NFTU

Hello Senator Warren, I'm writing to you as someone in a position you claim to represent. I am profoundly deaf. I live with severe speech and language impairments. I am functionally nonverbal. I also have mild autism, precisely the kind of neurodivergence you and others are invoking to score points against RFK Jr. This Xeet is one of the most disingenuous and cynical things I've seen from you, particularly given your claims of being an advocate for the disability community. Living with a disability is not a metaphor. It is not a symbol. It is not something to be used selectively when politically convenient. Disability is real, physical, and often brutal. You're using people with mild autism to hold them up as a shield to attack RFK Jr., ignoring the obvious context of his remarks. You know full well he was referring to severe autism. The kind that robs people of speech and autonomy. He was not calling for the eradication of people like Elon Musk. He was talking about helping the children who scream through the night, who can't speak or hold a spoon, who wander into traffic because their sensory systems don't register danger. To collapse all of autism into one political narrative is not advocacy, it's a betrayal of those of us with disabilities. And it reveals that your commitment is not to us, but to score political points against the other side. If you genuinely cared about us, you would be making distinctions, loudly. Instead, you've flattened us for a talking point. You do not speak for me.