However, I can say that I see many more obese people than I have in the past.
I remember when the picture of a missing child on a milk carton was a novel event. Since that time amber alerts have become ubiquitous.
We have a ways to go before we make America healthy and great again. It starts with a recognition that we have a problem and that change is required, despite media messages that experts would tell us if there was a problem.
I remember reading once that your chances of having a child with autism increase with the parents age. Particularly the father.
No idea if the article was true, but it would make sense considering how many people wait to have children these days
I came across a post on Farcebook the other day. It was a pic of an older, retired gentleman who went out weekly with his wife to the local diner, where he sat and counted semis, pickups and motorcycles that went by as he and his wife ate breakfast.The comments were filled with "Autism didn't exist back in the day". Well, hate to say so, but it did. It just went undiagnosed in most folks, as they were extremely high functioning. The only time autism was diagnosed in the past, it was only in more severe cases.
I've heard more than one fellow programmer joke that we couldn't do our job well without being a little autistic. LOL
Is Autism eligible for government financial assistance ?
More self-diagnosis. More recognition of Aspergers.
Canada is working hard to euthanize autistics.
(May 3) A father battles Canada’s suicide machine His autistic daughter has been cleared for MAiD
Parental age and greater awareness is statistically accounted for in the analysis of autism rates; published reviews and met-reviews consistently report parental age + greater awareness accounts for about 20% (on the high end).
Severe autism, whether with mental retardation or not, is most assuredly increasing, and dramatically. This is worldwide, affecting industrialized countries more. South Korea and Japan are the hardest hit.
So I asked three AI programs (Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini) the same set of questions (the typical where, when, why and how type questions). They all came back with this:
Chemical pollutants, especially those that can cause germline mutations, were most common during the late 1960s to the early 1980s. South Korea and Japan were late to the game on cleaning up these pollutants; the United States started getting rid of them starting in the first Reagan administration.
So one generation after heavy pollution would be around 1995, which is when autism rates started to take off. Now that you two generations there are four people (grandparents) who can pass on mutations, so you’ve doubled your chances.
This is just AI’s opinion of the subject and shouldn’t be taken as gospel. Otherwise I would be going to Sweden to pick up my Nobel Prize.
But...we absolutely did not have so many autistic kids when I was growing up. You can’t miss the symptoms once you’ve worked with these kids (I have worked in my church’s special needs ministry). Nowadays autistic kids are everywhere and it looks nothing like intellectual delay due to Down’s Syndrome or perinatal asphyxia or the like. Doctors and psychologists in the past were not likely to all be making the same misdiagnosis.
Is the amount of autism increasing or are the number of diagnoses increasing? Are there more autistic people or are more autistic people being discovered? Has the definition or criteria changed for a diagnoses of autism? Is it easier to be diagnosed as autistic than it has been in the past?
incentives changed for a diagnoses of autism? Follow the money? How cruel.
The definition of autism has been greatly changed and expanded and there are now numerous incentives for an autism diagnoses so that schools, NGOs, health care providers, trial lawyers, and more can feed at the taxpayer trough.
It is a simple economic principle, which are not popular on FR but remain true nonetheless, if you subsidize something you will get more of it.
The fed is fueling the growth in autism diagnoses. It doubt the ratio of autistic to population is increasing.
Is it “autism” — or is it vaccine injury?
—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
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?.