Autism is not a disease

Autism is not a disease

This month, President Donald Trump introduced his administration’s latest discovery: “the answer to autism.” After Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s months-long quest to eradicate autism spectrum disorder, he and his colleagues have apparently delivered on their promise to provide a so-called cure. This announcement is troubling considering that autism is not a disease. Isabelle Farnham Leucovorin, the drug Trump and his colleagues intend to use in autis…