Underestimated with Jenny McCarthy and JB Handley

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Robert Kennedy Jr

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Jenny McCarthy, discuss J.B. Handley's new book, "Underestimated: An Autism Miracle." “Underestimated: An Autism Miracle” tells the remarkable story of Jamison’s journey to find a means of communication that allowed him to show the world that he was a brilliant, wise, generous, and complex individual who had been misunderstood and underestimated by everyone in his life. Jamison’s emergence from his self-described “prison of silence” took place over a profoundly emotional and dramatic 12-month period that is retold from his father’s perspective. Once Jamison’s extraordinary story has been told, Jamison takes over the narrative to share the story from his perspective, allowing the world to hear from someone who many had dismissed and cast aside as incapable. Jamison’s remarkable transformation challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding autism, a disability impacting 1 in 36 Americans. Many scientists still consider non-speakers with autism — a full 40% of those on the autism spectrum — to be “mentally retarded.” Is it possible that the experts are wrong about several million people? Are all the non-speakers like Jamison?

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0:00.0	It's like we are live on Facebook.
0:28.8	Live all around. All right. Hi guys. Hi Jamie. I want the camera to see him
0:40.7	too so everyone can see. Can you? There he is. Hey Jamie. First of all,
0:46.5	congratulations on the success thus far out of the gate JB in this book
0:51.4	underestimated and autism miracle. Bobby, I'm so glad that you when you pop
0:57.2	on you said you just read it and we're blown away by it. Why don't we just
1:00.4	dive right into it with your thoughts, Bobby? I, you know, I, because
1:05.1	I know about it, because I talked to. And a JB, I don't know if what was
1:10.4	happening and was listening to this, you know, the tremendous excite.
1:14.1	And what really a couple of things really struck me about the book.
1:18.2	You know, JB, who has, I've been friends with for many years is a Portland
1:28.1	Oregon businessman, very successful on his son, Jamie, is a non-speaker
1:36.5	who's had autism from when he was very young. JB has also been one of the
1:42.2	people who kind of brought me into the into the movement for a safer
1:49.6	vaccines and for medical freedom. And he's been one of the really most
1:55.3	articulate, sensible, common sense voices on this issue for many, many
2:00.8	years. And I has mentored many people in the moment just through his own
2:06.0	conduct. And we're all, I've been actually to the victory school, which
2:12.2	is the school that JB created, or helped create organized the
2:17.7	creation. And I think probably found it a lot of himself, although I
2:21.4	don't exactly know what the detail is up in Portland. And that
2:26.6	Jamie has attended all his life. And it's a school that's designed for
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