Have you ever given any thought to the fact that someone is always trying to control your thoughts. They like us to worry. Worry sells newspapers, media advertising, gives the local tv "news" something to say is a "breaking story".
And have you ever noticed it's almost always bad news. As if we don't have enough of that already people find ways to change the rules to have something else to worry about. Radon? Lead based paint? Asteroids? Social Security? Every week there is a new definition of some dilemma that effects you and I.
Recently the medical profession changed the definition of Autism. Now Autism is a serious disease and every parents nightmare, just the thing that people want to jerk with to scare the hell out of unsuspecting people.
If I understand this correctly under the old guidelines approximately 1 in every 2,500 births produced a child with Autistic symptoms, but by the new definition that rate is now considered to be 1 in every 150 births. That is a tremendous worry to place on couples about to become parents.
Now I'm not the brightest guy in the world but this topic got me to thinking, if this new definition is true that means the odds are fairly good that one of you reading this is Autistic. I wonder which person it is? Again, I'm not making a joke out of Autism, what I am making a joke out of is how the public buys into things so easily without question.
If today you were expecting a child I think you'd ask a lot of questions. Maybe we all need to question things more.
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