Dear Autism Society of America, Is this Slightly More Autism?
I would like the muckety mucks at The Autism Society of America to listen to this blacked out video of one of my daughters - who is in her 20s - keening, weeping and lamenting because a Nick Jr program was left off the Pluto TV schedule for a day. The actual screaming and sadness went on for a full day. I'm her mother and I had a hard time managing the screaming and inconsolable emotion. Now, imagine I'm a barely trained group home worker making $16 an hour on the last hour of an eight hour shift. She would be in danger. Is this the slight increase kind of autism than ASA wants us to recognize?
Autism Speaks is running feel good donation ads on major media. They want your money and ask you to develop awareness and acceptance. The money rolls in, but neither awareness or acceptance does anything concrete for people with autism - whether severely affected or not. Last week, we wrote about The Autism Society of America having downplayed the 22% increase in autism as a "slight increase." Jump in Autism Prevalence A Mere Blip to Autism Society of America Is that common core math? I've yet to see any version of autism that is “easy”. This doesn't mean a person on the spectrum, or autist, if they prefer that term, can't have a rich, satisfying life. Of course they can. But I think we need to acknowledge the tough parts too. LOUD and clear.
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Posted by: Anita Donnelly | December 13, 2021 at 07:07 PM
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Posted by: Anita Donnelly | December 13, 2021 at 07:03 PM
Oh Kim that is heartbreaking.
When will it end? When will they learn? The cruelty of allowing this to continue, of running “charities” that exploit those who care about this but don’t help those suffering . . .
Posted by: Anita Donnelly | December 13, 2021 at 06:57 PM
What would cost Autism Society of America not a penny- is to start to call it for what it is, vaccine damage.
"If it looks like vaccine damage, swims like vaccine damage, and quacks and screams like vaccine damage , then it probably is vaccine damage"
Pharma For Prison
MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | December 13, 2021 at 03:13 PM
So, instead of approximately 74,074 individuals in the U.S. born in 2008(?) succumbing to autism, there were approximately 90,909 (assuming 4 million births) born in 2010? That slight increase means nearly 15,000 more U. S. children in 2010, probably something like 7500 more in 2009.
If this "slight increase" has continued every year since... (pick a mathmatical formula--we've had manipulated counts and undercounting every report IMO, broadly expanding wireless exposure in these years, so who knows) ... 7500 more each year (if growth is exponential this is maybe a significant undercount) would mean 165,000 children born in 2020 will succumb to autism.
I guess I'll assume approximately 160,000 U.S. infants born in 2019 are or soon will be dealing with "autism" (1 in 24 or 25).
After that year significant numbers of 5-G satellites, 5-G devices went online in the "smart" cities, a plandemic (that maybe protected some infants from some of their shots, but were they since recklessly "caught up?"), an mRNA modification and likely human tracking injection that sheds one or more components and rips up the vascular system and invokes new forms of autoimmunty... and who knows when this stuff turns off in anyone impacted ...who can guess what "the spectrum" will extend to or look like?
Already at this point the miscarriage rate and youth mortality is likely "slightly" epidemic and rising, too! Probably we won't even be able to pretend the increase in death in seniors is "slight." That's the new "normal" this apathy is now facilitating IMO.
Posted by: Jeannette Bishop | December 13, 2021 at 10:33 AM
i don't understand why these organizations aren't building housing and training future generations on how to handle autistic adults.
Posted by: Marie | December 13, 2021 at 09:55 AM
Kim-I have experienced the same thing happening with my adult son who also has autism. The screaming and head banging can be very hard to tolerate and it takes us a while to calm him down. Imagine if, as you say, they were in a group home with a tired staff person who would easily lose their patience and our children would be in grave danger of being abused. We are keeping him home with us for this safety concern for him and our need to protect him. We all are enduring the day to day struggles with the extreme hardships of autism. I pray to God we can survive it all.
Posted by: Gayle | December 13, 2021 at 09:06 AM
It has happened to many organizations .. they begin with a JUST CAUSE TO ORGANIZE … soon they begin to make enormous amounts of money because the JUST CAUSE deserves fumding .. soon careers are involved ..and finding the CURE for the JUST CAUSE is no longer the priority because if the CURE is indeed found .. the ORGANIZATION NO LONGER IS NEEDED.
In ASA … for too long .. their priority hasn't been finding a CURE or EXPLANATION for autism … their priority has become creating AWARENESS AND ACCEPTANCE … which allows ASA to continue paying salaries.
Posted by: Bob Moffit | December 13, 2021 at 08:40 AM