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Originally Posted by uno
People think when someone is lacking in a certain area that its overcompensated somehow in another.
When did this autism explosion start? It seems like a pretty "new" epidemic, no?
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It is all about diagnosis. From what I have read after my cousin was diagnosed, especially with the more mild 'high functioning' cases in the past it may not have been picked up. I watched this one show on the BBC about a mother over here that has something like three or four boys all with various levels of autism. She is a really impressive woman. Anyway, during the show they went to a specialist and he talked about diagnosing a kid and watching the father isolate himself slightly in the room and he decided to investigate and it turns out the father had a mild form too and had just been consider anti-social all of his life.
Stuart have you read The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime ? It is a fictional book told from the perspective of a autistic boy. My family found it valuable just to get that insight. Plus, it is a good read.