feedback to be \u201cextremely ignorant, and to be perfectly frank, downright offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI am old enough, I am of sufficient age that I can remember a time when society did not have a very thorough understanding of autism or similar forms of neurodiversity,\u201d stated Jones partially. \u201cSo, I am very displeased, very disheartened to hear someone make comments of that nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJones praised his particular training program as \u201cimmensely helpful\u201d when he was youthful in serving to individuals perceive him, including that it \u201chelped me to grow and develop into the person I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast Wednesday, Kennedy stated in a speech that autism is a \u201cpreventable disease\u201d that \u201cdestroys\u201d households, having since introduced plans for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/04\/23\/autism-registry-rfk-nih\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">nationwide autism registry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThese are kids who will never pay taxes, they\u2019ll never hold a job, they\u2019ll never play baseball, they\u2019ll never write a poem, they\u2019ll never go on a date,\u201d stated RFK Jr. final week. \u201cMany of them will never use a toilet unassisted. And we need to recognize that we are doing this to our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2018s latest feedback on autism, the neurodivergent group is talking up. Love on the Spectrum stars Dani Bowman and James B. Jones have lately responded to the Secretary of Health\u2019s \u201cextremely ignorant\u201d and \u201cdownright offensive\u201d statements that folks with autism \u201cwill never pay taxes, they\u2019ll never hold a job, they\u2019ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9587,1487,9586,1979,406,3123,3064,9585,2146],"class_list":{"0":"post-139873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-autism","9":"tag-comments","10":"tag-ignorant","11":"tag-jr-s","12":"tag-love","13":"tag-rfk","14":"tag-slam","15":"tag-spectrum","16":"tag-stars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}