May 9, 2008

David Kirby: US Medicine: 97% of All Autism Cases Went Undected - Until Now?

David Kirby explores the VERY Hidden Horde:

US Medicine: 97% of All Autism Cases Went Undected - Until Now?
May 9, 2008
Huffington Post

If autism has always been with us in the same high numbers that we see today -- as some scientists and academics contend -- then we should be able to identify the 1 in 150 adults currently living with autism in places like the US and UK...

But still, by any currently available measure, there appear to be many more people under the age of 18 with autism than there are adults with the disorder....

Investigators could only find, "a total of 645 adults diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders in Scotland,"...

...Is it possible that only one in every 110 adults with autism in Scotland is standing up and being counted?...


Read the whole thing.

1 comment:

michelle hays said...

thanks for all your posts. I find them extremely useful. Im glad youre making a stand. Is your son in therapy yet? I heard it can do wonders...