https://www.thefp.com/p/the-autism-surge-lies-conspiracies
The Autism Surge: Lies, Conspiracies,
and My Own Kids
The Free Press, by Jill Esher
Posted By: Greatjob, 7/22/2023 2:55:58 PM
In the summer of 2001 we took our younger son, two-year-old Jonathan, to the neurologist. He hadn’t developed speech, never played with toys, and had a compulsion to stare at cracks in the pavement while flapping his hands. The diagnosis was almost instant: autism. “He has it in spades,” the doctor said. Autism? We had hardly heard the term growing up, and we had nothing remotely like it up our family trees. My pregnancy was healthy and free from risk factors. Yet here we were, handed a devastating diagnosis, with our son sentenced, for no reason we could discern, to a lifetime of severe mental impairment. And it wasn’t just Jonny. CORRECTION*
*Intro text corrected. Please post article, not Source's intro.