Eh, give it a few years. Autism is all the rage now, but pretty soon some new diagnosis will be fashionable and Autism will fall by the wayside.

Autism trifecta in play.

jaylectricity: davidphogan: Autism trifecta in play.

Yup...but this isn't like the old Fark where somebody would accept the challenge...and damn if I'm gonna do it because I can't get a green to save my life anymore. Not even during the great greening of the Sopa whiteout.

I usually get greenlights when I submit a crappy article with a misleading headline. Or if I insult the Chargers.

I'm a good driver.

So, just what does it cost to become a licensed Autist in the great state of Virginia?

I was very surprised it wasn't California or UK!!

xl5150: Eh, give it a few years. Autism is all the rage now, but pretty soon some new diagnosis will be fashionable and Autism will fall by the wayside.

True dat. Everything from slight social awkwardness to always going to need a diaper is called autism these days.

Another fark trolling headline. I'm gonna save this in my scrapbook. They are so rare.
Subby's reading comprehension is closer to Down's syndrome than autism.
And no, it's not bad enough if someone's child is autistic.

And that is why I renamed my Autistic kid 'Eric' once he was diagnosed.

If I had an autistic child I'd get them a T-shirt that said "Keep on rockin'!"

They should just give you the license when you take your kid in for their vaccinations.

I have a license to potatoe.

So people are finally realizing that this was mainly just a scam by Big Pharma, eh?

FirstNationalBastard: After that Autistic kid in Virginia got lost for nearly a week, I don't see why they don't have those RFID Dog tracker chips put in Autistic kids.

I have an autistic pitbull. I let it roam the neighborhood. It's not the breed. It's me.

xl5150: Eh, give it a few years. Autism is all the rage now, but pretty soon some new diagnosis will be fashionable and Autism will fall by the wayside.

"Diagnosis of the Week".

farking psychologists.

Thomas "Tag" Greason's HB 1106 directs the state to develop licensing regulations within 280 of its enactment

Within 280 whats? C'mon, I'm hanging here.

xl5150: Eh, give it a few years. Autism Austin is all the rage now, but pretty soon some new diagnosis city will be fashionable and Autism Austin will fall by the wayside.

evaned: Thomas "Tag" Greason's HB 1106 directs the state to develop licensing regulations within 280 of its enactment

Within 280 whats? C'mon, I'm hanging here.

hogsheads.

FirstNationalBastard: After that Autistic kid in Virginia got lost for nearly a week, I don't see why they don't have those RFID Dog tracker chips put in Autistic kids.

It would probably more effective to just tattoo the name and address on their ar...oh! nevermind.

Farktards breeding farktards to create an entire society of farktards who will one day be slaughtered by motherfarkers who don't play pretentious bullshyte games.

Autistic kids are one of the most violent breeds of children, responsible for more maulings and bites than all other breeds combined.

Hmmm, a bit over 100k births per year in Virginia, 1:150 odds of autism spectrum disorder = ~666 (ha ha) autistic kids per year. The program requires the spending over a four year period, ages 2-6, so 2664 expected claims per year at likely $35k a pop (like they will leave money on the table, my friend's kid goes to a special school which cost $80k/year) = just shy of a hundred million dollars. Okay, who's paying?

/it would be 4-5 billion if done nationally for 2-6 year olds

Humean_Nature: You FINALLY need a license to have kids? I've been advocating --

*reads article*

Nevermind. Good job Virginia, or whatever.

Subby was taking autistic license with the headline.

fusillade762: So people are finally realizing that this was mainly just a scam by Big Pharma, eh?

Keeping repeating this won't make it true. There aren't any drugs for autism.

Mock26: Autistic kids are one of the most violent breeds of children, responsible for more maulings and bites than all other breeds combined.

Autistic children aren't any more violent than other breeds of children, they just have bad parents.

Mock26: Autistic kids are one of the most violent breeds of children, responsible for more maulings and bites than all other breeds combined.

not true
just don't touch the purple crayon

/seriously
//don't touch it

"Or perhaps you're referring to my license to kill. Revoked - problems at the Kazakhstan border. I'd give you the details, but then I'd have to kill you... which I can't do because my license to kill has been revoked. "

/License to autism, never suspended
//Are you paying too much for your autism insurance?

Now I feel guilty. Worked with a girl with an autistic son. How she held it all together , I'll never know. Sorry Lisa.

fusillade762: So people are finally realizing that this was mainly just a scam by Big Pharma, eh?

The sad part is that I'm not sure whether or not you're trolling.

Loren: fusillade762: So people are finally realizing that this was mainly just a scam by Big Pharma, eh?

Keeping repeating this won't make it true. There aren't any drugs for autism.

But there are a million homeopathic remedies. My friend's autistic son does Chelation once a month too. He also takes all kinds of 'medicines' that they mix into his food. Seriously, you know how old people take a pile of pills every day? Like that.

fecal fornications: Mock26: Autistic kids are one of the most violent breeds of children, responsible for more maulings and bites than all other breeds combined.

not true
just don't touch the purple crayon

/seriously
//don't touch it

No, that is no joke. The kid I mentioned previously has this thing (for a few years now) that if he sees another child cry he will pummel the crying child until he/she stops crying. He is 9 and very strong. He has injured (broken noses, wrist..) many kids because of this. To make matters or so much better, he is now taking karate lessons.... to improve his discipline.

xl5150: Eh, give it a few years. Autism is all the rage now, but pretty soon some new diagnosis will be fashionable and Autism will fall by the wayside.

CSB: ... My kid is autistic (as in, full blown Rain-Man still non-verbal @ 8 years old autistic). Well, we're broke and he qualifies for SSI/Disability due to his condition. They requested a re-evaluation this year. I sent in a 2-inch thick packet with every report from every medical test ever run on him from vision screenings to 3 different pediatric neuropsycology full workups (the bulk of those 2 inches) ... Disability Determination Services came back and said it wasn't good enough. They wanted the entire histories from 8 different places that tested him for different things between ages 2 to present (8) within 14 days, and they sent them all letters. The sent me a 2nd letter saying they hadn't gotten the histories from those 8 people within 14 days and I needed to harass them to send the histories. Then another letter that lined him up for 3 different screenings (mental, speech, and something else) at whatever government-approved doctors do such things ... What I sent in was, by far, more than enough to convince anyone that the kid was not just socially awkward.

Long story less long, the government's Disability Determination sector is on to this bullshiat. They see the word "autism" and are immediately skeptical. The days of perfectly healthy yet socially awkward people mooching the government and playing WoW in their mom's basement are over. Good riddance. All these lazy assholes have completely tarnished the public's perception of the diagnosis and understanding of the limitations.

Loren: fusillade762: So people are finally realizing that this was mainly just a scam by Big Pharma, eh?

Keeping repeating this won't make it true. There aren't any drugs for autism.

Oops, my bad. I was thinking of ADD.

Sometimes there is not enough rocks.