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

(Ireland) Lucan (Dublin): Autism classes delayed; "great need for such classes"

The end of childhood
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Jan 26, 2026, Irish Examiner: Several autism classes waiting for dedicated buildings

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41781923.html

At least two primary schools approved to set up autism classes last September, in areas where there is a great need for such classes, have yet to open buildings for their students.

Works to open four new classes, with places for 24 students, at St Mary’s Boys National School in Lucan and at Finglas Parochial National School have yet to commence.