Kennedy claimed at one point: “Something happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.”
Guess what happened in 1994?
DSM IV came out.
Guess what it did?
Defined new categories for autism diagnosis including Asperger’s.
This shit makes me so mad; I could yell at a wall until it changes its mind or crumbles to dust.
(Kennedy, obvs. Not Liza, who is awesome and you should read her thread)
🗣AAAAAAAAAUGH!
❝ Kennedy claimed at one point: “Something happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.” ❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measles
i am one of those mothers who had her child have an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs in the 1990s and am here to tell you this fascist fuckwad should know it had nothing to do with the #vaccines and everything to do with the changes to FDA regulation that happened in 1994 during the Clinton administration
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