Posted on 08/23/2013 4:37:36 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy
FRIDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDay News) -- The vast majority of youngsters with autism will grow up to be adults with autism.
An estimated one of every 88 children in the United States has an autism spectrum disorder, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means that 45,000 to 50,000 kids with autism turn 18 each year, says autism researcher Paul Shattuck, from Washington University in St. Louis.
"This is an impending health care or community care crisis," said Dr. Joseph Cubells, director of medical and adult services at the Emory Autism Center at Emory University in Atlanta. "The services that are available vary from state to state, but often the resources just aren't there."
Public schools are required to provide services to people with an autism spectrum disorder until they reach age 22, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. After that, the responsibility shifts to the person with autism and family members to find educational or employment opportunities and appropriate living arrangements.
But experts note that a shortage of necessary programs for adults with autism already exists and is likely to worsen as the increasing number of children who are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders grow into adults.
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Don’t they just transition to the democrat side of the Congress and Senate?
I had plenty of kids with “autism” in my school 50 yrs ago. They were termed retarded or crazy but they certainly were around.
Hell Some of my Teachers were retarded
Another factor to keep in mind is that 40 or 50 years ago, the entire earth was less populated. Today’s population is proportionally larger in almost every aspect and in every sub group, which no doubt includes formally diagnosed autistic people. Also, there is the internet, allowing knowledge to twitter across the globe 24/7. No more Pony Express needed.
Same people who take care of the democrats.
Mac daddies obamacare death panels will provide a final solution for them just like the germans did for the jewish people.
The school if I remember it's history right was founded first as a private school during the Polio Epidemic of the 1950's. The county because of the massive urgent need took over the school and it expanded to take in Deaf, Deaf mute, ADD/ADHD, Dyslexic, Legally Blind, Spinal Disorder, CP, MD, Multiple Personalities it was there. The later to come Forced Mainstreaming of kids with disabilities into schools is why many saw a sudden so called epidemic.
Personally in general I'm not for Mainstrtreaming. I think the gets would get maximum needed help in a Special Education School where they could recieve all levels of help. The help I got in just two years was enough that in 1976 I passed my Military entrance physical and again in 1984.
I attended it in 1970-71 for some Eye and muscle coordination issues which also made studying difficult. As an adult after doing research when it hit disability level I now know that I have had life long Sensory Processing Disorders that worsened over time. More than one likely several together. Look up Central Auditory Processing Disorders. I think that is often misdiagnosed as being ADD ADHD. The symptoms are close by treatment and triggering events vastly different. That was believed at the time to be ADD ADHD in my case but wasn't. I didn't need Ritalin I needed Valium or simluar.
The Polio epidemic began a slow change in how society saw persons with disabilities. Rather than the disabled being left at home with no help many were helped and many as well achieved significant levels of independence. Thankfully medical science is helping to cut down on such disorders as CP by taking doing C-Sections.
We have also seen a rise in children born with birth defects but I'd say again medical science advances has allowed for many children to survive that even a couple decades ago would not have made it to term.
Some mention Dementia. My sister is 5 years older than me and is almost 61. She was diagnosed with it over two years ago and has likely had it a couple years before that. The Strokes and Smokes took their toll. She's in a Memory Care Unit for her own safety. She can't walk off or hurt herself or others there.
I used to work in nursing homes about 20 years ago and we had patients in their early 50's with it. Truth is Alzheimer's/Dementia has always been there but folk just didn't usually live long enough for it to be seen as much as it is today.
LOL Man Oh Man look at my wording in my previous post. I can not correct my mistakes even when I find them LOL. Spell Check only does so much. LOL
The ones that can adapt and work, should work.
The ones that are unable to work cause they are like rainman, then I say strip the lazy abled bodied welfare leeches of the “bene’s” and give it to the disabled autistic folks.
It’s not that the label is fake, but grouping ASD with real autism causes many to see it as fake. I’ve seen real autism. The children today with ASD are able to function in regular society and give the whole issue a bad reputation. With all the symptoms that can be used to label a child with ASD, I think I qualify for ASD -— as do many other FREEPERS.
I am a mother of a 24 year old son that is autistic. Obamacare scares me. I think his life will not be treated as important as “normal” people. We still have decent insurance...for now. And whoever said its a “made-up” disease is very ignorant.
