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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's sad that fully functioning adults would ever refer to themselves as "autistic".  The autism that I see rising is the 1 in 10,000 children that were unable to talk or function in the 1970s without full support in their lives. They flap and stim and perseverate on things. THIS is the autism that has skyrocketed.

I could care less how many cold fish, child-bearing, married, capable and working adults are living with social quirks....society doesn't have to pay to support them and they don't have to be monitored by their aging parents.  Seriously, that is not autism...it's not even close.

What I care about is figuring out how the hell we're going to deal with hundreds of thousands of severly autistic adults in the near future.  Apparently I'm going to have to find a way to live forever to care for my child, or leave a fortune and trust that someone will do right by him and take care of him in my absence.[/quote]

You are an idiot.

Children at that level of disability were diagnosed with infantile schizophrenia and retardation, prior to 1980.  They were institutionalized. They weren't in the community. Many of them died very young because institutional care was poor, and special needs kids are frequently more susceptible to contagious diseases and other health problems.

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