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Conference Concerns Autism

By Bob Small

Another flyer from the  Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Conference was about the Autism Health Summit scheduled for Feb. 2 and 3 in San Antonio.

It will be streamed live online.

Protection of the Educational Rights of Kids (PERK) is encouraging it be watched. PERK says that because there is no medical cure for autism, many parents turn to biomedical treatments and therapies. Most of these treatments are low-risk, and some have the potential to be life-changing. 

This is not to be confused with any of the “establishment” conferences about autism such as the International Conference on Autism which follows the accepted narratives.

The New York Times article  Autism Prevalence Rises Again, Study Finds implies that there are not more cases of autism but as Professor Catherine Lord of the UCLA Medical School says “I have a feeling there is just more discovery.”

There are a number of issues brought up on Adults with Autism  How to navigate adulthood on the autism spectrum  “As individuals continue to grow and develop . . . what autism looks like in a person, really changes”.  This was from Vanessa Bal, Rutgers University associate professor of psychology.

“For some people, not having an explanation of how to understand themselves is really difficult,” she says. 

Rebecca Faith Quinn, an LA actress with autism said . “A lot of autism experts get so focused on the autism that they forget they are looking at an autistic person, , , , That is a very dehumanizing experience.”  

In summation, adults with autism are very often an ignored population.

For many years when I woke up at seven in the morning for my driving job. I listened to Imus in the Morning once I delivered my charge, and then, after breakfast, driving home.  Imus was controversial and sometimes went way past controversy and ended up apologizing for things he should not have said.

The CHD wrote a  a tribute him for his support of those suffering from autism.

“His commitment to airing all sides of controversial issues became apparent to the autism community in 2005 and 2006 as the   Combating Autism Act  (CAA) was being discussed in Congress. The Act, which was ultimately signed into law by George W. Bush in December of 2006, “

The treatments for autism continue to be controversial.

Conference Concerns Autism