Shocking new number in Autism numbers today!

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According to a new study,one out of 80% now have some form of Autism..now,compared to 50% Last Year,that's a shocking increase! It actually jumped by a Amazing margin!

It's obvious that these studies aren't very accurate. The amount of people diagnosed with autism hasn't gone up that much.

How meny shy,introverted kids get PDD-NOS now that every teacher and parent knows about autism these days and looks at it for anwsers. The Dx as it is now dosen't appear that hard for an NT to get if they have a slightly autistic-like personallity. I knew people who could get this on their shy, introverted personallity yet are for sure not autistic, not anything like me at all anyway.

http://www.autism.org.uk/about-autism/m ... rders.aspx

Either the math, the wording, or both in the op doesn't make any sense.

I do believe that the prevalence rates are much much higher than statistics show. This is because of people like me, or older, who were never diagnosed w/ AS as kids because no one knew anything about it, doctors included. Dr. Hanns Asperger's work was done in the 1940's in Austria under Nazi rule. It wasn't sent overseas to North America and translated to English until the early 1980's when I was born. Then it takes a lot of time for the info to spread and doctors to learn about AS traits & symptoms vs the very obviously low functioing symptoms associated with "Classic Autism." A lot more kids will be diagnosed younger now that people know the signs, and along with them many of their parents and adult relatives - such was the case for Michael Carley, Author of "Asperger's from the inside out." And has sort of been the case for me and my family members as it took me figuring out my own diagnosis to then seeing it throughout my mother's side of the family and others slowly accepting that they're also on the ASD spectrum. And there are many, Many, more like me. In fact, I know several other undiagnosed Aspie families who are not related to me. The rates are likely to skyrocket for these and other reasons, including misdiagnosis - but I suspect an awful lot more missed diagnoses.

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whirlingmind, 1-80%=1/80 I beleave, bad writing on the articals part I think.

I think it's an exaggeration. Like other people in this thread have already said, there are many adults who are being diagnosed, and more parents are becoming more concerned about their children. Plus, medicine is a growing industry in our modern economy, so frankly doctors want people to be sick so they can refer new patients to each others' specialist practices.

In addition, I think the introvert personality is becoming increasingly marginalised. The extroverts, with their ability to maneouvre with people, organisations and systems, are taking over. This can't go on forever, and I'm not saying that one day extroverts will rule the world entirely. Nor do I think introverts will turn the tide and dominate the world, either. But I'm watching it happen: being accused of being unsociable or very quiet like is being accused of being a nasty person: people judge. At my university, no-one studies in the quiet libary anymore, everyone wants to study while listening to music sprawled on a lounge, simultaneously chit-chatting with their friends. When I want to learn something, I want to learn where my ears aren't going to be ripped apart by the booming echo, and where I'm not going to be bothered every two seconds. I admit, I have studied while socialising, but I did it alone with a friend, not with the local Pretend to Study Club.

Anyway, introverted kids are probably getting sent to the doctor nowadays, whereas 20 years ago they would have just accepted that they are shy (that's what happened to me in the late '90s). I have also noticed that the stupider the person, the less accepting they are of introverts and the more likely they are to bully or marginalise them.

Damn, I feel like Karl Marx writing about class warfare. Anyway, that's just my opinionated two cents based on my personal experience.

The fact that many shrinks are complete tards that diagnose everything that moves with Aspergers/Autism does not help the statistics.

80% of all people in general? I really doubt that is accurate in fact I don't think that is even true of any countries. I don't think 50% of people had autism before either. where does this statistic come from?

The artical stated the ratio was 1 out of 80, now its 1 out of 50 get Dxed with an ASD of some type.

CDC report: 1 in 50 schoolchildren on autism spectrum

Heres the artical I think.

Does anyone else have the feeling the criteria are being applied too loosely these days?