Vaccination & epidemic

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Originally Posted by skysidhe

This paragraph again makes me think that the label of austim is highly overused.

We've already addressed the issue of whether the prevalence is real; the numbers show conclusively that you're wrong. But if you don't want to slog through statistical proofs, just ask a special ed teacher who works in a public school. The schools know what's going on better than anyone: they're going broke creating new special education classrooms for all these autistic kids. If there is any way these kids can make it in a regular classroom, they try to force them in, because they can't afford all the extra teachers, aides, and therapists these kids require. In turn, you can also ask any general education teacher who's been doing it for 30 years--they, too, will tell you that the kids today are not like the kids were when they first started teaching, and that the low-level spectrum kids that are forced to try to make it in a real classroom are nothing like the social misfits they used to have (and still have in the same numbers today.)