Grrrr, vaccine ARE connected with autism. >.< That's a

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I think that is true in the case of someone who actually thinks there may be something wrong with their child. I never saw a doctor for what was "wrong" with me until I was 21, and then because he had no idea that AS even existed, he blew me off.

There were special little things about me, there were idiosynchracies, but there was nothing that would lead anyone to believe I needed to see a doctor.

Add to that a system where nearly 1 in 5 people can't afford healthcare and those little things become even less important. LFAs maybe even HFAs would get taken to a doctor, surely, but I have to wonder how many Aspies see doctors. I wouldn't be even remotely surprised to learn that 1 in 5 Aspies born in the US TODAY will make it to adulthood with absolutely no idea that they're even on the spectrum.

I've mainly meant the parents with children who are diagnosed with classical or asperger's in early childhood. The majority of these people are in close contact with doctors of all kind after the diagnosis of their child. That's also the group of people that will be used for studies like the above mentioned mainly.

I very much agree with the rest.

My bad, I think you missed my point.

I wholly believe that based on the lack of universal medicare in the US, 1 in 5 children are not going to get diagnosed. That's because of poverty ADD to them, the number of kids who will go undiagnosed because their parents just haven't the slightest clue that they're even looking at an autism situation; like my Mother was, and the numbers become insanely high.

It will happen. It does. How do I know? Because many of us have made it to our ripe old ages without a diagnosis. Just because someone is an aspie doesn't mean that anyone other than the aspie will realize that there is something wrong with them. We recognize it, that's what has movitated us to seek help or a diagnosis, whichever we can get.

I'll also make the note, although it may be substantially moot to this discussion, that there are way more aspies in the world, currently, who have not been diagnosed (baby boomers) than there will be born in the next decade. I think it behooves us all to recognize that fact.