[tommythev]

you said: I feel like all battles are lost if even here you have folks jumping on the trains to a medicated society. Anyway, perhaps Savage used a bit of hyperbole but he is right, the new boondoggle money maker is destroying the children by over diagnosing autism. Real suffering children are getting crowded out by hyperactive non-disciplined children - forever ruining them with medicated therapy rather than diet and discipline.

Autism cannot be treated with medication. It is a developmental disorder where one part of the brain grows more slowly than normal. In fact many autistic children, when misdiagnosed as ADD or ADHD and medicated with Ritalin, start having seizures. Ritalin tends to act as a stimulant with many autistic children and in other cases has no effect whatsoever. You are talking about ADD and ADHD which are NOT autism.

[commonguymd]

Bingo Einstein. It can’t be fixed by medication, but the symptoms via diagnosis can and they include a myriad things broken down into categories. Even a pediatrics online website can school you.

Are you that stupid to not understand the resurrection of flat lined selling drugs by way of same drugs re-introduced in an age lowering prescribe. Read dumbarse:

http://pediatrics.about.com/od/autism/a/05_autism_rx_4.htm

Report back and then read this:

http://www.autismvox.com/is-autism-diagnosis-trendy/

From an Autism website nonetheless.

Ask the CDC to answer the 10 fold increase in diagnosis this past few years. They can’t.