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Autism in sentence

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This is just an excerpt from one of those letters: "My 12 year-old son has autism, and has had a terrible time with math.
In the United States, probably the most astonishing statistic is a 600 percent increase in autism and autistic spectrum disorders and other learning disabilities.
Well let's take a look at something like autism incidence per thousand.
So my journey in autism really started when I lived in a residential unit for adults with autism.
And for them, autism was devastating.
In fact, at the time, if you walked into a school for individuals with autism, you'd hear a lot of noise, plenty of commotion, actions, people doing things.
Well, now we know that autism is this disruption, the disruption of this resonance that I am telling you about.
We always think about autism as something that happens later on in life.
Well, this is a 15-month-old little girl, and she has autism.
Well, autism is the most strongly genetic condition of all developmental disorders.
We now know that there is a very broad spectrum of autism.
There are millions of individuals with autism all around us.
Those are individuals who did not benefit from early treatment, because now we know that autism creates itself as individuals diverge in that pathway of learning that I mentioned to you.
And yet, the median age of diagnosis in this country is still about five years, and in disadvantaged populations, the populations that don't have access to clinical services, rural populations, minorities, the age of diagnosis is later still, which is almost as if I were to tell you that we are condemning those communities to have individuals with autism whose condition is going to be more severe.
And we just can't afford that missed opportunity, because children with autism become adults with autism.
So this is our view of autism.
There are over a hundred genes that are associated with autism.
In fact, we believe there are going to be something between 300 and 600 genes associated with autism, and genetic anomalies, much more than just genes.
And we actually have a bit of a question here, because if there are so many different causes of autism, how do you go from those liabilities to the actual syndrome?
Because people like myself, when we walk into a playroom, we recognize a child as having autism.
And in fact, we are very interested in those first two years of life, because those liabilities don't necessarily convert into autism.
In this scan pass, in green here, are two-year-olds with autism.
What are the children with autism doing?
We didn't have to wait for the behaviors of autism to emerge in the second year of life.
And the idea is not to cure autism.
What we want is to make sure that those individuals with autism can be free from the devastating consequences that come with it at times, the profound intellectual disabilities, the lack of language, the profound, profound isolation.
We feel that individuals with autism, in fact, have a very special perspective on the world, and we need diversity.
We want that the next generations of individuals with autism will be able not only to express their strengths, but to fulfill their promise.
Nick has autism, very severe autism.
Now some of you here look a bit astonished by that number, but consider for a moment the incredible diversity of mental illnesses, from autism and intellectual disability in childhood, through to depression and anxiety, substance misuse and psychosis in adulthood, all the way through to dementia in old age, and I'm pretty sure that each and every one us present here today can think of at least one person, at least one person, who's affected by mental illness in our most intimate social networks.
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