YES, government schools, state entities, lawyers, and the entire Autism Cottage Industry are profiting. And some of that is DEAD wrong. There is very little to be done for high-functioning autism, and the best things that can be done, can be done for free (or the cost of a parent’s full time duty).
But autism is very real, and probably caused by more than only genetics. There is SOMETHING different in our nutrition, environment, vaccines, that is acting as a neurotoxin to our children. Autism is NOT the only epidemic hitting us. Many auto-immune chronic conditions are also more prevalent and deadly than before — asthma, just to name one.
Autistic kids might be the canaries in the coal mine for the health of our nervous systems (including our brains).
Autism is very serious and families dealing with it need empathy and moral support, not accusations of bad parenting.
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Excellent comments worth repeating.
As I posted earlier I am very disappointed with some of my fellow FReeper comments concerning morons, retards and spastics.
It would be nice if Autism was a disease that infected only Liberal radical Democrats but that just isn't so.
As Michael Whiner aka Savage is heaping crap on Conservatives once again some are posting a horrible defense of what he said.
I am the parent of an Autistic child and have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket trying to prove all the other professional diagnoses was wrong.
Truth is about the only cure I know of right know is prayer.
Thanks. As you might have guessed, I too have a child on the autism spectrum. I am the same mother for all my children, but the “great parenting” that these harsh Freepers would probably approve of works only on the non-autistic kids.
G-d bless you. Prayer helps, indeed, and so does relating to your child as your child and not a diagnosis. Which I am sure you do.