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Posted on 02/08/2007 2:05:00 PM PST by bluebeak
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- About one in 150 American children has autism, an urgent public health concern, said U.S. health officials Thursday who reported on the largest study done so far on the troubling disorder. The new numbers, based on 2002 data from 14 states, are higher than previously reported. Advocates said the study provides a sad new understanding of how common autism is, and should fuel efforts to get the government to spend hundreds of millions of additional dollars for autism research and services.
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Improvements are usually not made at some fixed point, it's a process of evolution.
I love posts like yours. Why don't you try posting something substantive instead of using invective ?
If you diagnose people using the same skills you displayed in your post, then I pity your "clients".
there are children ... developing normal ... regress at around 2 years ... and even some that become undiagnosed (rare, but happens ... maybe some alternative therapies that have worked) ... and some of these turn out to be social butterflies ... not your asperger category.
Exactly. Thank you for disproving your own argument.
If improvements are made over time, not at one fixed point, we would not have seen such a dramatic spike at one fixed point in time, in the early 1990s. We would have seen a gradually increasing slope of diagnoses over the past 25 to 30 years.
Faulty diagnoses are certainly possible, there is no guarantee that a test is right 100% of the time. AIDS tests get it wrong 5% of the time, and that's something medical, so why shouldn't this be possible?
I don't see how that disproves my argument. I argued that there was no single year in which improvements are made, period, like you claimed. Also, there is no evidence that this is the only factor that was at work.
As for people who claim that this is caused by government shots, I would expect something more than just assertions, and I haven't seen anything but circumstantial evidence.
autism is a category ... i personally consider those asperger's as different from the majority of childhood autism.
Multi-causal/faceted, etc.
I think there has been a dramatic rise than can be written off as more being diagnosed than in previous decades. I don't think many people come in contact with many families who have kids diagnosed with autism ... so the extent is not realized by the general/"normal" population ...
many of these families are isolated because they can't go out and do all the normal stuff that most people do (or want to avoid incidents ... be stared at ... etc.)
oh well ... at least a few people are willing to discuss this issue ... although not as much as Anna Nicole Smith being found dead.!
Reread. I claimed no such thing. But if improvements in diagnoses were made over time, the incidence of autism would have also increased gradually over time. That did not happen.
This describes my 17 year old grandson but he was called autistic as a youngster. The change has been remarkable. I'm suspicious enough of vaccines to encourage my grandchildren who are childbearing age to think about this very carefully.
But then what's wrong with being Aspergers?
You can say this again. The last thing we need is to be throwing taxpayer money at this. There is absolutely NO motive from government researchers to ever find a cause, or cure, for anything. If they succeeded, they'd be out of business. They're always just a hair away from success and just a little bit more money and the problem will be solved.
Parents affected by this are motivated to find causes.
Not proven, but not disproven.
Anyway, to make a long story short, she's convinced the thimerisol - mercury - in the flu shot was the culprit.
I have a daughter with apraxia of speech. I'm in online groups with many parents of kids with autism.
I'm sure my daughter would have been classified as autistic because of her lack of speech.
However, she does have brain damage from an illness when she was 6 weeks old.
It's hard to have a special needs child, but they are also a blessing.
There aren't as many autistics in the Amish community. They don't know why yet.
Here are some interesting links:
http://www.nomercury.org/science/documents/Articles/UPI-The_Age_of_Autism-Amish_ways_6-6-05.pdf
http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/autism_none_for_unvaccinated_amish.htm
http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2005/04/autistic-amish-or-lack-there-of.html
Were those ingredients added recently? If not, then why is the autism rate climbing now? Instead of remaining steady throughout the use of those ingredients?
MTBE Use around the U.S.
IDEA law - more money to schools for disabled kids, including mental health diagnoses
The number of ADHD cases exploded at the same time as did the employment of school psychologists.
Follow the money...
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