I have been awake for over two and a half hours, and I was watching the early morning news programs in between watching FNC’s “Red Eye”. I was caught offguard of a news flash about autism.   It’s basically a fill in story on what appears to be a slow newsday, I am not surprised, but at least there is traction for a change as we lead into April’s Autism Awareness Month.
I’ll post video later this morning, but here’s a few blurbs from a CBS wire story,

” One out of 88 children in the U.S. has an autism spectrum disorder, according to the latest estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Previously the CDC estimated autism’s prevalence at about an average of 1 in 110 U.S. children. The new estimate suggests autism is more common than previously thought – about 25 percent more common – and may affect more than one million children and teens in the U.S.
“One thing the data tells us with certainty – there are many children and families who need help,” CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a written statement. “We must continue to track autism spectrum disorders because this is the information communities need to guide improvements in services to help children.”
For the CDC’s study, researchers looked at autism prevalence estimates from 14 areas in the country. Since every state is not included, the CDC warned the rate “should not be generalized to the United States as a whole.” But the data do show that autism diagnoses continue to increase. It’s published in the March 29 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Boys are still about five times more likely to be diagnosed with autism in the U.S. than girls, according to the CDC report. It estimated one in 54 boys have autism, while one in 252 girls do. The number of children identified with ASDs ranged from 1 in 210 children in Alabama to 1 in 47 children in Utah. The largest increases were among Hispanic and black children.
Some of this increase may be due to the way children are identified, diagnosed and served in their communities, although exactly how much is due to these factors is unknown, the CDC said.
Study results from the 2008 surveillance year show more than 11 out of 1,000 8-year-old kids have been identified as having an ASD, about a 23 percent increase since the last CDC report in 2009. Some of this increase is due to the way children are identified, diagnosed and served in their communities, although exactly how much is due to these factors is unknown. “

CBSNEWS.com
In the middle of a paragraph, I love how many of the MSM is playing the gender card, by focusing on the higher number in boys. As I have previously reported the MSM loves to focus on that because it’s reversed-sexism by indirectly referring to boys as stupid, etc.