{"id":77618,"date":"2025-04-20T14:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T14:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/autism-advocate-on-what-rfk-jr-gets-wrong-about-autism\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T14:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T14:49:25","slug":"autism-advocate-on-what-rfk-jr-gets-wrong-about-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/autism-advocate-on-what-rfk-jr-gets-wrong-about-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism advocate on what RFK Jr. gets wrong about autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RFK Jr. says autism is a preventable epidemic. Critics call that framing harmful and wrong. Few have lived the consequences <!--more--> of that rhetoric like Russell Lehmann. Once a fifth-grade dropout, Lehmann was nonverbal and diagnosed with autism at age 12, and even institutionalized. Now, he is a guest lecturer at UCLA and a national disability advocate and autism influencer. His life challenges the idea that autism is something to be fixed or feared.<\/p>\n<p>#cnn #news #rfkjr #autism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RFK Jr. says autism is a preventable epidemic. Critics call that framing harmful and wrong. Few have lived the consequences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}