If HALF of the resources .. effort .. diligence .. BILLION DOLLAR finances awarded to COVID had been awarded your early warning of the UNFOLDING AUTISM PANDEMIC TWENTY YEARS AGO … thousands of children may have been saved.

My Balance Now:
Does the student bring those epi pens to the ones trained to use it, or does the school buy those things now?
How much are epi pens now?
I know a big ole fat Republican from the state of W Virginia had a daughter from his loines working for a drug company = head of it = charging all she could get.

Trump had those prices down for a while, by making the big pharma charge the American citizen the same as other countries.

Did they stay down? Do you know?

Sign up to speak and bring up the issue of school funding for ASD by reading them the title and the abstract from the paper. Tell them you will make copies available to every board member. Most of these meetings are video recorded so the message will get out to many more people. Make contact with the anti-mask, anti-Covid vaccine parents there. Personally show them the overlap of the study's hockey stick graph and a vaccine use timeline. https://mcdvoice.me/

Bill, I'm sorry to hear of your health issue and I wish you the best. I am also sorry to hear that you dispute the health crisis that is what children's health has become, and not just for this generation. You can argue figures but I can argue what I observe. I started teaching primary (elementary) school children forty years ago. When I began teaching (very early 1980s), the most serious (and only) ongoing health issue a child in my class might have had was asthma. I cannot remember ever having more than one child per year with asthma. This was the case for about eight years. I then stopped teaching to stay at home with my children when they were young. When I returned to teaching approximately seven years later, I began to see the start of a huge increase in health issues/learning problems, speech disorders, autism, sound sensitivities, allergies, and I began to see children with health issues that I had never even heard of before. I am not talking about a diagnosis that was on paper but that I didn't see in the child; I am talking about what I witnessed. Older teachers know this; the arguments from them are simply about what has caused it. Many don't even question the causes but I don't know any older teacher who denies that children's health is in crisis. Teachers simply feel powerless to do anything about it. Schools are struggling to afford specialised staff to work with these children and money that was once used to help with literacy or numeracy has been funnelled into helping children with more serious conditions
I left the district I once lived in about sixteen years ago. At the time, we had one child with anaphylaxis come in from interstate to our school of 670 children. A couple of the staff had to be trained in the use of EpiPens for this rare and strange (to us) condition. I recently returned to the same district. In a school of 750, there are 16 children with anaphylaxis. Of course, these days, every staff member is trained in the administration of Epipens. Yes, the numbers could be exaggerated. If overdiagnosis was the problem, we might possibly have seen a doubling of the numbers but we are talking about a sixteen fold increase. I'm afraid that what you think is happening is not the case. If you are interested, why don't you volunteer to work in classrooms around where you live. That way, you could see for yourself what is really going on. That way, you could see the difference between now and what it was like when you went to school. Please try various schools. There are differences in the number of children with serious conditions (epilepsy, diabetes, seizures, childhood cancers, learning needs) from one area to another but no area has the health of the children in the early 1980s. I am talking from the perspective of a primary school Classroom and Learning Support Teacher who has travelled quite a bit, worked in over 100 schools, worked in different cities, different states and more than one country.
Incidentally, I recently heard a woman who had worked as a school principal at a school where there had been a high number of unvaccinated children. She commented that not one of the children who needed to access specialised support was unvaccinated. I wish you were right but from my observations, you are not. The problems that children today present with were simply not around in my first eight years of teaching.

Right now local school board meeting attendance is HOT.

Huge numbers of parents are protesting to the school boards over masks, Covid jabs, and CRT. Use this to our advantage. Sign up to speak and bring up the issue of school funding for ASD by reading them the title and the abstract from the paper. Tell them you will make copies available to every board member. Most of these meetings are video recorded so the message will get out to many more people. Make contact with the anti-mask, anti-Covid vaccine parents there. Personally show them the overlap of the study's hockey stick graph and a vaccine use timeline. Help them make the connection with what they are already motivated to fight for.

"autism" and "intellectual disabilities" are over diagnosed. So are "mental illnesses" and "learning disabilities". As a person with a rare life threatening medical disorder named Neuro-fibromatosis I am sick of this triviality over over diagnosed conditions. Yes dozens environmental causes are contributing to a small increase in autism there is no denying that. I saw a cringe worthy Easters Seals commercial that said "We are the 20%" a term used to describe that organization acceptance of a very liberal definition of disability this organization used to be one that employed the moderate to severe disabled persons now a lot of service they offer are now for dubious "mental illness" and equaly dubious Veterans Administration related services.