NIH Autism Database Sparks Concern of Privacy Violations, Discrimination

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is collecting Americans’ health data through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other means to create a nationwide ‘autism database’ to fuel studies ordered by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Here, ADDitude readers share their thoughts on how such a database could impact them and the broader autistic community.