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3 stories from Dr. Gary Kompothecras
Long before autism causation reached the White House, it was kept alive by private funders willing to be named. Gary Kompothecras is one of the most consequential of them, a father of children with autism who put his own money and access behind the research and films the establishment tried to bury.
The causation fight and the family-support fight are two halves of the same movement. Alex Kompothecras shows how the next generation is carrying both forward in Sarasota.
The 2025 federal autism actions did not appear from nowhere. Their political origin traces directly to a January 2017 meeting and the network of advocates, Kennedy, Wakefield, and Florida donor Gary Kompothecras, who pressed the case a decade ago.