Posted on 05/05/2025 7:46:55 AM PDT by ChessExpert
A few decades ago, autism was rare, but then it rose meteorically. “Reported rates of autism in the United States increased from < 3 per 10,000 children in the 1970s to > 30 per 10,000 children in the 1990s, a 10-fold increase.
Since the 1990s, we have seen another tenfold increase. According to the Centers for Disease Control, autism affects an estimated 1 in 31 children and 1 in 45 adults in the United States today.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Interesting tidbit. I did not know that.
Thanks for the info. There is disagreement in the profession about what ‘it’ actually ‘is’ and a lot of freewheeling on the terminology on these quoted stats. dr. Allen Frances is one contrarian voice.
Oh one more thing - Thomas sowell wrote about this a few years back when the schools were trying to strong arm him into accepting an autism diagnosis for his kid. He called it the ‘blindness spectrum’, meaning if you don’t have 20/20 uncorrected vision then you ‘are on the blindness spectrum’ or ‘have blindness’.
—I’ve been wondering about this for years—never heard of autism as a kid—now it’s epidemic—
A few more crises to add to the list
TDS -– An Ignored Medical Crisis
Transgenderism -– An Ignored Medical Crisis
Your post is interesting. ADHD runs in my family, as well as obsessive compulsive behavior in several. A couple of people are obsessed with cleanliness, and a few are true hoarders. One of them in particular, you can even barely walk in the front door of his house. He has pathways of boxes of stuff that he has collected and just won’t let go of it. He’s also very awkward with people. I’m not sure if it’s Asperger’s, autism, or just something somewhere in between.
It’s become debilitating for him. Now, as a grown man, he’s living with his Mom again. He is old enough to be on his own, and did live on his own for a number of years, but when he’s by himself, he gets very depressed. His mom has remarried and it puts a terrible strain on the second marriage.
He has off and on sought help, but I don’t know if it’s just the wrong thing or what. It’s very hard to watch.
The short excerpt led to many excellent comments from Freepers. The link is worth the click, IMO. Anyway, here’s another excerpt that might wet your interest:
“According to Grok, a child born in the 1960s received 11 to 12 vaccine doses by age 6. Now, the number is significantly higher.
I asked Grok to analyze the current CDC childhood vaccine schedule, as their tables are confusing.
First 6 Months of Life: The CDC recommends 19 doses of vaccines, including HepB, RV, DTaP, Hib, PCV, IPV, Influenza, and COVID-19.
By Age 18: The CDC recommends 68 doses, including all standard vaccines (HepB, RV, DTaP, Hib, PCV, IPV, MMR, Varicella, HepA, Tdap, HPV, MenACWY, MenB), as well as annual influenza and COVID-19 vaccines for individuals from 6 months to 18 years.
Kennedy argues that the medical establishment’s dismissal of these concerns reflects a broader reluctance to confront powerful industries profiting from these environmental exposures.
In other words, the medical smart set doesn’t know what causes autism, but they are pretty certain about what does NOT cause it. We see such hubris in the myriad medical maladies, turbo cancers, and sudden deaths over the past few years, all of unknown cause, but definitely not COVID vaccine-related, they say.
Why isn’t the medical community more curious? What has happened to scientific inquiry?”
Since the 1990s, we have seen another tenfold increased.
Wonder if the dots connect to all the homeless and street hobos breeding?.
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