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SanAndreasX said:


RFK lamented that autistic people will never pay taxes.

The ironic thing about this comment of his is that I am autistic. When I was diagnosed I was a point away from being diagnosed with what was called "Classical Autism" at the time. Ended up being diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) because my scores were mostly too high for "Asperger's Syndrome" but that one score being a point too low for "Classical Autism" prevented that diagnosis. 

This was a year or two before the DSM V collapsed it into Autism Spectrum Disorder (which made sense in my opinion.) 

Anyway, I paid $45,000 in local, state, federal, FICA taxes for last year. That is more than the median individual income in the U.S. Add on another $6,000 or so in sales tax and the high payroll taxes my employer pays too. 

RFK Jr. is an idiot drug addict. 

Edit:

Misremembered, the categories were "Autism Spectrum" and "Autism" and I was diagnosed according to the DSM V. Although this was a second diagnosis a few years after my first.

Last edited by sc94597 - on 18 April 2025