My child has ASD, will my next child have it too?

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Anonymous wrote:

XTroll wrote: Autism is an epidemic right now. I don't see how anyone can be blind to this.

I'm not blind. It's just not true. You have your facts wrong. Your anecdotal experience does not make it an epidemic.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201006/007-no-autism-epidemic-part-1

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201007/008-no-autism-epidemic-part-2

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201007/009-no-autism-epidemic-part-3

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201007/010-no-autism-epidemic-part-3-more-data

It's bullshit propaganda. And you fell for it.

[Anonymous]

XTroll wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

XTroll wrote: Autism is an epidemic right now. I don't see how anyone can be blind to this.

I'm not blind. It's just not true. You have your facts wrong. Your anecdotal experience does not make it an epidemic.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201006/007-no-autism-epidemic-part-1

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201007/008-no-autism-epidemic-part-2

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201007/009-no-autism-epidemic-part-3

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201007/010-no-autism-epidemic-part-3-more-data

It's bullshit propaganda. And you fell for it.

Wow, what a well-reasoned argument you have there.

Virtually all digging into the statistics shows a variation on this theme. For example, overall school special ed populations haven't skyrocketed...instead, children are labeled differently.