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Monday, April 02, 2012

Today's Survey Question 4-2-12

Why is the autism rate rising?

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Because the definition of autism has been broadened to Autism Spectrum Disorder and conditons such as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome are being included as well as lot of other conditions which cause social interaction and communication problems. Alot of these conditions can be attributed to the child being "a product of their environment (dysfunctionally family.)

Anonymous said...

Awareness

Anonymous said...

Poisoness food chain and anti depressants

Anonymous said...

chemicals in food

Anonymous said...

1107am is right

its another ploy by the big drug companies to sell more stuff. some people just have stupid and/or shy kids. parents dont want to hear that. they want a reason, so the drug companies made one. really simple.

Anonymous said...

Follow the money. School based therapy programs and hard to prove diagnosis' equal money in the pockets of government schools, pharmaceuticals, and doctors.

Anonymous said...

cell phone a satelite signals

Anonymous said...

Mercury in vaccines.

Anonymous said...

Parents less and less willing to perform actual parenting instead of being able to blame it on something that now fits!

Anonymous said...

Because the govt is adding things to our water and plastics that the water go into...

Just ask china how they control population and why is it they are having more women than men when giving birth...

Just like in America now...

Anonymous said...

Autistic children are not stupid! Quite the contrary! Some in the medical profession believe certain immunizations may play a role. There must be some reason that the fed govt has a billion-dollar budget category for lawsuits involving immunizations.

Anonymous said...

12:03 wins the prize

Anonymous said...

It's not autism that's on the rise, but the diagnosis du jour-Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Those truly autistic are profoundly disabled.
The fact stands that this diagnosis has become a very high dollar business.
In this day and age of politically correctness you can't tell Baby Momma that the reason her offspring has behavioural problems, short attention span, non existance social and coordination skills is because while pregnant she sat around in a crack induced haze or an alcohol stupor.

Anonymous said...

2:41 hit it.

Anonymous said...

Also when a child is labeled as learning disabled they can modify test scores and reduce learning expectations in those students.
This of course makes the school look like it's putting out students who are more academically sound than they really are.

Anonymous said...

There is only one thing that everybody consumes, often. That is Water. Humans are destroying the land and the environment. And, the abuse is filtering into our water supply.