Posted on 03/26/2016 9:47:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
During July 2008, nationally syndicated talk show host Michael Savage ignited a firestorm with his comments about autism, calling it "a fraud, a racket."
In follow-up statements, Savage explained his views as being "meant to boldly awaken parents and children to the medical community's attempt to label too many children or adults as 'autistic.'"
While Savage's language was blunt, his concerns over the gross over-diagnosis of autism are valid.
Of course, the U.K. banned Savage from entry, in no small part because of his controversial views on autism, proving -- yet again -- that British governments, both Labour and Conservative alike, are incapable of tolerating serious critical and controversial thoughts.
The autism lobby is very vocal, and their intimidation of politicians -- especially in the center of the political spectrum, which is always most susceptible by manipulation from pseudoscience -- has been intense. But when a lobby is so hysterical, that is reason to question its motives and validity.
In Canada, the province of Saskatchewan is having an election, and financial assistance for parents of autistic children has become one of the key policy platforms for the governing party that is seeking a renewed mandate:
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Dyslexia, anyone?
It’s easy, I suspect, for narrow self-interest to coax borderline cases into being worse than they really are for the sake of capitalizing on welfare programs. Doctors recognize a continuum here.
There is also a direct correlation between the decline of “retarded” designations and rise of autism.
While autism is defined as being mind-blind and unable to recognize and properly respond to the emotions of others, if your slow kid gets the autism diagnosis, they get more services and you get more money.
Dyslexics of the world, Untie!
“Savage’s language was blunt, his concerns over the gross over-diagnosis of autism are valid.’
Savage ping!
Get in line behind the ADD, ADHD, etc. insanity.
My wife started the program in her school district.
That being said, there are always vultures who exploit a legitimate need and make a lot of money.
I mean, have you ever researched what groups that are supposed to help veterans do with most of the money?
Not strong enough to keep Big Pharma from getting the courts to exonerate them for the root cause - vaccines.
It’s something akin to moral hazard.
I think it’s possible that I and my brother are “mild autism” situations. But it’s an ill wind that blows no good. Relating less to people can be the indirect cause of a soul to learn to relate more to God, and then to come roaring back, so to speak. Even though I am not all that empathetic, God is, and I gain a second spiritual and emotional wind which is better than the natural one I never had.
I have, and I’m attempting to coax my brother in that direction.
When I grew up I never heard of ADD, ADHD etc. Parents and teachers knew you could not expect a five year old to sit still for several hours
Everybody has a "syndrome" these days.
I recently went to have my annual physical. More like my once a decade physical. But my employer forced my hand as they were going to raise my health insurance deduction otherwise.
So doctor asks me about what medicines I've taken and what allergies I have and whatnot. I say none whatsoever. I'm in my 50s and have never had a prescription ever. I'm allergic to nothing. I never get sick, not even a cold. The doctor could not believe it. I think I might have been the first patient he ever saw that wasn't trying to get on some kind of prescription drug. He just shook his head, told me to lose a few pounds and see you next year. Well, maybe he'll see me next year. But I am taking the pounds off because I no longer eat bread, rice or pasta.
Modern institutional schooling probably has exacerbated what would have been borderline situations into problems.
The times you speak of are also where there were recesses and other non-curricular activities that actually meant something.
Nuns fixed ADD and ADHD with a ruler
Caused mostly by parents with no discipline
Wishing you well on your diet.
My diet is sadly too much a “seafood” diet. I see food, I eat it... but I’m one of the nicest fat guys you could ever meet...
Well, imposing unrealistic expectations and enforcing them by punishment DOES impose a repressed mindset.
That can open itself to other mischief later in life.
But they also knew that self-discipline and concentration are learned abilities, without which higher order learning is not possible.
In the 1990s, I knew several people who diagnosed as having Multiple Personality Disorder. I know they did not, if the ting even exists.
I’ve witnessed people who did, and suspected it of a relative who would be lucid in certain company but not in other company.
It is a coping mechanism that deals with extreme stress and duress. The pretense to be someone else (possibly inappropriate to one’s actual current standing in life) becomes so complete that any other concept is shut out of one’s mind while it is going on.
The other thing I have noticed, is when I was young, I wold see people with Down’s Syndrome on a regular basis. Couple times a month maybe? Now, I rarely do. They murder most of them in the womb.
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