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I don't wanna be beating a dead horse here, but... gah... read at your own risk.
I think this is a case of "let's pour all our cliches into one article instead of doing real work".
Teachers in the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado began to notice about six years ago that more children with autism were entering classes each year.
Old news. Real old. Not sure why people keep saying that, because it's been said already, but. Yeah. OLD news. SAY SOMETHING NEW, GODAMMIT!
Autism is often regarded as a personal tragedy - a rare and mysterious brain disorder that robs children of their ability to relate to other people and their environment, locking them in a world of their own.
Okay, I'm not even going to tackle this. Longtime friends should know my reaction to that, and yes, it involves bleeding profusely from the eyes.
I'm confused. How can autism be rare when I've seen numbers as low as 1/600? That's not common, sure, but it's hardly rare, given the population of the earth.
The U.S. Department of Education recorded a nationwide average increase of 544 percent in autistic students from 1992 to 2001.
So, right after they updated the DSM to include Asperger's, which is much more common than low functioning autism (I think...), they saw an increase in people diagnosed with an autistic disorder. I'm amazed!
Every parent of an autistic child has a story to tell, a moment that seems to crystallize the trials and heartache of living with autism.
Because, of course, they know better than anyone. They're not living with autism, they're living with an autistic child. Huge difference. And, while we're on the subject, I'm hardly rabid about it, but either say "has autism/child with autism" or "is autistic/autistic child". Don't switch useges, it looks sloppy.
The societal costs are staggering. The average child with autism will require $4 million in lifetime supervision and care.
Wow. And that's just the children! I wonder how much adults cost! Yes, that's a cliched response of my own, shut up.
The financial and emotional toll on families of autistic children is incalculable. Many parents devote their lives to caring for an autistic child.
Is it just me, or were they JUST SAYING "child with autism" in the last paragraph? STOP SWITCHING, DAMMIT!
I could go on, but... no. Rant over.
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I think this is a case of "let's pour all our cliches into one article instead of doing real work".
Teachers in the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado began to notice about six years ago that more children with autism were entering classes each year.
Old news. Real old. Not sure why people keep saying that, because it's been said already, but. Yeah. OLD news. SAY SOMETHING NEW, GODAMMIT!
Autism is often regarded as a personal tragedy - a rare and mysterious brain disorder that robs children of their ability to relate to other people and their environment, locking them in a world of their own.
Okay, I'm not even going to tackle this. Longtime friends should know my reaction to that, and yes, it involves bleeding profusely from the eyes.
I'm confused. How can autism be rare when I've seen numbers as low as 1/600? That's not common, sure, but it's hardly rare, given the population of the earth.
The U.S. Department of Education recorded a nationwide average increase of 544 percent in autistic students from 1992 to 2001.
So, right after they updated the DSM to include Asperger's, which is much more common than low functioning autism (I think...), they saw an increase in people diagnosed with an autistic disorder. I'm amazed!
Every parent of an autistic child has a story to tell, a moment that seems to crystallize the trials and heartache of living with autism.
Because, of course, they know better than anyone. They're not living with autism, they're living with an autistic child. Huge difference. And, while we're on the subject, I'm hardly rabid about it, but either say "has autism/child with autism" or "is autistic/autistic child". Don't switch useges, it looks sloppy.
The societal costs are staggering. The average child with autism will require $4 million in lifetime supervision and care.
Wow. And that's just the children! I wonder how much adults cost! Yes, that's a cliched response of my own, shut up.
The financial and emotional toll on families of autistic children is incalculable. Many parents devote their lives to caring for an autistic child.
Is it just me, or were they JUST SAYING "child with autism" in the last paragraph? STOP SWITCHING, DAMMIT!
I could go on, but... no. Rant over.
Oh look. I get to use my cool Xiggymade icon! Yay!
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Increase
Date: 2004-01-22 01:44 am (UTC)DSM-III rules "PD over PPD"
DSM-IV rules "PPD over PD"
So, I used to be Schizotypal, now I've got Asperger's.
Next edition, I'll have a more generic autism diagnosis.
The edition after that, I'll be an overglorified fishmonger, if I have anything to do with it.
What can I say? Fishmonger just sounds so much nicer then "autistic," and glorification is so much more sexy then functioning. I mean, anyone can just "function," but being an underglorified or overglorified fishmonger takes guts.
Fish-guts.
And we all know it's the mercury in the fish that's causing the increase in autism, right?
Re: Increase
Date: 2004-01-22 06:51 am (UTC)Seriously, as long as people keep chasing after mercury, they aren't actually curing anything, which keeps me a happy Connie. And if one person had their neurology changed via mercury, that needs to be dealt with, just for nonhypocrisy points.
Re: Increase
Date: 2004-01-22 10:10 pm (UTC)Personally? I just think I'm crazy, and I'm pretty darn fine that way.
Anyway... is it just me or was that article meant to make people pity poor families in which whatever member has autism? If it supplied some actual information... mebelieves it'd ACTUALLY be an article.
Re: Increase
Date: 2004-01-22 10:50 pm (UTC)And that was so a tearjerking pity article. It was annoying.
There wasn't any useful information in it. And i would have liked something useful. I would like to have a better understanding of what exactly falls under the label of autism and why and what the current theories are for why autism happens and whatnot. That would have made a good article.
Re: Increase
Date: 2004-01-23 06:27 am (UTC)Of course it was. Because, y'know, pity is just such fun!
Yeah, I'm in a bad mood. I'll hush now.