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re: How many autistic kids did you know when you were young?
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:32 pm to L5ut1g3r
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:32 pm to L5ut1g3r
Born in 69. HS grad in 87. There were a few in a class of over 400. One died in 6th grade. Incredibly smart but the most unhappy person I have ever met. We found notes that he knew when he would die. He was within a week of his guess. Kinda freaked me out a little bit. He was infatuated with the girl I was “going with”. There were a couple others that were strange and really smart. Both committed suicide. My parents never let us take pain medicine unless it was catastrophic injury. All three that I am talking about all were military children and were taking prescribed medicine that I had not heard of at the time. Kinda crazy.
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Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:35 pm to lsupride87
When I was growing up I did not know a single kid with this. Now they are everywhere
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:36 pm to FLTech
quote:You didn’t know a single kid that was diagnosed with autism.
When I was growing up I did not know a single kid with this. Now they are everywhere
But, You knew multiple kids just like the video I posted. And that is someone diagnosed with autism today
This post was edited on 9/22/25 at 8:38 pm
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:37 pm to L5ut1g3r
Friend of mine has one that's in the Honors Program at La Tech.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:38 pm to lsupride87
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Wasn’t a Rummel joke But I see how it comes off now
Didn't know any at Rummel when I was there, but I see there's quite a few here. Most I've ever experienced.
However, there was this one nerdy, shy kid that did graduate from MIT. So you may be on to something.
This post was edited on 9/22/25 at 8:40 pm
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:38 pm to lsupride87
I didn’t watch your video so I do not know.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:38 pm to L5ut1g3r
Zero.
Watched the tennis video. I see zilch wrong with the guy. He started speaking later most others and now has the ability to focus on certain things? Welcome to Earth?
I would argue that MOST of us can focus on SOMETHING that interests us. That's human nature.
Not saying autism doesn't exist, but it really appears that they've extended the spectrum as far as needed to suit an agenda.
Watched the tennis video. I see zilch wrong with the guy. He started speaking later most others and now has the ability to focus on certain things? Welcome to Earth?
I would argue that MOST of us can focus on SOMETHING that interests us. That's human nature.
Not saying autism doesn't exist, but it really appears that they've extended the spectrum as far as needed to suit an agenda.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:38 pm to Hangover Haven
quote:didn’t know any people diagnosed.
Didn't know any at Rummel when I was there,
What I am saying is there was people that would be called autistic today based on the modern criteria
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:39 pm to KCRoyalBlue
quote:Yep
Watched the tennis video. I see zilch wrong with the guy. He started speaking later most others and now has the ability to focus on certain things? Welcome to Earth? I would argue that MOST of us can focus on SOMETHING that interests us. That's human nature.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:41 pm to The Torch
From 1960 to 2000, the rate of diagnosis was around 4/10,000 kids
That jumped to roughly 1/250 in the early 2000's
Latest CDC numbers are 1/32
Tylenol has been OTC since 1959
It's not the medicine that is driving that increase
That jumped to roughly 1/250 in the early 2000's
Latest CDC numbers are 1/32
Tylenol has been OTC since 1959
It's not the medicine that is driving that increase
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:42 pm to GeneralLeeAwesome
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My wife and I were just talking about this the other day, she works as a SPED teacher and the amount of kids with Autism is insane. She's at an elementary school and every single class has at least 1 kid with Autism in the class. We don't remember any when we were in grade school.
Wife is the psychologist who diagnoses the kids.
We all agree that maybe we went a bit too far with what we qualify as autistic but I that they get it right 90% of the time. The main goal is to get kids help as early as possible so they get help earlier and are able to grow/learn/cope out of problem.
This isn't an American-only issue btw
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:45 pm to L5ut1g3r
In the 70s, what is now called level two and level three autism spectrum disorder never made it into the school system. Many of them were institutionalized and kept out of the public light. Most were not even sent to school by their parents.
Surely you had some weirdos or ultra nerds in school. Some of those would now be classified as level one ASD.
The causes for increased diagnosis include: a significant widening of the umbrella for a diagnosis. In other words, the criteria for a diagnosis have been loosened with every subsequent DSM. Additionally, there is a much greater emphasis on the early identification of ASD. The public is better educated, teachers are better educated, and even pediatricians are better educated on ASD. In the 70s ASD screenings were not required during wellness checks for young children. They are now. Many people are coming out of the closet now to get diagnosed that would have never done so in the past. Same with parents bringing their children in for diagnostic evaluations.
The symptoms have always been there. Many were just not diagnosed in the past.
Surely you had some weirdos or ultra nerds in school. Some of those would now be classified as level one ASD.
The causes for increased diagnosis include: a significant widening of the umbrella for a diagnosis. In other words, the criteria for a diagnosis have been loosened with every subsequent DSM. Additionally, there is a much greater emphasis on the early identification of ASD. The public is better educated, teachers are better educated, and even pediatricians are better educated on ASD. In the 70s ASD screenings were not required during wellness checks for young children. They are now. Many people are coming out of the closet now to get diagnosed that would have never done so in the past. Same with parents bringing their children in for diagnostic evaluations.
The symptoms have always been there. Many were just not diagnosed in the past.
This post was edited on 9/22/25 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:47 pm to L5ut1g3r
Great point. Born in the 1960s. I only knew one kid growing up who was autistic.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:49 pm to L5ut1g3r
ZERO
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:50 pm to L5ut1g3r
Zero. And only one kid with a food allergy.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:51 pm to GeneralLeeAwesome
quote:
My wife and I were just talking about this the other day, she works as a SPED teacher and the amount of kids with Autism is insane. She's at an elementary school and every single class has at least 1 kid with Autism in the class. We don't remember any when we were in grade school.
If you look at when autism started to inflate it started about the same time Regan gave the children vaccine immunity of being sued. They upped the number of vaccines and autism skyrocketed . Used to be 1 in 2000 kids got it in the 80s now it's like 1 in 30 kids get it. I was born in the 70s and don't remember any kids having it in my school. I have three family members under the age of 10 that have it .
Amish kids don't get vaccinated at all and don't really have autism in their community.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:52 pm to lsupride87
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You never heard the word but you knew tons of kids that were like this
Do you not think that's a clear case of over-diagnosis? Just giving that dude a label? That may be your entire point—I can't tell.
In any case, I've known some barely functional and non-functional autistic kids since I have become an adult, and I didn't see any like them back in the 70s.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:53 pm to Bamafig
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And only one kid with a food allergy.
Yep.
And we thought that was the most off-the-wall thing we'd ever heard of.
This post was edited on 9/22/25 at 8:56 pm
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:53 pm to wackatimesthree
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