Snitz explains why more kids have autism. RFK is FOS!

Ok, it's true the number of little kids with Autism has been growing? Tylenol? Vaccines? Violent Marvel Comic Movies? No, no and no!

And shocker, more boys are out to lunch. Amazing, they don't like to be cooped up all day in school at a desk. Who would have guessed.

Of, course it's not so much that Autism is more frequent, it's that we are reclassifying what was previously diagnosed as an "intellectual disability" as Autism.

Why? Because there's insurance money available to treat Autism! As the Wall St Journal points out:

"The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990 added autism as a category for special-education services in schools. Services grew, as did a patchwork of insurance-coverage mandates in the 2000s, Penn’s Mandell said. Pediatricians and parents across the U.S. had more reason to offer or seek out a diagnosis, researchers said.

“There was a value to the diagnosis that didn’t exist before,” said Mandell, who is also a member of the Coalition of Autism Scientists. “Now, I have a kid in front of me, and they’re borderline, I might assign them the diagnosis because they’ll get the services I think they need.”

Who is getting an autism diagnosis is also shifting. Boys are still more likely than girls to get diagnosed, but that ratio has narrowed slightly, some researchers said. Black and Hispanic children now have similar or higher rates than white children."