AND SPEAKING OF BIGOTS AND ASSHOLES

Conservative moran Thomas Sowell shows his ass in his latest column on autism. (Yes, I really did just link to freerepublic.com) What Camarata has also encountered is something that I encountered in my smaller group— parents who have been told to allow their child to be diagnosed as autistic, in order to become eligible for government money that is available, and can be used for speech therapy or whatever other treatment the child might need. How much this may have contributed to the soaring statistics on the number of children diagnosed as autistic is something that nobody knows — and apparently not many people are talking about it. Another factor in the great increase in the number of children diagnosed as autistic is a growing practice of referring to children as being on “the autistic spectrum.” In other words, a child may not actually be autistic but has a number of characteristics common among autistic children. The problem with this approach is that lots of ch...