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‘Profound Autism’ Accounts For More Than 1 In 4 Cases, CDC Finds​

A boy with severe autism chews on a washcloth, which calms him.

With a new report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tacitly embracing a recently coined autism classification and providing a first-of-its-kind breakdown on the number of kids on the severe versus milder ends of the spectrum.

Researchers from the federal health agency published a study this month in the journal Public Health Reports indicating that 26.7% of children with autism have what’s known as “profound autism,” meaning that they are nonverbal, minimally verbal or have an intelligence quotient of less than 50.

Other kids with the developmental disability have more mild presentations, the study found.

The term profound autism is new, with an international panel of experts first calling for the distinction in an article published in The Lancet in late 2021. They argued that the needs of people on the spectrum who require 24-hour care are being obscured by being lumped into the same diagnostic category as individuals who are capable of earning college degrees.

The latest research is based on data collected through the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, which regularly conducts surveillance on the prevalence of autism among 8-year-olds in select communities across the country. For the study, researchers looked at information from 20,135 kids with autism across 15 sites who were age 8 between 2000 and 2016.

“We saw this as an opportunity to use CDC’s ADDM Network data to bring data to the discourse around profound autism to better describe those who met The Lancet commission’s profound autism criteria and changes in prevalence over time,” said Michelle Hughes, an epidemiologist at the CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities who led the study.

The study found that the prevalence of both profound and non-profound autism grew over time, but the increase was more substantial for children with milder presentations.

“This means that over time, there has been a lower proportional representation of those with profound autism compared to those with non-profound autism,” Hughes said.

Kids with profound autism were more likely to be girls, be from racial and ethnic minority groups and come from households with lower socioeconomic status, the researchers found. These children also were more commonly born early or at low birth weight and to have self-injurious behaviors, seizure disorders and lower adaptive scores.

“We need to know how many people have profound autism so that we can properly plan for their school and residential needs and improve the services they receive,” said Alison Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation and a co-author of the new report and a member of The Lancet commission. “Their needs are going to be very different than those of an autistic person graduating from Harvard Law School.”

But not everyone is happy to see the CDC and others using the classification of profound autism.

“While I think it is fine for the CDC to analyze how many people in their autistic sample are nonspeaking or have intellectual disabilities, even among and between those groups, people’s support needs and how their disabilities affect them can dramatically vary,” said Zoe Gross, director of advocacy at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. “We are concerned to see the CDC using a term like profound autism, especially given the lack of an evidence base for autism subtypes.”

 

[Tasty Tatty]

The snowflake autism mothers of social media try to hide the fact that severe autism exists because it puts into question if their children really are autistic.

That's a different diagnosis there: Munchausen by proxy.

You should be devastated by your child having any disorder (and mask it well for the sake of the kid), not making blogs or videos about how heroic you are for it.

Hasn't autism been on a spectrum for awhile now? Since Asperger's diagnosis fell out of fashion with it now being "ASD" (Autism Spectrum Disorder).

Anything that comes as a "spectrum" should make you double check for its validity, like genders. Often it's just a fancy word for patients that come saying "i'm just a bit obese" or "I'm just a bit diabetic" or "I just have a bit of depression". That's not how it works: you either have it or not. For example, if obesity is categorized for people with a weight from 100 to 150kg, you are not more or less obese for being 100 or 150, you're just fatter or not so fat, but you are still OBESE. Many patients are either in denial or just want to use their sicknesses to their own benefit.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Asperger's is actually no longer a disorder in DSM-V it is Social Pragmatic Disorder. And it always was seperate from an autism diagnosis when coded.

 

[Troonos]

A boy with severe autism chews on a washcloth, which calms him.

Well, at least I know I'm not autistic. I can't think of a less calming sensation than biting a washcloth. God, it's horrible.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

The rise in autism correlates with the rise in women wanting victim points and using their kids as social media points.

It's a load of old cods wallop.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

I wunder if we're entering a new era of diseases.

The meme diseases like "mild" autism, assbergers and trannyism. Diseases that spread via social media to weak minds and attention whores.

Parents, almost always single mothers, who crave attention and get money and validation via social media.

Then you have the lonely, useless, sad sacks who get convinced that their lives will turn around if they choppe off their dicks because they see the Dylan Mulvaney's of Internet fame and spend too much time on Reddit and Twitter where all their worst biases are reinforced by people who are either as fucked up and useless as they are or perverts who get sexual gratification from "egging" someone.

Kind of interest really. Disease as a social contagion rather then an actual virus or bacteria but acts all the same.

 

[Atatata]

90% of kids diagnosed with autism are just children whose parents never properly raised but want an explanation for why they can't properly socialize and demand a "treatment" or a pass to excuse them.

I have no proof, but I have no doubts either.

Well, there's that

Kids with profound autism were more likely to be girls, be from racial and ethnic minority groups and come from households with lower socioeconomic status, the researchers found. These children also were more commonly born early or at low birth weight and to have self-injurious behaviors, seizure disorders and lower adaptive scores.

 

[Ishtar]

“high” functioning autism and aspergers(is that still used?) should honestly be treated separately than bash your head against a wall until you crack your skull open while being unable to even talk autism.

The former causes social handicaps and emotional distress, but you can still (mostly) function, the latter is an argument for eugenics.

 

[Equal Rights for Androids]

1 in 4 kids is autistic

1 in 4 kids identifies as gay or trans.

There's already correlation studies between the two. Higher levels of mental illness and Autism amongst trannies.

