BAM 97X. The future of rock and roll.

Sadly, for some, a child with a chronic condition is like a Lotto ticket. Sick, sad, world.

How dare you!

I would imagine the mommies are the autistic ones.

This right here. 1st hand experience with my son.

Just look at RDak's memes.

When did a huge amount of kids stop being little brats with shitty parents and start being on the spectrum

Bingo. “Why is your kid such a shit head?”

“He’s on the spectrum.” Please feel bad for me because I am a shitty parent.”

Snort

Now that every kid is autistic you need something else to make them more snowflake.

Do spectrum-ers(?) get a different car magnet?

Don't you know that piss poor parenting can't be the problem?
Kids can't be accountable for themselves at all...

They all have autism, asshale-bergers, ADHD or some other variation, and the solution is either medicate to zombie land or let them run like wild animals..

And for the record, my nephew is Autistic...beyond Rainman.
I take great offense when people use the ADHD/Autism crap excuses for their kids lack of discipline.

I will never hear "Hey uncle Matt," or have a 'normal' conversation with him.
He is 10 now, goes to some of the best schools for autism. Can't speak in complete sentences but absorbs information beyond that of a MAC Book.

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Bingo.

You have the Rain Man types, and the average engineer types

Mine too. We knew it when he was in school, but now just officially had him diagnosed at the age of 22.

People like to be edgy, and make fun of it, but there were times when he could be a nightmare to deal with, and other times
just outright heartbreaking

Back when the DSM had several different diagnoses available, the IDEA primary disability classification that reflected on IEPs was Autism. (i.e. If a kid qualified for special education services based on Aspergers or one of the other lesser known syndromes, the IDEA classification was Autism.) There is sometimes a difference between the medical or psych diagnoses that a person has and the applicable educational label. It's not dissimilar from the plethora or mental illnesses that are serviced under the educational label of Emotional Disturbance. It is also relevant to note that for IEP purposes, a kid with dual diagnoses may have autism but be serviced on the basis of something else. For example, a kid with clinical diagnoses of depression and autism spectrum disorder whose education is more impacted by the depression would likely receive services under the educational label of Emotional Disturbance, not Autism. Under IDEA, the educational plan would still have to meet the student's whole needs (and the educational strategies would likely be informed by the knowledge of both clinical issues).

Sometimes parents and districts might find that certain resources might be easier to get when a student is receiving services under certain educational labels/ primary disability classifications.

Perception of stigma also drives labeling. Consider the hypothetical that I previously suggested, in which a kid has dual clinical diagnoses of depression and autism spectrum disorder. A parent might be very opposed to the educational label of Emotional Disturbance because of perceived stigma. Nobody holds carnivals for depression awareness or puts bumper stickers on their car to express how special they feel having a kid who is diagnoses with depression. Autism is something that is embraced right now and is something that people have an element of awareness for (hence all of the autism awareness events in various communities, ribbons on cars, etc....). They may be more likely to accept services under the Autism label.

In terms of money for special education servicing. It is often substantially more expensive to educate students  with disabilities than the added funding that a district gets for them. That is more and more true when a kid requires any sort of significant assistive technology, 1:1 or other small ratio intensive staffing, special nursing support, special transportation, or out of district placement (or some combination of the above).

I'm probably on the spectrum after 14 mixed drinks.

Spectrum is the name of my cable provider. They are aptly named.

When they stopped handing out the belt for bad behavior.

So, they are all autistic in some way. In other words binary.

also,
I don't know if its been mentioned here yet but Public Schools have been pushing the spectrum bullshit to alot of students and their families to gain more federal education money due to the special needs issue.

in Tulsa i think the they try to diagnose every kid with it due to their budget crunch.

You level up every three years you spend in GD. I'm going for the high score.

I’m on spectrum and it provides shitty internet service.

Eighty-two, eighty-two, eighty-two.

Two hundred, fffffforty six.

Oh, no. They’re here. They’re real. And maybe not out in force as much as they used to be, but lurking on the sidelines.

The problem is that you still have more traditional people in denial that their kid has issues, while the special snowflake crowd wants their kid to be labeled so they gain intersection points among their peer group.

Most males actually are.

Most of them died from the measles.

Apples to peaches.  ASRM asked, "How many vaccines are you willing to take?"  My bolding, I answered him.  He did not ask how many vaccines would I be willing to give my kid.  In that case, the answer is all the recommended ones, just spreading them out, not 6 at a time.

That's what you think.

When I was a kid..........these kids were “retarded”

This.

I think there are definite varying degrees of autism.

My mom (66 years old) is definitely on the spectrum - just back when she was a kid they didn't quite know what to do with her. She is ADD as well. She is very good at her job (works for an airline and LOVES fare rules and codes and what they mean and don't mean) but she can't do very emotional conversations. She was NEVER a soccer mom - she taught me a lot of independence even though she is NOT independent - (aka hey mama, will you come to my soccer game? Nah lovetheduns, soccer isn't my interest. It's yours).

I have a former barn mate (I have a horse) who her adopted daughter from China is severely autistic. Pretty much non-verbal - will want to watch the same YouTube video over and over for hours, sometimes messes up her pants at school (she is in the 9th grade).

My mom and this kid are legions apart.

I actually looked in a past thread about flu vaccines.  The anti-vaxxer kept citing some magical source that refuted the entire medical community about the ineffectiveness of flu vaccines.  I kept quoting his own source that refuted his argument but he kept ignoring it.  I just kept imagining a kid wearing tinfoil covering his ears screaming "do the research and think for yourself man".  I eventually stopped trying to argue with stupid.

Just posted about my mom who is 66.

Back then, they just thought you were odd.

My mom doesn't read social cues, she wants to interact but she doesn't read social situations well at all. She doesn't connect well with emotions (I could be telling my mom about something that utterly devastated me and she will all of a sudden ask me if I saw the cat across the street walking to his house). She never liked playing with kids she wanted to just be alone. She has a hard time concentrating on anything except whatever is her interest. She would and still does engage in certain behaviors that are super repetitive (the list making makes me insane). She is great at her job (she works for an airline and is super fascinated by DOT rules, fare codes and rules) she works in reservations with elite passengers and they tend to like her- she is efficient and does not engage in small talk unless they somehow bring up a cat.

I knew of sn older man at church who was similar to her except his obsession was ham radios and audio equipment. Another one was the son of a couple who was a few years younger than my mom. Same type of thing - very polite but folks like him and my mom were just seen as odd and ignored. The last guy I spoke about never progressed past having a job at a movie theater but the audio guy was an audio engineer and my mom somehow fell into her airline job that matched her abilities.

So I am not really sure if it is because more kids are autistic now or if people are just wanting to try snd "fix" the odd and different kids but folks on the spectrum definitely existed before.

You are definitely on the Spectrum.    Don’t worry, you can still live a kick ass life.

Having to put people into only two boxes "tarded" and "not-tarded", puts a person on the spectrum of idiocy.