What if America’s autism epidemic wasn’t caused by environmental toxins like mold or artificial colorings in processed food? What if it was actually fake? What if the explosion in cases was actually caused by Somalis and other immigrants gaming the system to collect endless welfare cheques and live off the taxpayer dime for ever?
I’m being serious. These are questions I was asking myself early this morning, as I sipped on my second or third delicious sugary covfefe and began to shake off last night’s sleep. I’d just seen a Twitter post on a crazy scandal involving Somalis and autism clinics in their Midwestern home away from home—Minnesota, where as many as 100,000 of East Africa’s finest now live.
Well, half-serious. Of course America’s autism epidemic is real. One in 31 children really was diagnosed with autism in 2022, according to the CDC’s new statistics, up from a figure of 1 in 1000 in the 1990s, and this is almost certainly due, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed, to growing exposure to environmental toxins like mold and pesticides, as well as food additives, vaccines and maybe even prenatal ultrasound. Some of it is misdiagnosis, sure, and maybe a serving of “social contagion” like with transgenderism—kids aping their friends, and liberal parents seeking the approval of the Big Other—but autism is a real thing and it really is getting worse.
So it’s great that autism is finally being taken seriously by the people in charge of running America. The money cost of the condition is staggering on its own, projected to increase to $1 trillion by 2035, but the most painful cost is emotional and moral: it’s the lives and the potential this terrible condition destroys.
Since his announcement of the “most comprehensive” investigation into the causes of autism, RFK Jr. has caught plenty of flak for saying that autism “destroys families,” but he’s right. Most of the people attacking him loudly in the media and on Twitter—like terrifying den-mother Gwen Walz—are just looking for reasons to say something bad about him, as if they didn’t have enough already.
But the fraud is real too, and it’s big. Last year, The Minnesota Reformer reported on a huge ethnic scam involving Somalis and the state’s ever-growing number of autism centers.
Since 2018, autism centers—which are unlicensed in Minnesota—have expanded prodigiously. Centers in Minnesota increased 700% in the five years between 2018 and 2023—from 41 to 328 providers—with payments from the state ballooning by 3,000% over the same period. In 2018, Minnesota’s autism centers were paid $6 million dollars by the state, but in 2023, they received a whopping $192 million.
A few paragraphs back, I told you 1 in 31 children is now diagnosed with autism in the US. Well, among Somali children aged 3 to 4 in Minnesota, the prevalence of autism is 1 in 16. In 2009, a Minnesota Department of Health study found that the proportion of 3-to-4-year-old Somali children receiving autism services was seven times higher than the rate for non-Somali children. In the intervening 16 years, that gap has only grown.
Somalis set up their own clinics under the pretext of providing “culturally appropriate care” for themselves, but in truth, they’re just using the clinics to steal money from the taxpayer.
Two providers, Smart Therapy in Minneapolis and Star Autism in St Cloud, became the focus of an FBI investigation last year after former employees came forward with evidence of the scale of the fraud taking place. According to an FBI warrant, these clinics were run by “18- or 19-year-old relatives of the owners who had no formal education beyond high school or certification related to the treatment of autism.” Many of the children being “treated” by the clinics showed no signs of autism at all. One witness cited by the FBI said they believed parents were being paid to bring perfectly normal children to the fake clinics as part of the fraud scheme. They also billed the state even when “care providers” were out of the country, including in Somalia.
Both of these providers received millions of dollars a year from the government. During a three-year period, Smart Therapy billed Medicaid $850,000 for services for a single client, and received $438,000 in payment for those services.
But it doesn’t end there. Many of these autism centers are also tied up in another massive fraud scandal involving government assistance. Feeding Our Future is a program that’s supposed to provide food aid to children in poverty, but it’s alleged hundreds of millions of dollars—maybe as much as $250 million—were instead spent by fraudulent claimants on cars, property and jewellery. According to the FBI, “at least a dozen of the defendants charged for their role in the Feeding Our Future scheme owned, received money from, or were associated with autism clinics and other health care companies that received state funds for providing (autism) services.”
Smart Therapy, for example, claimed it served just under 200,000 meals and snacks in 2020 and 2021 as part of the Feeding Our Future program. I’d be surprised if it actually served 200 meals and snacks to hungry children. Or even 2.
This isn’t really about autism or meals for hungry children, nor is it just about Minnesota. This is about America and how the hard-working, honest American taxpayer has been turned into a paypig, a cashcow, call it what you will, to subsidise the Third World, abroad and at home, as million upon million of Latin Americans, Asians and Africans have flooded into the US in recent years. Billions of taxpayer dollars were sent abroad every year by USAID for absurd, farcical purposes—to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to use gender-neutral pronouns, to promote sex-change therapy in Guatemala and prevent the spread of “disinformation” in Kazakhstan—and billions of dollars have been squandered at home on equally lunatic schemes, like “culturally appropriate” autism care for Somali children who don’t even have autism.
The people responsible—America’s craven, traitorous elite—don’t think they’ve done anything wrong. Of course they don’t. Minnesota governor Tim Walz, in his six years as governor, has done his very best to make his state an outpost of some far-flung, sandy little shithole country, a place where the mores are anything but compatible with basic American values—which he hates. When questioned about the autism-center scandal, Walz initially feigned ignorance, according to The Minnesota Reformer. He asked for “clarification” before he could give an answer. Only later, when the scandal couldn’t be avoided, did he don his outrage hat and say some very stern things about sending the perpetrators to jail, because “these are crimes against children” and “this pisses me off unlike anything else.”
Give me a break. What really pisses Tim off unlike anything else is the thought the America-last gravy train might finally be running out of track. That’s the possibility President Trump has made real, and Tim Walz and every other traitor sellout wants to avoid at all cost.