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It is very scary to me that in the 22 years since I began graduate school, the rate of autism has increased dramatically from 1 on 5,000 children to the latest figures from the CDC for 2007 are 1 in 150. I am done having children now (I think) but my kids are going to start having children soon and the odds are very frightening.
There have been a lot of guesses and a lot of research on why the rate of autism is skyrocketing, but from everything I have read, the answer still continues to be "No one knows".
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At our reservation school we are seeing more and more kids with autism. When I first started working I had never hard of it but now everyone knows what autism is and seems like everyone knows someone who has it.