Autism spectrum disorder is the new ADHD.
Actually, autism *is* medically related to ADHD/ADD, and I have ADD (not ADHD), so I have reason to be concerned.
(I am currently dealing with ADD without using prescription drugs, but I can certainly feel the effects of the drugs: my brain does what I tell it to do. What a lot of people don’t realize about ADD drugs is that they are the same drugs most people use to BECOME over-excited: amphetamines. The fact that there is an opposite reaction in ADD patients means that there is definitely something real there.)
Yup.
In some ways, this is like Global Warming -- what is the "correct" temperature of the Earth? I dunno, but the experts tell me that it is always too hot or too cold: it's unnatural, so there must be a problem.
Does your kid run around and talk to everyone? That's unnatural -- must be ADHD.
Does your kid sit silently and ignore others? That's unnatural -- must be Autism.
Whatever the case may be, clearly government intervention is called for.
“The new adhd “ This is right on the mark. Sight and say, whole language CREATED functional illiteracy .Recall that a much higher number of boys suffer and end up on drugs. Girls learn to read phonetically almost naturally, and escape the diagnosis and the resulting dumbing down.
Is this being done DELIBERATELY? YES!!! Hard to believe? YES!!
It’s all about upping the special ed funding. By today’s standards, my four year old is on the “spectrum.” And it’s changed nothing with how I deal with him or work with him. But if he were in school, they’d be thrilled to fill out all the paper work and demand more funding. Ten years working special ed, I know that this whole autism thing is just about the money.