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09 Dec 2007, 2:23 pm

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but there's an article in Scientific American about autism.

Here's the link

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=is- ... m-epidemic

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09 Dec 2007, 2:25 pm

it's 1 in 150, actually

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09 Dec 2007, 4:10 pm

It's probably something that's always existed, it's just that now they have a name for it, and recognize it.

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09 Dec 2007, 4:22 pm

I just read the article, the increase in diagnoses stems, it seems, from the change in diagnostic criteria.
Groups such as Autism Speaks would have you believe that 1 out of 150 children is uncontrollable and severely
ret*d. Such kids under the new definitions of autism are the minority of cases.

By the way shouldn't this be in the Current Events or the General Autism Forums?

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10 Dec 2007, 11:17 am

Scientific American has gone downhill as Science. Mention it, quote a few comments.

I would think a lot of new Degrees in Psych, and industry building.

Mentally ret*d, learning disabled, cost School Districts big bucks.

They are treatable. Congress passes a law.

Autism is not treatable, so a freebe,

Psychologists do not work with students, they are in house office workers for School Districts.

They are a rubber stamp that sounds real.

They pretend to be part of the Medical Profession. They are laughed at.

They set up Boards to Approve each other.

They have a Masters Degree, in what? It is not a Science.

What powers of mind does a Masters Degree in History, Socialogy, impart?

None, it takes a lot more learning to get a teaching job in Grammer School.

I would rather put Historians in charge, at least History did once exist.

History is based on facts, evidence, but it is not a Science.

Psychology is a Religion.

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10 Dec 2007, 5:05 pm

Inventor wrote:

"History is based on facts, evidence, but it is not a Science.

Psychology is a Religion."

"Anything that is not governed by mathematics is opinion." -Robert A. Heinlein

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11 Dec 2007, 1:27 am

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it's 1 in 150, actually

Statistics!! !!

150 can be thought of as an estimate of the central tendency of a population of data points. A confidence interval can be constructed with, for example, 150 as its middle value. There is a (usually) 95% chance that the true value lies within this interval, which has 150 as its middle value. The true value could be slightly higher or lower from 150. So a value of, say 166, is actually a possible value.

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11 Dec 2007, 1:31 am

Also, try studying some psychology before you call it a religion. Last time I checked, there are no articles of faith in psychology. And if you say that there are, you should also learn some philosophy of science.

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11 Dec 2007, 1:55 am

What's this doing here? I'm shifting this to the News forum.

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11 Dec 2007, 10:21 pm

This is one of the early cases Leo Kanner diagnosed on his eleven cases. I should think the statistics for the prevalance of autism was down in those pioneer times largely due to a lack of clinicians like Kanner. It would not surprise me if the old Kanners criteria for autism was applied to the general population these days the figure would also be around 1 in 150 or maybe less to lable a large proportion of gifted children with ASD.

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Case 8
Alfred was brought by his mother in November, 1935 at 3 ½ years of age with this complaint:
“He has gradually shown a marked tendency towards developing one special interest which will completely dominate his day’s activities. He talks of little else while his interests exist, he frets when he is not able to indulge in it (by seeing it, coming in contact with it, drawing pictures of it), and it is difficult to get his attention because of his preoccupation …. There has been the problem of over attachment to the world of objects and failure to develop the usual amount of social awareness”

Alfred, upon entering the office, paid no attention to the examiner. He immediately spotted a train in the toy cabinet, took it out, and connected and disconnected the cars in a slow monotonous manner. He kept saying many times, More train – more train – more train. He repeatedly “counted” the cars windows – “One, two windows – one two windows – four window – eight windows.” He could not in any way be distracted from the trains. A Binet test was attempted in the room in which there were no trains. It was possible with much difficultly to pierce from time to time through his pre-occupations. He finally complied in most instances in a manner that clearly indicated that he wanted to get through with the particular intrusion.; this was repeated with each individual item of the task. In the end he achieved an I,Q. of 140

Leo Kanner

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