A Dangerous Proposal, Cloaked in Authority
In a move as chilling as it is telling, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services, has proposed creating a national registry of autistic citizens. His stated intent is to investigate correlations between vaccination and autism—a claim long discredited by medical consensus but still weaponized by anti-science crusaders.
This isn’t public health policy. It’s bureaucratic profiling with a dangerous precedent.
Establishing a federal list of autistic Americans requires not only defining and diagnosing people at the national level but also tracking their neurological profiles—possibly without consent. It is a staggering overreach cloaked in pseudoscientific paternalism, and it fundamentally betrays the civil liberties this nation claims to uphold.
The Slippery Slope Is Already Here
Registries like this don’t stay static. They expand.
If the government can track autistic individuals, why not people with ADHD? Or those flagged by predictive AI mental health models? Why not gender-nonconforming youth? Or citizens with genetic markers for depression?
This isn’t far-fetched speculation. It’s historical precedent.
From Nazi-era registries to the U.S. eugenics movement’s sterilization campaigns, the impulse to categorize and control has always begun with lists — compiled under the pretense of public good. And once these systems exist, they rarely stay limited in scope or intent.
Surveillance Disguised as Support
Framing this as a form of help is a grotesque inversion. Autistic people do not need to be tracked — they need to be included and protected.
Already, autistic Americans face overwhelming barriers in employment, healthcare, and education. They are frequently subjected to institutional neglect or abuse. A government watchlist doesn’t fix that — it institutionalizes it.
RFK Jr. may believe he is acting on behalf of children. But policies like this do not protect children. They prime society for a future in which anyone deemed “different” becomes subject to monitoring, data mining, or even exclusion.
The Infrastructure of Eugenics Begins Here
Let us not pretend this is a benign suggestion. It is the digital groundwork of eugenics — masked as public policy.
When we begin to classify people by neurological profile and assign them risk status, we aren’t advancing medicine. We are reviving a century-old impulse to sanitize society of its complexity and difference.
History doesn’t start with sterilizations or camps. It starts with databases. With paperwork. With a checkbox.
Take Action Now — Before the List Exists
We must stop this proposal before it gains institutional traction. We must not allow this regime to normalize such dystopian ideas.
To help fight this, use our prewritten template to contact your elected officials and demand they speak out against this proposal:
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This Is Not Just About Autism
This is about all of us.
Because if the state can do this to one group — it can do it to many. Surveillance and categorization never end with their first victims.
It is our responsibility to stop the architecture of control before it is built. Before a list exists. Before history repeats — not in black and white photos, but in real-time, on our screens, in our laws.
And when that happens, it will be too late to say: we didn’t see it coming.
