Posted on 08/23/2013 4:37:36 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy
FRIDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDay News) -- The vast majority of youngsters with autism will grow up to be adults with autism.
An estimated one of every 88 children in the United States has an autism spectrum disorder, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means that 45,000 to 50,000 kids with autism turn 18 each year, says autism researcher Paul Shattuck, from Washington University in St. Louis.
"This is an impending health care or community care crisis," said Dr. Joseph Cubells, director of medical and adult services at the Emory Autism Center at Emory University in Atlanta. "The services that are available vary from state to state, but often the resources just aren't there."
Public schools are required to provide services to people with an autism spectrum disorder until they reach age 22, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. After that, the responsibility shifts to the person with autism and family members to find educational or employment opportunities and appropriate living arrangements.
But experts note that a shortage of necessary programs for adults with autism already exists and is likely to worsen as the increasing number of children who are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders grow into adults.
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It is.
They have expanded it from kids who rock back and fourth and scream if they are touched, to kids who have trouble reading non-verbal signals (we used to call these kids literal) to kids who are standoffish and uncommunicative or what used to be called shy.
It is sort of like calling everyone who's hair is not jet black "blond". You can raise the statistical number of blonds though the roof.
Ding, Ding, we have a winner. Austism was extremely rare until it was turned into a government-funded business.
It depends if Sebelius,HHS, IRS know you or your family has voted republican all your lives. I am not kidding. deathcare is exactly that.
“An estimated one of every 88 children in the United States has an autism spectrum disorder, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means that 45,000 to 50,000 kids with autism turn 18 each year, says autism researcher Paul Shattuck, from Washington University in St. Louis.”
Do you see what they did there? They went from citing the statistic on “autism spectrum disorders”, to extrapolating a number for “kids with autism”. It’s a bait and switch, since ASD includes a whole range of symptoms, including Aspergers, that are not what people normally consider disabling varieties of “autism”. So they are trying to get you to sympathize for more public spending with misleading statistics that include a lot of people who can take care of themselves perfectly well.
“Obamcare forces all US citizens to share in the expense of caring for autistics, Down’s Syndrome, severe handicapped, bipolar. They’re all “pre-existing conditions” so they’ll just take what it costs out of everyone’s paychecks, in the name of health insurance.”
How compassionate. You DO realize that Obamacare fully intends to euthanize these same groups ultimately.
Right?
Retarded has nothing to do with autism.
“And it’s not just ‘bad parenting’ or kids who need to be spanked.”
I think some cases are true autism but some are not and just kids who need to be spanked.
I’ve often wondered how they diagnose autism. I know here lately a test was made but in the past how was it done? I was out somewhere onetime when a mother, with a relative said doctors thought her baby daughter had autism. She told me the baby does not make eye contact and does not respond to people. I walk right over to the baby (about 1 1/2 or 2 years of age) and the child looked me right in the eyes and smiled. Not only that when I played with the child it interacted with me. That child had autism? Really? Kid seemed normal to me.
Most times the parents take care of them until they die. Who cares for them after that.
It is one of the greatest worries of a parent of an autistic child who will care for them after the parent dies.
Sometimes a sibling, sometimes a group home.
Alzheimer’s has been around for years, they just called it “hardening of the arteries” or “senile dementia.”
My grandmother had it, early onset in fact, she was completely bed bound and unable to recognize any of us when she was 63...that was in 1964.
My grandfather (opposite side of the family) also had it, but his was later onset.
Years later when they started talking about Alzheimer’s and the symptoms of Alzheimer’s did we realize that this was what had afflicted them.
Retarded is obviously an outmoded and politically incorrect term. But it wasn’t in 1955.
Exactamente.
Maybe its something in the environment or food or?
Back about 10 - 20 years ago I saw something that claimed that the area around “silicon valley” had above average autism rates. They chalked it up to the areas population who were very tech/analytically minded.
I worked with an officer whose son was profoundly autistic. He was very “quirky.” He was a great guy and a talented officer but lacked something in social skills. He seemed to realize it and worked around it.
you are probably correct about that, any economic activity group tends to pursue its self-interests... which would of course include survival for sure
I’m all for helping these unfortunate people if they need help. I am just wondering why there are so many of them nowadays.... and MAYBE there are some causes beyond the existence of generous welfare or assistance programs....
maybe there might be something in our food chain or larger environment nowadays.... that is increasing the caseloads of autism and alzheimers. Certainly there have been studies that have INDICATED such possibilities ... aluminum for Alzheimers for example... and some air pollutants or some vaccinations for Autism. I was just thinking that it would be worthwhile to have more research to pin down these questions, so that we could cut the high number of these cases down to size? It sure could save a lot of grief for a lot of families, plus it probably would wind up saving the taxpayers a ton of money. Just thinking...
It’s a pattern of behavior.
The boy I was discussing up thread will occasionally make eye contact.
If you’ve ever been around an autistic child for any length of time you wouldn’t think they were ‘normal’.
Keep an eye on this kid. And look up Regressive Autism. That strikes around the age of that kid. They get worse and worse and worse. If that child had in fact lost skills she’d learned previously and stopped making eye contact like she’d made before she would definitely qualify for a diagnosis.
And yes, I know there are lots of people who school their children in ‘acting crazy’ so they get a crazy check.
And for those who begrudge taking care of these kids I remind you you’re only a serious car crash away from being a burden yourself. Under obamacare both will be given the ‘Liverpool Care Pathway’. Or Schiavo’d.
It’s part of the reason for obamacare. The ability kill those unworthy of life gives some people almost erotic pleasure.
SillyCon Valley has “at least its share” of (largely new) industrial contaminants. Indeed, there is an entire district of Palo Alto that is known for its underground chemical cocktail of industrial waste (known in the trade as MES, short for Methyl Ethyl Sh*t .. since there are so many compounds included in the stuff that ...some of the best-known corporations...used to just toss out or allow to soak into the ground, etc.).
And there was a neighborhood of San Jose that had a similar leakage of cancer-causing chemicals from a big-name semiconductor manufacturer.
Nowadays, we understand that these companies are being far more careful, .. thankfully.
Look up epigenetics.
If there is an environmental reason and it were epigenetic it would affect the parents generation a little but the kids a lot more.
If it were strictly genetic, the risk factors wouldn’t be living within 500ft of a major highway or having been born prematurely.
I’m certainly no expert.
We grew up downwind of the Cleveland steel mills and Std Oil refinery and drinking water from the Cuyahoga River.
Swam in Lake Erie every summer.
I would have expected those conditions to foster far more “problems” in the 40s and 50s than today.
fifty years ago, the two thirds of autistic kids who were mentally retarded were put into institutions. We now have “deinstitutionalized” the long term facilities, and the parents now have to care for them at home, never mind their behavior.
The higher functioning kids in the past often ended up diagnosed with mental problems, and often ended up in psychiatric facilities.
The bad news is that when puberty hits, often the boys become aggressive, so aging parents may not be able to cope. There are “halfway houses” for them, however.
As for Alzheimer’s: That used to be called senility. In the “good old days” usually the oldest daughter sacrificed her life to care for her aging parents.
An no, these are not “new” diseases. Just given a fancy new name.
actually, back in the good old days, we had entire wards in the long term care institutions for the retarded full of such kids.
The gentle ones could be cared for at home.
I occasionally had to work with an individual with Aspergers syndrome. I could walk past him in the hallway and say hi and he was unable to acknowledge my greetings. Knock on his door or send him email to discuss work you would never know something was haywire..
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