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.
In my area on talk radio during the day there are public service ads about autism running CONSTANTLY, claiming that “one in 68 children” is born with autism.
One in sixty-eight!
Until a few years ago my sister was a public school teacher in a rural area for 20 years...classes averaging 20-25 kids...I asked her how many “autistic” students she had.
None, she said, as far as she knew. She had plenty who were squirmy or lazy or who just enjoyed causing a stir...but autism? Nosirreebob...
Math is the bane of my existence. I once took a test to see what I would be good at, what my strengths were. It gave me interesting results. I scored in the Superior range in language skills and business; I scored in the moron category in math and that test with different shapes.
So, there is no in between with me. I can do basic math stuff, adding, subtracting, multiplying, division. My downfall started with my first Algebra class. So, not stupid, just not very good with manipulating numbers.