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They broadened the definition to include late talkers.
Too deep to dive into this pool tonight. Tomorrow is another day.
Teachers should not be diagnosing anything.
Autism and ADHD are ways to control kids that the teacher can diagnosis and get more money out of the system.
Both are serious or can be but have become catch all for laziness of authorities and drugging kids who are just active.
My vote is for more aggressive detection and categorization rather than a huge deterioration in the human condition.
I’ll check back on this thread after I get in a head-banging and rocking session.
The school systems get more money from the Feds for each kid they put in any form of special education program.
Then the kids lose due to the teachers telling them "That's good enough" instead of having them complete assignments & projects.
Didn’t they beat up Michael Savage for essentially saying the same thing?
We were told my grandson had autism. Turned out he had Lyme Disease. Two articles for your information.....
http://www.lymeinducedautism.com/lymeautismconnection.html
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/09/27/doctors-find-link-between-lyme-disease-autism/
Some children MUST be affected by their mothers running off to work shortly after birth. Science would never pursue researching the affects this has on babies and toddlers due to exposing the negative effects of mixing motherhood with their mandatory careers. Today’s lack of bonding between mother and child COULD be the trigger for autism. ‘Bonding’ is just as critical to formative years as food and sleep but it seems the emphasis today is on DAYCARE, food and sleep. I’d be curious to know what the prevalence of autism is in families with ‘stay at home’ moms, and especially in families with stay at home moms where the biological father is also present. Has anyone studied this or is this theory too ‘politically incorrect’?
Anyone have info on the prevalence for this in Europe?
If it’s lower in other cultures then it could be a difference in child-rearing.
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Funny, Amish has an autism rate of 1 per 15000. Somalian refugees settling in Michigan, never dealt with autism in their homeland villages, suddenly have autistic kids born in US. Processed foods? Childhood immunizations? Radio waves from all the electronics around? Who knows. I think the Amish provides some clues. Younger Amish couples are starting to immunize their kids after seeing how severe some child hood illnesses can be. Be interesting to track how they do and any rise in autism rate among these Amish kids.
There are truly autistic children, but not in the numbers that the current gurus claim. Like every other scam, it comes down to extravagant amounts of money for clients, researchers, teachers, parents, and anyone else who can grab part of the pot. If there is a real increase in real autism I would suspect something similar to what was discovered for the increase of asthma in children .... parents over dosing Tylenol.
Is there any chance that some of this can be linked to recreational drug use by the parents?
Now, having said this I have also seen some very involved and engaged parents who have children on the autism spectrum and do everything they can to help their child succeed.....these children can succeed in the proper learning environment along with a supportive and loving home environment......
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To every one here doing an armchair confirmation of the CDC BS explanation that it is simply better detection, try taking care of an autistic child for a day or a week. You will change your thinking in less than an hour. It is not bad parenting or difficult to control children. To suggest so shows stunning ignorance. Once you have spent any time with an autistic child you will understand that there is no way your explanation works. You also just might finally begin to get what an ever growing % of the population is dealing with.
I have two brothers both with autistic children (boys). Neither one is in public school. Neither one means more government money for anyone. Not to mention there are NO funds available for my family to “take advantage of the system.” They pay for outrageous medical and schooling costs all out of pocket. The idea that this is a scam is beyond insulting.
the libbies really want to find upper level autism such as Aspergers Syndrome, my son has it, I have it. usually these individuals are above average intelligence but with lacking of social skills, and are usually victimized by persons of authority.
But they also make excellent poster kids for funding, so the more they can corral the more funding they can get, and the more that can be converted.
I have no love for those that have an agenda to seek out those that are different, I have seen what has happened.
A family that has an autistic child should be very aware that if given the opportunity these child care expert agencies WILL take your child away, they will find any reason to ascertain you cannot take care of them, they did to my son.
If autism is, indeed, a “spectrum disorder,” then we can forget this “1 in 88” nonsense: every last human being EXCEPT the one, ultimate person of the most pristine normalcy will, by definition, fall somewhere down the spectrum towards autism.