This WED.
Check your local organizations activities or google it for local info.
It might be too late for awareness...
we need some action in this country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/03/27/u-s-autism-rate-surges-cdc-reports/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/03/27/u-s-autism-rate-surges-cdc-reports/)
Quote from: ducpainter on March 30, 2014, 02:52:27 PM
It might be too late for awareness...
we need some action in this country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/03/27/u-s-autism-rate-surges-cdc-reports/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/03/27/u-s-autism-rate-surges-cdc-reports/)
I saw that study the other day. Really makes you wonder what is the culprit.
Quote from: ItsaDuc on March 30, 2014, 06:06:05 PM
I saw that study the other day. Really makes you wonder what is the culprit.
Keep in mind those numbers are already 4 years old.
Quote from: ducpainter on March 30, 2014, 06:09:27 PM
Keep in mind those numbers are already 4 years old.
I didnt realize those numbers were that old. Like I said, I just saw that the other day on the news. I understand the study takes time but crap!
While that article on the new trend isn't good news no matter how you look at it, some doctors were saying there may not be an actual increase happening (or at least not as large), just better diagnosis. It encompasses all Autism spectrum disorders, so all of the varying levels.
I personally think more adults have this then we realize, and were just never diagnosed. I can name around 5 people that I currenly work with (engineering field) that I bet would have been diagnosed when they wer children if the awareness would have been there. They're nice people, and very smart; however, they're definitely different though from a social perspective, and aren't always the easiest to deal with in a work environment. I'd guess some level of Asperger's. Many of the famous scientists of the past are strongly suspected of being Autistic.
Technically Asperger's doesn't exist anymore. They grouped it all up with autism. Previously they tracked it as "on the autism spectrum", but separate. I would go as far as stating that 1/3 of engineers and computer geeks are on the spectrum.
Quote from: Triple J on March 31, 2014, 08:36:09 AM
While that article on the new trend isn't good news no matter how you look at it, some doctors were saying there may not be an actual increase happening (or at least not as large), just better diagnosis. It encompasses all Autism spectrum disorders, so all of the varying levels.
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I'm gonna give that a wholehearted bullshit. While I agree that better diagnosis and the fact that they've lumped all of the 'spectrum' together will raise the numbers...
a 30% increase in a few years, and an 1130% increase since 1984? Keep in mind the doctors saying it's better diagnosis are the same ones that have watched it happen and done absolutely nothing. They keep saying it's genetic, and continue to fund research in that vein. They must have skipped the class in med school where they taught you can't have a genetic epidemic in a single generation.
At what point do we stop doing studies, that take 4 years to compile the results, and actually take some sort of action...1 in 50...1 in 25...1 in 10?
There's something very wrong with this picture.
Quote from: ducpainter on March 31, 2014, 04:27:53 PM
At what point do we stop doing studies, that take 4 years to compile the results, and actually take some sort of action...1 in 50...1 in 25...1 in 10?
There's something very wrong with this picture.
Exactly!
Quote from: ducpainter on March 31, 2014, 04:27:53 PM
At what point do we stop doing studies, that take 4 years to compile the results, and actually take some sort of action...1 in 50...1 in 25...1 in 10?
There's something very wrong with this picture.
So what do you propose? They're already trying to find the cause, while at the same time trying to educate doctors on what to look for to improve early detection so treatment can be started.
Quote from: Triple J on March 31, 2014, 06:32:13 PM
So what do you propose? They're already trying to find the cause, while at the same time trying to educate doctors on what to look for to improve early detection so treatment can be started.
The doctors have already been educated.
My proposal is very political.
Not here.
Treatment? I don't want to get too deep into it, but this is how the brain is wired, not the flu.
Quote from: duccarlos on April 01, 2014, 09:20:55 AM
Treatment? I don't want to get too deep into it, but this is how the brain is wired, not the flu.
There are quite a few treatments...maybe therapy is a better word I guess...that are helpful to people with Autism. From what I've read the difficult thing is figuring out what works for/interests each person. Some respond to music, other to horses and other animals, etc.
Therapy is definitely a better term. Communication is the biggest issue with autism. There's a lot of frustration that can cause the person to simply give up. It requires a lot of effort for everyone to express themselves in different ways.