Well, this is rather random...>.>

Please don't say things like "alarming" and "strike", its not a terrorist attack. Too many people are buying into the "epidemic" mind set these days, without stopping to think how else this increase could have happened.

As far as I've heard a lot of autistic people actually do have the genes or probability in their familes. I know lots of autistic people who have other autistic family members, or people who are not quite "autistic" enough to get a dignosis but who share many of the traits (this is a spectrum we're talkin about).

[The general stuff I seem to be obligated to say nowadays -_- : It's not an epidemic. It's not caused by mercury or vaccines. Autistic people are not all amazing at maths. Don't use rainman as your primary source. There is no cure and lots of autisitc people don't actually want to be. Chelation is child abuse. Autism is not a "disease out to steal our chidren" nor is it always as dire as people like to think.]


Yes I know quite a few autistic people (those with and without a diagnosis). I am autistic myself.

*ignore the stuff in brackets if you don't get it*