"The Autism Enigma" CBC documentary

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I do not own this video.
CBC does.
This video is presented to inform WP members of the opinions of the presenters.
I have no vested interest in its contents.

http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episod ... nigma.html

I suspect that this blocks anyone with a non-Canadian IP. Trying to see if I can rectify it and download the contents somehow.

My apologies to you and all other readers.

I was unaware of that fact.

Thank you for seeking a solution!

I'm not Canadian and I can see it.

Since I'm not science I will tell you guys why. Because in the last 20 years mental health professionals have started to DX AS and PDD-NOS. For example - If you have revenue to count but you never count the $1s and $5s wouldn't your revenue increase if you started counting the 1s and 5s even though the number of actual paper bills don't change? But don't worry, science has a solution already. In order to reduce the growing rate of autism they are inventing new disorders to dilute the ASD population. The solution to almost everything these days is to 'cook the books'. Manipulating the numbers is a lot easier and cheaper than treatment, especially when you have a population that is too stupid, lazy or ambivalent to give a s**t. All is well as long as it looks good on paper.

PS. f**k CBC and everyone that blocks content.

I agree the way they use that 600% number is highly misleading. Not only was AS entered into the DSM in 1994, but testing procedures and research into the autism spectrum have developed quite far in that same time span as well. We are able to catch the presence of autism earlier and more accurately than was possible prior to 1994. The report seems to imply that the rate of autism is increasing, when really there are no studies backing up that claim. Dx rate is higher for entirely different reason, as stated.

wish I could get this to play.........

Add to that the fact that quite a few Aspie traits wer'nt seen as issues until comparatively recently, and a more urbanizied population where some of the traits would turn up more often.

I can't get it to play either. I'm disappointed, as I really wanted to watch it. Thanks for sharing anyway.

To anyone outside of Canada, you may be able to mask your IP to a Canadian one. I've never tried it but if you're into that kind of thing:

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/inter ... ddress.htm

I can't see the video either.

But from reading the text, I wonder isn't part of that increase due to the fact that it's now diagnosed better than in the past?

I knew a woman, now deceased, that I met when she was in her 60s, about 30 years ago, who I immediately suspected was autistic, so much about her reminded me of an autistic man I'd worked with. But her family said she had a fall as a baby and suffered brain damage. I accepted that at the time, but since then I've read that a lot of older auties (and auties now deceased) were thought to be brain damaged, and that it was common for there to be a family story about what might have caused it, because people didn't realize it was autism and that it might not be obvious yet in an infant, so they assumed it was something that started because of an accident. I still suspect this woman I knew was autistic, just never diagnosed properly.

I was not diagnosed for Asperger's (still am not) as a child, but I was a child long before the diagnosis was available.

Now it's diagnosed more often. Makes sense. I don't see that as necessarily an increase in the incidence of autism as it is an increase in the success of diagnostic protocols and more education among professionals, including teachers.

But it is interesting that there might be an intestinal flora connection...wish I could see the video.