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Autism Boom: An Epidemic Of Disease Or Of Discovery?

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NEWSAutism Boom: An Epidemic Of Disease Or Of Discovery? Autism rates have increased twentyfold in a generation, stirring parents' deepest fears and prompting a search for answers. But what if the upsurge is not what it appears to be?

ph Gutierrez, 13, peeks into his kitchen window in Sanger, Calif. He has been diagnosed as mentally retarded, but his mother thinks he is autistic. (Francine Orr /Los Angeles Times) By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times First of four parts Amber Dias couldn't be sure what was wrong with her little boy. Chase was a bright, loving 2 1/2-year-old. But he didn't talk much and rarely responded to his own name. He hated crowds and had a strange fascination with the underside of the family tractor. Searching the Internet, Amber found stories about other children like Chase — on websites devoted to autism. “He wasn't the kid rocking in the corner, but it was just enough to scare me,†recalled Dias, who lives with her husband and three children on a dairy farm in the Central Valley town of Kingsburg. She took Chase to a psychologist in Los Angeles, who said the boy indeed had autism and urged the family to seek immediate treatment. But a team at the Fresno agency that arranges state-funded services for autism said Chase didn't have the disorder. His problems, staff members said, were nothing more than common developmental delays that he would eventually outgrow. Unconvinced, Dias imagined the worst — that Chase would never have a girlfriend, a job, a place of his own. She pressed the agency to reconsider and hinted at a lawsuit. Finally, officials relented, and her son began receiving 40 hours a week of one-on-one behaviorial therapy. A generation ago, society most likely would not have intervened in the life of a boy like Chase. Today, milder cases such as his are helping to fuel

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