Anything that comes as a "spectrum" should make you double check for its validity, like genders. Often it's just a fancy word for patients that come saying "i'm just a bit obese" or "I'm just a bit diabetic" or "I just have a bit of depression". That's not how it works: you either have it or not. For example, if obesity is categorized for people with a weight from 100 to 150kg, you are not more or less obese for being 100 or 150, you're just fatter or not so fat, but you are still OBESE. Many patients are either in denial or just want to use their sicknesses to their own benefit.

It's called a spectrum because IQ and brain development is a spectrum. It's not black and white. Being on the spectrum means you have it. No professional is claiming that you're 'less autistic' by having aspergers or 'more autistic' for being nonverbal.

I don't understand how "science" keeps pushing the rates of autism in children higher and higher, year after year. Like, no fucking way 1/4 kids have the tism. At what point is it 1/1 kids has it?

Edit: nvm. But this is what I'm talking about:

Data and Statistics on Autism Spectrum Disorder | CDC

About 1.7% of 8-year-old children in 11 communities in the US were identified with autism in 2014. See more autism data.

www.cdc.gov

In this day and age, it's possible. There's ridiculous amounts of fluoride in the water. Lead exposure still continues to be an issue (especially with lack of oversight in China). Stressors in the environment. But most damning is the age in which children are conceived.

Males are the greatest contributors to autism. The older you are as a male, the lower quality your sperm is (due to how often sperm divides after birth). That lower quality is a bigger contributor to defects in your child than the age of a mother's eggs, which divide only once after birth. If you want to lower the risk of having a retarded child, have kids when you're younger, men.

More people are having children when they're older (more financially stable).

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

Hm. It was a third a few years ago, so the number of high-functioning autistic diagnoses is going up.

Severe autism is the kind of shit that makes you want to cry. Kids (you don't want to see them grown up) who are literally scared of the lights coming on, rocking themselves back and forth in a dark, quiet room curled up on the floor, unable to tell their parents when they need to be taken to the bathroom.

 

[Ishtar]

When I subbed in an elementary school one day I saw some of the kids referred too here. One had some sort of cloth or other object in his mouth to chew on constantly because he’d bite anything else if not given something to chew on. He had a helmet for that reason.

One was a girl that was entirely speechless and rocked her head back and forth and constantly tried to hit the wall or her desk, the ladies in the class had to watch everything she did and stop her from basically killing herself.

It was terrible, these kids were invalids. Having a kid with aspergers means they’ll struggle socially, have a somewhat limited(or very abstract theory of mind) and likely tend to be socially ostracized, depending on how intelligent they are they can mostly function in society, so long as they have jobs that don’t require prodigious social skills. It’s a handicap that prevents one from a truly normal life, but one can still have a largely normal life.

These kids never will, they will never have families, they will never be gainfully employed. They’ll continue to insist on repeating the same stimuli over and over again(a certain kind of music, a show, certain sounds), while being a burden on their parents and society.

 

[Lucille Bluth]

Didn't the tards and their handlers always hammer home that all this was a "spectrum"? I'm glad I don't anyone with "profound autism" and will never work in a field centred around them. I could not imagine dealing with their shit.

Anyways, all this talk of autism and other "disorders" is why troons and other alphabet members are on the rise. Strong correlation between autism and other mental issues and identifying as trans, enby or other freakshows.

 

[Ishtar]

I suspect for a lot of higher functioning autists, trooning out is one way to get attention and social status, they’ve always lacked. Before people either bullied them, pitied them or were at best generally polite while otherwise ignoring them.

If you are a nerdy dude with aspergers, you might hold down a job, pay rent, order dinner, groceries, etc… without trouble but you’re always going to be a marginal figure, people won’t tend to respect you or put you on a pedestal, you will be overlooked and lower on the totem pole, even if people aren’t shoving you into lockers.

To troon out attracts attention, it raises your social cache. No longer are you a nobody lazily staring at some hot woman’s Instagram feed, you are getting clout and attention or at least you feel like you are.

Obviously they aren’t doing this consciously but I think that has a lot to do with it.

 

[Pokemon Conquistador]

What's really scary is when these severe cases get older and violent:

It looks like the kid is in a nonstop Hell. I can't imagine having any quality of life under those circumstances, nor would I want to see my child going through that.

 

[GenociderSyo]

It looks like the kid is in a nonstop Hell. I can't imagine having any quality of life under those circumstances, nor would I want to see my child going through that.

A lot do get violent especially during puberty. They still have all the sexual urgers that a normal person has. I tend to skip over that age when taking work because they can and will attempt to force themselves on you or others and it was not something I wanted to deal with.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Pretty much its people trying to deny this form of autism exists and is not as rare as they pretend that is driving the distinction being made.
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The snowflake autism mothers of social media try to hide the fact that severe autism exists because it puts into question if their children really are autistic.

Aspergers is different enough to be it’s own thing imo. I’ve noticed a lot of them tend to go against the grain whereas autists like Chris try to fit in but do so fairly poorly.

The truth of this study is 3/4 autists could function well in society and "be normal" if properly raised, educated, and socialized.

But they won't, because everyone has to be different and special now and normal is bad.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

90% of kids diagnosed with autism are just children whose parents never properly raised but want an explanation for why they can't properly socialize and demand a "treatment" or a pass to excuse them.

I have no proof, but I have no doubts either.

Most cases happen because many parents shove a screen in their child’s face as early as possible. Kids used to go outside and socialize, now it’s front of a tablet or phone screen from sunup to sundown. Then they wonder why little Aydan is a barely functioning retard. It must be autism! The cases in this article appear to be the real deal but most cases appear to be poor socialization due to being raised on nothing but screens.