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Originally Posted by AGDee
A co-worker and I were discussing this yesterday and she said "Well they've got to find out why there are so many more kids with autism now than before!" I suggested that it's possible that more children are simply being diagnosed. There may be a lot of children with Asperger's whose parents/teachers/doctors aren't aware enough to recognize it. Perhaps, when we were kids, they were just the odd kids. There is more standardized testing now and we know more every day about these types of disorders. I agree that's it is probably the result of a the "perfect storm" of factors that prevents proper neurological development, particular in the way the brain handles and processes sensory stimuli.
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Absolutely. It's like people freaking out about how much more incest there is now than there used to be....there's not....it's just that people actually put a name on it and come out about it.
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