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About 25% of kids with autism are nonverbal, not toilet trained, and exhibit stereotypical behaviors, and this population is growing. While many individuals with autism are doing well, the speaker focuses on this specific group with severe disabilities.
The media promotes the idea that increased autism rates are due to better recognition or changing diagnostic criteria, but studies disprove this. In 2013, the California legislature asked the Mind Institute at UC Davis to investigate whether the rise in autism is real or due to increased awareness. The Mind Institute concluded it is a real epidemic.
The speaker argues that this epidemic is unique to children, as full-blown autism (nonverbal, non-toilet trained) is rarely seen in older adults. While the speaker has encountered people with Asperger's or on the spectrum who are their age, they have never seen an older individual with full-blown autism, despite its prevalence in children, affecting one in twenty boys, and in California, one in 12.5 boys.