I’m tired of being told my autistic child is a crisis. She is complex. Challenging. Beautiful. And worth every ounce of ...

Following the lobotomy, Rosemary was sent to live at a Catholic facility for the mentally disabled in Jefferson, Wisconsin Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over ...

If you are not one of the people who was deeply offended by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent statements about the deficiencies of people with autism, I will ...

In the trust, it was stated that the income would be given to their children if she remarried. Rosemary Kennedy experienced seizures and violent mood swings when she was a young adult. 1941, at the ...

It is particularly tragic given the Kennedy family history, and an attempt to “cure” his aunt Rosemary of her developmental disability with a lobotomy in 1941, two years before Kanner’s ...