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(News) Study Says 1 Out of Every 91 Kids Has Autism Spectrum Disorder

By Dr Gwenn

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it must be nice that if you have healthy children!!!

I really feel that people who do not have a child with autism or that do not have a child that is on the spectrum really has no place to make such a foolish comment. I love that you say some extra attention is all some of these children need... wow... I wish it was that simple. I invite all to really educate themselves and maybe pay for a book before making comments like this. STATS should SCARE parents!!! When are people going to wake up and see what is happening to our children!! I have a child with autism and let me tell you, if it were as easy as giving some extra attention to these children then nobody would mind getting the diagnoses. Do you have a clue what we as parents have to deal with when it comes to fighting for any help for our children? Do you think we are just so over diagnosing now that 15 years ago when it was 1 out of 10000 children that there is no way it has dramatically "really" gone up to 1 out of 91? Seriously??? We need to come together as a communtity and help our children. THIS IS REAL!!! It is bad enough parents have to figure out so much on their own when it comes to therapy, diets, SI and biomedical but, now we have to debate with the general public who are not going through what we are that it is real.... when you can walk one day in a parent's shoes that has a child with autism then and only then should you comment.

- jaxsonsmom October 6, 2009 2:15PM

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- laughable
  
  The CDC redefined autism years ago. The numbers for classical autism are the same as they were 15 years ago. You apparently don't understand the difference between classical autism and autism spectrum disorders.
  
  And what do you think the treatments are for the majority of the children in this number who are at the very borderline of the autism spectrum? Extra attention with development at schools and homes. Classical autism needs very intensive therapy, the borderline spectrum disorders which this study is talking about don't.
  
  It's not really a matter of opinion, NIH and CDC studies will support exactly what I'm saying. So if you are so concerned about autism, trying learning at least a sliver about it.
  
  - caelum October 6, 2009 2:50PM
  
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  - laughable!!
    
    Name a couple of those studies that you can get at your school at support your point of view!!
    
    - bobby October 7, 2009 2:44PM
    
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- Different diagnostic criteria
  
  Today the huge numbers of children that have some form of Autism were said to be hyperactive or different etc. That is why so many are diagnosed now. I have made a study of Aspergers Syndrome (one of the spectrum disorders) since my, to me, normal grandson was diagnosed with it. Guess what? I have it. The symptoms fit me to a tee but I was never diagnosed. There have been countless millions like me over the past years undiagnosed. In the past only the most severe forms were diagnosed. The rest were ignored.
  
  - tbcass October 7, 2009 11:33AM
  
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- Walk a mile in the childs shoes
  
  Parents who simply do not get Asperger, and then decide that they actually know how to deal with us, really annoy me. We aspies, regardless of age, will never fit your world and simply do not want to.
  
  If your child is Asperger, then he/she is smarter than you, and most likely smarter than the so called experts, you are inflicting on him/her.
  
  The reason so many parents of these gifted children have no idea what to do with them, is you want them to talk to you, be interested in what you see as interesting, play with other kids , in other words be everything they are not.
  
  As an Aspie, I still don't play well with others according to them, I still don't do talking if I am not interested in the topic, and I still hate it when you NT insist we look at you all the time, and I am 59.
  
  I have walked my whole life in the shoes of an undiagnosed Aspie, so I know what your child knows and feels, the hurt and anger at having to be what others want, to be involved in things that hold no interest for me, to have to communicate with kids and adults when they have nothing to say that could ever hold my attention.
  
  So while you are feeling sorry for yourself, being a parent of a highly intelligent child, who happens to have a personality that you don't understand, how about walking a mile in your child's shoes and see how you like what you are doing to him/her.
  
  The only cure required for Aspies is an NT vaccine, that way we will not have to play their silly games, to fit in.
  
  - littlbit October 7, 2009 4:53PM
  
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