[netmilsmom]

This would be wonderful, but one must look at the quote from the article

“Many also have above-average IQs and had been diagnosed with relatively mild cases of autism. At age 2, many were within the normal range for motor development, able to walk, climb and hold a pencil.”

Maybe they were misdiagnosed from the start.

[Feline_AIDS]

“Autism” covers a wiiiiiide range of issues, and really should be better defined, imo.

[JRochelle]

There was a study done by Cornell a few years ago which showed the increase in autism came with the increase in TV viewing by children.

When young kids’ brains are making connections, it doesn't help to be overstimulated. And boys especially.

While that study was the only one, the media didn't report it. What TV network wants televisions turned off?

[Lizavetta]

Autism is an industry now.

All those who profit from the existence of autism....

Therapists
Behaviorists
School psychologists, and
Special Ed lawyers

....will denounce anything that threatens to make autism a thing of the past.

[Larry381]

On a slightly different topic I remember having a long talk with my now deceased doctor who told me about a study he had read in the 80’s that seemed to suggest that many nonfunctional, vegetative state coma patients were clearly aware of there surroundings and their higher brain functions seemed to be intact. He called the study frightening if it was even half true.