A Bay Area man on the autism spectrum sits down with KTVU: On the Record to give his reaction to a recent claim by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that his department will find out “what has caused the autism epidemic” by September, implications that autism is a disease, why 80% of people on the spectrum can’t get hired.
Adam F. Sherman, the author of Living Beyond Normal: An Autistic Autobiography, has become a fervent advocate for the needs of those on the autism spectrum and is just as passionate about the need for society to adjust their thinking about the roughly 1% of the world’s population that’s got autism spectrum disorder.
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