An opinion piece expresses concern over the potential appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services due to his stance on vaccines.
Among President-elect Donald Trump ’s unconventional Cabinet choices, the potential appointment of one in particular worries me: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services.
With his inaccurate stance that vaccines should be avoided to prevent autism, Kennedy suggests that chancing severe childhood diseases would bethat stalled his cognitive development, and later with intellectual disability and autism, my son today is a smart, charming 25-year-old with a great sense of humor. He’s exploding with independence and has cultivated passions of his own: lawn mowing and country music, to start with. Years ago, when my son turned 8, his teacher told me there was an active Special Olympics program in our community. He loved basketball and I quickly signed him up. He made allies, including his taller, gray-haired 60-something teammate who would expertly pull down a rebound and hand him the ball to make his shot. By the end of the season the team had a couple of tournaments scheduled. The coach’s wife measured my son and presented him with a shiny purple uniform. But at the first tournament game, I learned that what to my family looked like a successful team could be distorted into a different message. We were losing badly; the other team handed the ball back to our 30-year-old point guard who shot, missed; the other team rebounded and handed it back again. This repeated until we scored. Then uncontrolled joy broke out, pumped fists raised heavenward, sweaty high fives swatted.There’s a lot to take in at an event like that — intellectual and developmental disability in all its expressions, amid the general chaos of amateur sports. There’s limping, shuffling, unruly hairstyles, broken teeth, body odor, poorly fitting glasses, uniforms slipping down or up untended
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. HEALTH SECRETARY VACCINES AUTISM DONALD TRUMP
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