They’ve always been there but people kept them at home or they put them in special ed. I remember when I was around 18 and had never heard of Alzheimer’s, and I don’t even know if they were diagnosing it back then. On Christmas day a woman showed up at my brother’s house. It was obvious that she was confused and we couldn’t get any information out of her. We called the police and her family had already called them so they just came and picked her up and took her home.
Autism covers a broad spectrum of conditions ranging from quirkiness to severe dysfunction. I think much of what is now called autism used to be considered retardation.
Just recently they were connecting autism with induced labor.
Thanks.
yours:
The county because of the massive urgent need took over the school and it expanded to take in Deaf, Deaf mute, ADD/ADHD, Dyslexic, Legally Blind, Spinal Disorder, CP, MD, Multiple Personalities it was there.
if you add sociopaths and psychotics to your list, we’ll have a pretty accurate attendance list for the last management meeting I had to attend.
which is to say, a lot of people with various serious problems ARE out and “functioning” in our psychotic sociopathic culture today.
But then again, you are correct also in noting that the mainstreaming of everyone has caused them all to be much more visible. This indeed may explain the whole appearance of a large-scale increase in their numbers.
We also agree that “mainstreaming” is not a good approach, at least not for many of these conditions.
For some, probably yes.
But for many, it only hurts them all the more .. I think.
Another problem not mentioned is that the ‘mainstreaming” of so many people with problems....helps increase the number of “street people” in our large cities. A very unfortunate result from this “mainstreaming” Politically-Correctedness of a policy. Crummy for society...and even worse for these unfortunate people themselves.
Yes, these folks have always been with us.
It seems they are much more prevalent in recent years.
Another commentator here has pointed out that they’ve been ‘mainstreamed’ into society ... that is, shoved (or pushed, or let) out of care facilities.
SO, that may help explain why they seem all the more in evidence.
Fancy new names for conditions....
yes.
And this can lead, or help create, new governmental funding programs for those involved in dealing with such conditions.
Makes good sense
thanks
I am a mother of a 24 year old son that is autistic. Obamacare scares me. I think his life will not be treated as important as “normal” people. We still have decent insurance...for now. And whoever said its a “made-up” disease is very ignorant.
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Second that. I always cringe when I see threads on autism on FR, or anywhere else, for that matter. People are just ignorant, unless they’ve walked a mile in the shoes of a parent of a child with autism.
Our son just turned 12. Although his autism is considered “mild” I can assure you, our lives are anything but easy with him.
We have joys, we have sadness — sort of the same as with our two older typical children, it’s just more like parenting on steroids.
I also worry who will take care of him as he is our last and we are getting older. At this point, he can’t cope well enough or navigate the subtleties of a dynamic world to live independently. I’m think my son may marry a girl a lot like himself, but I doubt he could support a family.
It’s a tragedy what has happened to many of our young men due to autism. A lot of you here need to get your heads out of your butts and realize this HAS happened to MORE of our males than you would realize.
I have a GORGEOUS intelligent son — he is autistic, though — he can’t serve in the military, won’t be able to support a family — in short, he will always need help. At least that’s what our pediatrician told us when he was 4.
Believe me, he’s not just “quirky.” He has speech and cognitive deficits. He has EXTREME difficulty understanding social interactions. Yes, he can “function” but it’s not fun for him.
I don’t know what’s caused it ...but just hang out at any autism speaks convention or other event and watch ...I’m sorry, but we would have NOTICED these kids if they’d been around years ago.
I also do believe the evil banshees running Obamacare will CERTAINLY target our kids one day ...they’ll just be too much of a burden for them to EVER figure out any decent solutions ...hell, they want to abort EVERYONE who isn’t “perfect” in their eyes.
And I am working like a DOG in my own profession, my husband in his, and we are sacrificing and living modestly. Our goal is to leave him a home and as much money as we can muster. We are not planning on him receiving any government benefits ...I don’t want the “government” to even know he is alive.
a great website to learn about autism and the different way they see things is http://www.wrongplanet.net/
Then why was there a differential diagnosis even in the 1940’s and 50’s?
I have read articles that there is a connection between autism and gubmint required early childhood vaccinations. I have no idea if there is or not, but the people who study this do make compelling arguments.
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