Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan to create a "registry" of autistic people in the United States has already triggered an uproar from scared and suspicious parents worried about how this information will be used by the federal government,

The National Institute of Health is moving forward with a plan endorsed by RFK Jr. to create what critics are calling an "autism registry".

The health secretary called autism a “preventable disease” and claimed that people with the disorder will never go out on dates, pay taxes or write poems.