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[โ€“] MattEagle@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if they have something big in the works for autistic people like they do for trans people

[โ€“] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5391310/kennedy-autism-registry-database-hhs-nih-medicare-medicaid

They want to "find the cause of autism" so they want to build a list of autistic people. Building lists of minorities or marginalized people is never a good sign when a government is powersliding into authoritarianism.