Why am I NOT SURPRISED - after all it means MILLIONS of new ‘customers’ for the people too stupid to pass a math class in college.
65 percent of the increase? What is the percentage of increase though? Autism is shooting through the roof even if only 45% of the increase were counted.
As always...follow the money.
I’m dubious. The DSM-V criterion for an autism diagnosis (like the DSM-IV-R and DSM-IV criteria for Asperger syndrome and for autism, which have under the new classification been deemed to be the same disorder, differing only in intensity) specifically require that the social impairment be in excess of that expected on the basis of intellectual (dis)ability. Proper autism evaluations if there is any question about the subject’s intelligence require administration of an IQ test.
(I know these things because my wife is a licensed psychologist with a private practice specializing diagnostic evaluation of children and adolescents and gets most of her business from requests for autism evaluations.)
This can be filed under: Duh !
Well, duh!
Many people have observed the increasingly-broad definition of “autism” in recent years.
I predict that in less than one year gov’t background checks will deny firearms to anyone with autism.
Couple that with the phony bi-polar/bi-polar depression nonsense and... viola! A huge chunk of citizens who will never be able to protect themselves or their families.
So when the SHTF they’ll be SOL.
Well, duh.
Same con game as ADD (repackaged as ADHD)
I had a retired school teacher neighbor go postal on me yesterday. I mean I was stunned how she lit into me. Banged her fist on the table and got right in my face almost screaming at me. A 73 year old woman. Yikes.
All because, when the subject of another neighbor’s child being on Ritalin entered the conversation, I said the school system was essentially a drug pusher for putting 2% of the nation’s children on psychotropic drugs.
I have made it clear in the past that we home schooled because of our differences with the school system. She’s never been too keen on hearing that. Takes all of it quite personally. I kind of wonder if the fact that our daughter was highly successful (on scholarship) in college and has done well since also is seen as a criticism of public schools. Fine with me, because it is.
If we sent our autistic son to our local public school, they would get $22,500K/year to “educate” him. Our private Catholic school educates him, including therapies and accommodations, for a fraction of that. Follow the money!