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Mainstream media coverage of autism has increasingly normalized the condition, its prevalence and its symptoms while ignoring the future costs of treating and housing people with autism as their caregivers age and die.
In some cases, the media focus on the need to treat the exploding numbers — 1 in 36 — of children with autism as a “market opportunity.”
Polly Tommey joined “The Defender In-Depth” this week to discuss these issues and what increasing numbers of people are doing to respond to the coming “autism tsunami.”
Tommey, a filmmaker, founder and editor-in-chief of The Autism File and founder of the Autism Trust, is the program director of CHD.TV.
She discussed how increasing numbers of parents are teaming up to develop communities where their adult autistic children can receive care for the rest of their lives.
Tommey also said she believes more and more expectant parents are choosing home births over hospitals, in the face of mounting evidence that the childhood vaccine schedule may be a factor in the soaring number of children being diagnosed with autism.
Tommey warned that if something doesn’t change, society will face a dual tsunami going forward: the need for housing for adults with autism and the growing number of autistic children exhibiting new and more severe symptoms, which Tommey attributed to the expanding childhood vaccine schedule…
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