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March 21st, 2016 
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
Autistica, an independent charity founded in the UK by a mother whose child suffers from autism, is calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to act on “shocking new data [that] has revealed people with autism are being left to die decades earlier than the typical population.”
John Spiers, president of Autistica, said in a press release : “We cannot accept a situation where many autistic people will never see their 40th birthday.”
James Cusack, an autism researcher for Autistica, wrote in an op-ed piece about the “reality… that autistic people are dying far too young. For those with autism and intellectual disability, who form the majority of people with autism, the average age of death is a staggering 30 years lower than the general population. To me, this demonstrates the challenges which many autistic adults face in their daily life and our failure as a society to meet the needs of the autistic population.”
According to the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, there is a link to autism and a short lifespan; including an alarmingly high rate of suicide. The researchers have found that people suffering from the neuro-developmental disorder die 12 to 30 years earlier than people in their age group who do not have autism.
By analyzing data from more than 27,000 autistic adults, and information on an excess of 2.5 million people who do not have autism, the researchers discovered that on the average, person with autism die 18 years younger than their counterparts.
The researchers explained: “On an average, individuals with autism and a learning disability died about 30 years earlier, while the participants with intellectual impairment died just 12 years earlier, the researchers found. The mortality trends were similar for both males and females, as per the study. However, autistic females with learning disabilities were with the highest risk of premature death among any of the subgroups.”
Considering that nearly “40% of people with autism also suffer from epilepsy” and have to adhere to “a more restricted diet, limited access to exercise and increased use of medication” are factors in why autistic sufferers are committing suicide.
In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) have questioned why the number of cases of autism in children ages 3 to 17 has climbed by 80% over the last 3 years, and the answer to their question is interesting.
Participants in the study numbered slightly above 11,000. Parents were asked about their children and if they’d been previously diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), or Asperger’s syndrome.
In the end, only 45 children, or 2% of those surveyed, had a child previously diagnosed with autism. And nearly 80 children, or 1.25% of the participating parents, revealed that their children had been diagnosed with autism via previous surveys.
ASD is a catch-all diagnosis for children who are suspected of having social behavior disorders, language disabilities and various other problems that get joined together under the blanket term autism.
From 2001 to 2014, it has been surmised that the rise of autism reflects 1 in 68 children; a number that has caused alarms to go off with school officials, resource health systems and public health agencies.
Benjamin Zablotsky, epidemiologist for NCHS, said that “in previous years some parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder likely reported it as a developmental disability instead of or in addition to autism because it was listed first.”
As the questionnaires changed and the criteria for what constitutes ASD has expanded, more children are being diagnosed with the disease.
Shockingly, by changing the questions to parents, and how the questions are structured, resulted in a considerable spike in ASD diagnosis that has confounded parents and doctors alike.
Michael Rosanoff, director of public health research for Autism Speaks, explained that an estimated “2% of children in the US are living with autism”; however this is reflective of those children who are lucky enough to be diagnosed.
The change in definition of autism resulting in copious amounts of new cases is a well-documented phenomenon.
Back in July of this year, Penn State University (PSU) researchers published a study showing shows that this increase is due to the psychiatric community adding more symptoms to the list of criteria for ASD while still not knowing exactly what causes it.
In fact, it is this shifting perspective of what ASD actually is has directly contributed to the increase in children who have it.
PSU states that there has been an estimated 65% increase in ASD diagnosis; as well as reclassification of previous symptoms that are now considered indicative of autism.
Because of reclassification of symptoms, nearly 60% of 9 year old children in America are now considered autistic.
To see how standards have changed, in a 1990s study out of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) of nearly 500 children living in Utah in the 1980s, 108 children were considered “challenged” which would translate by today’s psychiatric standards as “intellectually disabled”.
Ironically the diagnosis of intellectually disabled has dropped dramatically while the incidents of autism has steadily climbed to incredible heights.
More telling is how if today’s diagnostic standards are applied to the 108 “intellectually disabled children”, 64 of them would be considered autistic.
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