And autism is very prevalent in our time, at least 1 in every 150 to 200 children, @ least that is what they say in the ads. This effects a large group of citizenry.
I belong to the organization that started that statistic. The growing incidence of Autism is indeed real and troubling, but at the rate of 1 in every 150, everyone with an Engineering degree would qualify. Hmmmmm.
There are certainly degrees of Autism and I have problems with people declaring their socially awkward but otherwise fully functional child "Autistic". My son is profoundly Autistic and it astounds me what people I meet think my son is capable of because of story they saw on the news.
So why the big scary statistics? Quite frankly, a lot of parents with Autistic kids were fed up with the amount of federal research dollars going to AIDS, a disease that can be prevented by changing behavior, compared to the amount of research directed to children who were aflicted with Autism through no fault of their own.
It's working but I hate that it's these type of tactics that have to make it happen.
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