'Love on the Spectrum' stars respond to RFK Jr.'s 'ignorant' autism comments: 'We don't need to be fixed'
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent comments about people with autism continue to face backlash from members of the autistic community, including the stars of the hit Netflix reality series “Love on the Spectrum.”
In a TikTok video, James B. Jones, who has appeared on all three seasons of the show, called Kennedy’s remarks about those who have the neurodevelopmental disorder “extremely ignorant, and to be perfectly frank, downright offensive.”
What did Kennedy say?
During a press conference last week, Kennedy called autism a “preventable disease” and vowed to identify “environmental causes” responsible for the condition.
Kennedy’s comments were in response to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found about 3.2% of 8-year-olds had been diagnosed with autism as of 2022, up from 2.8% in 2020. Researchers attributed the increase, at least in part, to improvements in autism screening — an idea Kennedy rejected.
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