People with autism say President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's insistence that vaccines or Tylenol cause autism despite contrary evidence further marginalizes them.

Why it matters: People with autism and their advocates told Axios that treating autism as a disease with a single cause that can be cured rather than a condition to be accommodated contributes to social stigma and undermines efforts to incorporate them into society. • "That's death by a million cuts on a daily basis from society, and then to have it come from our government with a sledgehammer is very disheartening," Russell Lehmann, an international disability rights advocate at UCLA who has autism, told Axios.

Driving the news: Trump and Kennedy on Monday insisted that acetaminophen use by pregnant women

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