Inspired by the Virginia thread's Rossco post, a thread to post all of the lousy autism stories that people find and respond to them en masse. First up,
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_...ws_3a_.htm an article that mentions epidemics, mercury, burdens on society and how we need caring for constantly.
I tried to respond to "Autism in the News: Virginia Tech" but when I attempted to register my browser crashed!
I cannot believe that anyone would be so ignorant as to think that we adults on the spectrum do not exist because we lack a formal diagnosis.
How could my father, for example, have been diagnosed in childhood when Autism was not even described until he was a teenager? Even my older children were too old for Asperger's Syndrome to have been applied in childhood, and it took until he was nearly 13 (sixteen months age) for my only diagnosed son to receive his dx, even though the Syndrome has been an available diagnosis since the early Nineties.
I suspect that, rather than the '1 in 150' often quoted, the true figure is closer to 1 in 50, throughout the whole range of ages, and we adults are simply geting on with our lives in exactly the way we always have, throughout history.
Because we have a developmental DELAY. We get there, eventually! We might need help, but we don't get it from social services. We get it from family, from books, from television, from internet forums and from our own hard work and observing what works through trial-and-error.
Posted on it. Excpect to be flamed, but if enough people do it it should get the point across to other people who may be reading.
Don't think we should draw the blame against abuse and bullying, as there's for sure alot of people who have been abused and not become serial killers, just as there's quite alot of people with autism who don't become serial killers.
Thanks Maisie! I have just added my rebuttal. Hope she likes it! LOL