3/5/2024 UPDATE ~
What is the new rate of autism in the CDC?
The Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network is the only collaborative network to track the number and characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities in multiple communities throughout the United States.
In a pair of new reports — one focused on 8-year-olds and one on 4-year-olds — the CDC found that 1 out of every 36 children has autism. This is a significant increase from the 2021 estimate of 1 in 44, which was a big jump from 1 in 110 in 2006.
Retrieved online from:
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/addm-network-sites.html
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A reminder that my website offers Extended Reviews of books written by those who have gone before us. Hopefully, you will enjoy reading all of these books, not just the parts in my reviews. Search the MENU for No You Don’t – Essays from an Unstrange Mind by Sparrow Rose Jones, eBook 2013 Edition; an Extended Review with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
What is the new rate of autism in the CDC?
The Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network is the only collaborative network to track the number and characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities in multiple communities throughout the United States.
In a pair of new reports — one focused on 8-year-olds and one on 4-year-olds — the CDC found that 1 out of every 36 children has autism. This is a significant increase from the 2021 estimate of 1 in 44, which was a big jump from 1 in 110 in 2006.
Retrieved online from:
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/addm-network-sites.html
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A reminder that my website offers Extended Reviews of books written by those who have gone before us. Hopefully, you will enjoy reading all of these books, not just the parts in my reviews. Search the MENU for No You Don’t – Essays from an Unstrange Mind by Sparrow Rose Jones, eBook 2013 Edition; an Extended Review with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
No You Don’t – Essays from an Unstrange Mind by Sparrow Rose Jones, eBook 2013 Edition; an Extended Review with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
Excerpts from the book – (3% indicates location in the Kindle version of the book, instead of page numbers).
3% “...I am not a different species, an alien creature, a changeling, a robot, a freak of nature. …my mind is unstrange. I am a familiar word, pronounced with a different accent. I am your mother’s recipe prepared by a stranger. I am your favorite song, recorded by a new artist. I am a human being; I am Autistic.”
28% Have you ever spent half the day lost in the beauty of watching how water moves? Have you ever solved a Rubik’s Cube in less than a minute?
41% They say we have an “epidemic” of autism, a veritable tsunami of Autistic kids.
42% And those kids are going to grow up into a world that doesn’t want them, that doesn’t want to employ them, that thinks they’re scamming the system if they live on government support.
6% Researchers are only beginning to really look at autistic adults in any number. Even though the first people… diagnosed with autism are in their 70’s and 80’s now.
40% I am not just disabled by my conditions. I am not just disabled by my difficulties in saying no and asking for help.
I am disabled…by the attitudes it has about what I can do and what I cannot do. I face strong discrimination every day…”you look just fine to me”…
< My Thoughts > "...you look just fine to me”…
Green (2013), in her review of various articles, discovered that much of the literature brings up the ‘invisibility of autism’. Families seem to experience long-term stress and anxiety because of experiencing societies’ expectations of the person with autism, the ‘invisible disability’.
Tozer, et al. (2013), agree with Green’s findings and adds to that, how a family “tries very hard to maintain normalcy.” But, the “family seems to be inhabiting two worlds.” ‘One world’, the inside world, where they understand and work with the disability; and, ‘one world’, the outside world, where to “maintain normalcy” is just as important to them. Attempting to uphold both ‘worlds’ brings on stress and added struggles within the family. In a way, ‘maintaining normalcy’ to the outside world makes the autism even more invisible. And, the person with autism (who is passing as normal) is “less likely to socially negotiate” their authentic place in the world.
43% We are Autistics and we are better off when you focus your energy on helping us to be the best Autistics we can be.
< My Thoughts > "...helping us to be the best Autistics we can be."
Max Jones, formerly known as Sparrow Rose Jones, has more recently written about being Transgender. You may find him on many social media cites. Also found on my site MENU is
The ABCs of Autism Acceptance by Sparrow Rose Jones, eBook 2016; an Extended Review with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker.
Until next time. Regards, Sara Luker
References:
Green, L. (2013). The Well-Being of Siblings of Individuals with Autism. Hindawi Publishing Corporation ISRN Neurology Volume 2013, Article ID 417194, 7 pages.
Tozer, R., et al. (2013). Continuity, commitment and context: adult siblings of people with autism plus learning disability. Health & Social Care in the Community; Vol. 21:5, p. 480-488.
Excerpts from the book – (3% indicates location in the Kindle version of the book, instead of page numbers).
3% “...I am not a different species, an alien creature, a changeling, a robot, a freak of nature. …my mind is unstrange. I am a familiar word, pronounced with a different accent. I am your mother’s recipe prepared by a stranger. I am your favorite song, recorded by a new artist. I am a human being; I am Autistic.”
28% Have you ever spent half the day lost in the beauty of watching how water moves? Have you ever solved a Rubik’s Cube in less than a minute?
41% They say we have an “epidemic” of autism, a veritable tsunami of Autistic kids.
42% And those kids are going to grow up into a world that doesn’t want them, that doesn’t want to employ them, that thinks they’re scamming the system if they live on government support.
6% Researchers are only beginning to really look at autistic adults in any number. Even though the first people… diagnosed with autism are in their 70’s and 80’s now.
40% I am not just disabled by my conditions. I am not just disabled by my difficulties in saying no and asking for help.
I am disabled…by the attitudes it has about what I can do and what I cannot do. I face strong discrimination every day…”you look just fine to me”…
< My Thoughts > "...you look just fine to me”…
Green (2013), in her review of various articles, discovered that much of the literature brings up the ‘invisibility of autism’. Families seem to experience long-term stress and anxiety because of experiencing societies’ expectations of the person with autism, the ‘invisible disability’.
Tozer, et al. (2013), agree with Green’s findings and adds to that, how a family “tries very hard to maintain normalcy.” But, the “family seems to be inhabiting two worlds.” ‘One world’, the inside world, where they understand and work with the disability; and, ‘one world’, the outside world, where to “maintain normalcy” is just as important to them. Attempting to uphold both ‘worlds’ brings on stress and added struggles within the family. In a way, ‘maintaining normalcy’ to the outside world makes the autism even more invisible. And, the person with autism (who is passing as normal) is “less likely to socially negotiate” their authentic place in the world.
43% We are Autistics and we are better off when you focus your energy on helping us to be the best Autistics we can be.
< My Thoughts > "...helping us to be the best Autistics we can be."
Max Jones, formerly known as Sparrow Rose Jones, has more recently written about being Transgender. You may find him on many social media cites. Also found on my site MENU is
The ABCs of Autism Acceptance by Sparrow Rose Jones, eBook 2016; an Extended Review with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker.
Until next time. Regards, Sara Luker
References:
Green, L. (2013). The Well-Being of Siblings of Individuals with Autism. Hindawi Publishing Corporation ISRN Neurology Volume 2013, Article ID 417194, 7 pages.
Tozer, R., et al. (2013). Continuity, commitment and context: adult siblings of people with autism plus learning disability. Health & Social Care in the Community; Vol. 21:5, p. 480-488.
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