> 1 in 44 8-year-olds diagnosed
>"Increased autism diagnoses"
>We know that we have eyes
>From what cause?
>What population?
>Increased from what previous figures?
1 in 44 Amish.
oh wait, sorry
that's 0
CDC are retards
>https://sharylattkisson.com/2014/07/where-are-the-autistic-amish/
Where are the Autistic Amish?
Dated: July 20, 2014 by Sharyl Attkisson 7 Comments
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This is an interesting article written several years ago by UPI investigative journalist Dan Olmsted. It asks "Where are the autistic Amish?"
After the article was published, back when more reporters were covering the scientific links between vaccines and autism, I asked an official from the __Centers for Disease Control (CDC) __about the supposed lack of autism in the unvaccinated Amish. She said that there could be many other reasons besides the community's aversion to vaccines. For example, "They don't use electricity, right?" she told me. In other words, she seemed to put lack of electricity on equal footing with lack of vaccinations when it comes to what could be responsible for the apparent lower than average autism rate in the unvaccinated Amish.
>http://www.whale.to/vaccine/olmsted.html
The Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly
By Dan Olmsted
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Lancaster, PA, Apr. 18 (UPI) – Part 1 of 2.
Where are the autistic Amish? Here in Lancaster County, heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, there should be well over 100 with some form of the disorder.
I have come here to find them, but so far my mission has failed, and the very few I have identified raise some very interesting questions about some widely held views on autism.
The mainstream scientific consensus says autism is a complex genetic disorder, one that has been around for millennia at roughly the same prevalence. That prevalence is now considered to be 1 in every 166 children born in the United States.
Applying that model to Lancaster County, there ought to be 130 Amish men, women and children here with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Well over 100, in rough terms.
Typically, half would harbor milder variants such as Asperger's Disorder or the catch-all Pervasive Development Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified – PDD-NOS for short.
So let's drop those from our calculation, even though "mild" is a relative term when it comes to autism.
That means upwards of 50 Amish people of all ages should be living in Lancaster County with full-syndrome autism, the "classic autism" first described in 1943 by child psychiatrist Leo Kanner at Johns Hopkins University. The full-syndrome disorder is hard to miss, characterized by "markedly abnormal or impaired development in social interaction and communication and a markedly restricted repertoire of activities and interests," according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Why bother looking for them among the Amish? Because they could hold clues to the cause of autism.
The first half-dozen articles in this ongoing series on the roots and rise of autism examined the initial studies and early accounts of the disorder, first identified by Kanner among 11 U.S. children born starting in 1931.
Kanner wrote that his 1938 encounter with a child from Mississippi, identified as Donald T., "made me aware of a behavior pattern not known to me or anyone else theretofore." Kanner literally wrote the book on "Child Psychiatry," published in 1934.
If Kanner was correct if autism was new and increasingly prevalent something must have happened in the 1930s to trigger those first autistic cases. Genetic disorders do not begin suddenly or increase dramatically in prevalence in a short period of time.
That is why it is worth looking for autistic Amish – to test reasoning against reality. Largely cut off for hundreds of years from American culture and scientific progress, the Amish might have had less exposure to some new factor triggering autism in the rest of population.
Surprising, but no one seems to have looked.