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  • The Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly

    04/20/2005 8:26:42 AM PDT · by agsloss · 456 replies · 6,421+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | April 18, 2005 | Dan Omstead
    Lancaster, PA, Apr. 18 (UPI) -- Part 1 of 2. Where are the autistic Amish? Here in Lancaster County, heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, there should be well over 100 with some form of the disorder. I have come here to find them, but so far my mission has failed, and the very few I have identified raise some very interesting questions about some widely held views on autism. The mainstream scientific consensus says autism is a complex genetic disorder, one that has been around for millennia at roughly the same prevalence. That prevalence is now considered to be 1...