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Autism rates hit 'epidemic increase' in N.J.
NorthJersey.com ^ | 03.30.12 | Lindy Washburn

Posted on 11/26/2012 9:27:53 AM PST by Coleus

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New Jersey Takes The Lead In Confronting Autism
1 posted on 11/26/2012 9:28:03 AM PST by Coleus
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To: Coleus

If you give Social Security to a child for having autism, you will find a lot more of it!


2 posted on 11/26/2012 9:31:23 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: Coleus

“Yeah my kid acts weird. Is there some money in for me?”


3 posted on 11/26/2012 9:32:52 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Coleus

Funny how you never heard anything about autism until school districts and the social security admin stopped rubber stamping disability benefits for ADD and ADHD.


4 posted on 11/26/2012 9:37:07 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Coleus

I’m no expert.

If the actual cases of Autism are increasing at the rate statistics show (Vs. rate of diagnosis), I wonder if it is an evolutionary condition of our race. Technology and morality (lack there of) have driven social interaction, empathy and passion for selef righteousness down among the human race in general and in America for certain. I have wondered if there is a correlation.

I can’t say and have no proof there is any correlation. I don’t even know much about the scientific and medical details about the failings in the brain that cause the symptoms associated with Autism. But I know several families with kids of varying degrees of the disease. If there is a cause, it must be something universal and developmental beyond simple genetics.


5 posted on 11/26/2012 9:37:36 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (The Click-&-Paste Media exists & works in Utopia, riding unicorns & sniffing pixy dust.)
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Have they dug into the numbers to see where the new cases come from? Are more people suffering from autism at all levels of disability? Are they now including children who are a little "flighty" as autistic? Are doctors just fraudulently making the diagnosis like they did with ADHD to boost parents' and schools' government funding from disability payments?

If autism is really getting worse, then I would expect that more children would be just sitting there staring like the worst case of autism. On the other hand if they are playing with definitions or diagnoses, then you will have more kids diagnosed with autism but no more cases of kids completely detached from the world.

6 posted on 11/26/2012 9:37:52 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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To: AppyPappy
“Yeah my kid acts weird. Is there some money in for me?”

If I can coach my kid to act weird, is there some money in it for me?

7 posted on 11/26/2012 9:37:52 AM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: Coleus
Many years ago I believe it was Joe Piskopo who did a Saturday Night Live skit on brain damaged people in New Jersey, caused by pollution

New Jersey was not amused.

8 posted on 11/26/2012 9:40:30 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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To: Tenacious 1

Our food is killing us, and a lot of that is caused by changes due to government. It’s that simple.


9 posted on 11/26/2012 9:43:14 AM PST by MetaThought
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To: tired&retired

Down here it is called “Crazy checks”. Lots of people have their kids disrupt the school classes so they can claim more government money.


10 posted on 11/26/2012 9:43:41 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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To: Coleus

Looks like Michael Savage was right after all.


11 posted on 11/26/2012 9:44:38 AM PST by SpaceBar
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Yeah, the teachers at my youngest Son's school were thinking he may be autistic. Come to find out he was suffering from a case of “ants in the pants” like all little boys go through being pent up in a classroom, with young lady teachers who don't know how to handle energetic little boys. Fortunately, we parents were able to give these teachers a real crash course on how to handle little boys in class. It all went smoothly after that. Apparently they don't teach these things to aspiring young teachers anymore.
12 posted on 11/26/2012 9:45:44 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Incorrigible

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13 posted on 11/26/2012 9:46:31 AM PST by Coleus
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"Her greatest concern: “What happens....when they become adults? What will happen to my daughter....when that yellow school bus no longer stops at our house?”"

She seems to think that because her daughetr is in Gubmint schools, she is the gubmints problem - THAT's what is wrong here.

Our daughter is (relatively) high-functioning Autistic, and we home-school her because she is OUR responsibility, not the public schools.
Sure, our concern is: "Will she be self-supporting as an adult"?
We pray and work towards that, but if not - then she will live with us, like she does right now.

And for those not familiar, it's not just a matter of: "Acting wierd" - it goes much deeper than that.

14 posted on 11/26/2012 9:46:37 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: SpaceBar
Looks like Michael Savage was right after all.

What did he say was the cause?
15 posted on 11/26/2012 9:47:21 AM PST by ZX12R
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To: Coleus
Let me get this straight: up until recently, parents who had jobs and had a child with ADD or ADHD were able to collect DISABILITY benefits on behalf of their child?! About how much was the monthly payment?
16 posted on 11/26/2012 9:47:59 AM PST by utahagen
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To: Coleus

LOL!

= New Jersey has so expanded the definition of “autism”, that nearly every child is now inflicted.
= Give us tons of tax money.


17 posted on 11/26/2012 9:48:54 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: KarlInOhio

Autism is a spectrum disorder
If the studies say that 80% of the cases diagnosed are on the severe end of the spectrum, then you can be sure it is not just kids acting “flighty”

I suggest you volunteer some time at a group that works with autistic kids if you think kids are just too active undisciplined and misunderstood, or can be coached into fooling the doctors who diagnose them

I have to suspect an environmental factor is causing this, our body tissues are loaded with toxins from the environment and the products we consume or just use everyday
and a tiny effect on a fetus at a critical day of its development can be devastating

My son bears the facial features of a child whose birth mother consumed alcohol during a 3 day window of his fetal development when his facial features were being formed


18 posted on 11/26/2012 9:48:59 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: Coleus
I saw an interview a couple of years ago where a Dr was claiming that the increase in Autism was directly related to the DECREASE in mental retardation. He had a chart that showed the rise of Autism matched the decline of mental retardation, for what ever that his worth.

He gave 2 reasons: 1. Many of the older cases of Autism were diagnosed as MR and now we do a better job of identifying Autism.
2. There is social pressure to diagnose as Autism because with Autism there is hope that with treatment a fairly “normal” life can be lived but that is not true with MR and that parents would rather say their kid is Autistic than MR.
I would add that we have greatly expanded what is considered Autism to the point that any kid that is a little socially awkward could get the label.
I don't know if the DR was right or not but he seemed to make sense.

19 posted on 11/26/2012 9:51:10 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: tired&retired
If you give Social Security to a child for having autism, you will find a lot more of it!

If you have a child that has Autism, there aren't many that can fake it.. I am the co-Guardian of my grandson that is a low functioning Autistic child.. The pressure of the demands in raising the boy, eventually broke my daughters home and family apart.. However, I have no idea what NJ uses as Autistic Symptoms, and Tendencies, to have an opinions.. This horrible affliction is mindbogglingly, in it's affects on the children, and families.. I hope we can determine where it originates and can put an end to it's progression..

20 posted on 11/26/2012 9:51:59 AM PST by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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