Aug 22, 2019, CBC: Autism is overdiagnosed, suggests Canadian-led review https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/autism-is-overdiagnosed-suggests-canadian-led-review-1.5257144 DEBATE OVER AUTISM: The autism diagnosis has become so broad that it prevents a better understanding of how the autistic brain works, a Canadian researcher and psychiatrist says. Video: “We are now diagnosing and seeing people who identify as autistic who we may not have consider that way in the past, and their presentation may be a bit more mild. …” Dr. Danielle Martin: “This is what happens when you change the definition of a disorder. So we used to say there was autism and Aspergers and these different types of water tight compartments. And now there’s recognition that autism is a spectrum and we’ve enlarged that definition, so we’re necessarily now going to pick up more folks in that enlarged definition. I think we have to watch issues around social stigma and around overlabeling variants of new normal human behavior. People are different. …”
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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