Dr. Toby Rogers: Autistic adults and the "fiscal cliff that is coming"
Dr. Toby Rogers
The moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, Kristen Welker, discussed autism with Donald Trump on Sunday, December 8th.
Twice in a three minute segment of the interview, Welker denied autism is a problem. She said, “They say they’re better at identifying it.”
Later she said again, “Scientists say that’s because they’ve gotten better at identifying it.”
Always in denial
Of course Welker never bothered to explain why the numbers keep increasing; clearly she won’t be worried when they do. (See details of autism increases over the past 20 years at the bottom of this article.)
For people living in the real world, these numbers are having a huge impact on families and school systems.
As far as the mainstream media is concerned, autism is a normal and acceptable part of childhood today, something to be celebrated as neurodiversity every April.
The press is only too happy to give doctors credit for each stunning increase in the rate every couple of years, calling it just more BETTER DIAGNOSING.
All this denial and acceptance of autism is vital for those who need to cover up the evidence linking the explosion in the autism rate to the dramatic increase in the vaccine schedule after Big Pharma got the U.S. government to give them liability protection back in 1986.
Of course any reasonable person would ask: When is the autism rate going to stop increasing?
Can the increases go on and on until one in every two U.S. children has autism? Will every American eventually be on the spectrum?
Something that needs to be part of the health care focus in the new Trump administration has got to be the future for Americans with autism.
The billion dollar questions: Who will care for all the autistic adults that are coming? How will we pay for them?
Currently health officials continue to pretend that autism is nothing new; kids have always had autism at whatever this current rate is. Somehow they’ll grow into adulthood and go where autistic adults have always gone. So there’s no problem.
The truth is, the autism rate is based on studies of eight year olds, not eighty year olds.
No one has ever been able to show us the hidden horde of middle aged and elderly adults on the spectrum, but officials assure us that they’re out there. (And I don’t mean the entertainers and athletes who regularly show up in the news with their newfound diagnoses. I mean the 50, 60 and 70 year olds who are head banging, nonverbal, and still in diapers.)
The truth about autism
One of the truly outstanding advocates in the autism community is political economist, Dr. Toby Rogers. I have long admired his dedication to exposing the economic tsunami that is approaching our shores because of what autism is doing to children.
Back in August, 2024, Rogers made this Instagram video on the COST OF AUTISM. He is an important voice out there making these predictions about what’s coming when the children with autism become the adults with autism, dependent on the taxpayers of America for their support and care.
In this two minute talk, Rogers makes it clear that the cost of autism will bankrupt our country, and he gives us evidence that autism is linked to vaccines.
Aug 30, 2024
The costs of autism over the next 20 years are going to shift from parents onto government.
So the parents of the 1986 generation, this first large wave of autism families in the United States, they’re getting older, right?
They’re going to start retiring in the 2030s and 2040s, and then they’re going to begin to die, average life expectancy being what it is.
And so when that happens, hundreds of billions of dollars that are currently borne by parents are going to shift onto government. And that’s what we map in our study.
And the biggest one is housing costs. So parents right now are providing housing for children but also adults with autism, but as these parents die, these adults with autism are going to need somewhere to live, and all those costs are going to shift on to government.
That’s the conversation we need to be having right now, about the fiscal cliff that’s coming when all these parents of the 1986 generation pass away.
But I want to raise another point which is, there’s this very important wrinkle in the data.
Cynthia Nevison is the expert on autism prevalence in California; she’s mapped it over the past 20 years.
And what she found was from birth year 2000 to birth year 2013, the autism rate in Marin County, California to wealthy white and Asian parents plateaued and then declined.
That’s never happened before in the history of the autism. We’ve never seen a decline in the autism rate, but it happened in Marin County California from birth years 2000 to 2013.
Extremely interesting.
Now it’s also a fact that vaccination rates declined in that population over that time period because parents were worried about safety. They were worried about too many shots on the schedule.
And so, wealthy white and Asian parents in Marin County, California stopped vaccinating.
Now it could have been something else. It could have been they were eating blueberries and kale from the famers’ market. I don’t know. We should look into it.
But the CDC never looks into this matter, which is a massive poker tell. That they know exactly what’s going on, and they don’t want to investigate it.
At the same time, autism rates are exploding in Los Angeles, San Diego, across the state. It was exploding in poor communities, black communities, Latino communities, but this one county was different.
Here’s more on the incidence of autism in Marin County, CA.
And I would make one correction to what Dr. Rogers predicts for the future of autism. In truth, we won’t have to wait for parents to die off before the state feels the impact of the autism epidemic.
Eleven years ago I wrote this for Age of Autism: Heartbreaking Story: Adult Son with Autism Left to State .
It was about parents in Canada who regrettably had to turn the care of their severely autistic adult son over to social services in Ottawa because they simply could no longer care for him, and he was a danger to himself and to the parents.
I can’t see many people in their 70s, 80s and 90s, often with their own health issues, caring for profoundly disabled adult children with autism. I personally know so many aging parents right now who are at a crossroads.
It is my hope that with Trump putting dedicated, honest people in charge of our health care agencies, we’ll stop the cover-up. Americans have to wake up to the nightmare that is autism.
I’ve said for a long time that the people in charge will ignore the CAUSE OF AUTISM until the COST OF AUTISM threatens to destroy us economically. That day will be here soon.
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Here’s what’s been happening to autism over the last 20 years. All of these dramatic increases have been met with only mild interest and never alarm from health officials.
Asperger’s Syndrome or mild autism was added to the DSM in 1994, 30 years ago, and it was removed in 2013. It is now considered part of the broader Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis.
In 2002 the rate was one in every 250 children.
In 2004 it was one in 166 children, one in 102 boys.
In 2007 it was one in 150 children, one in 92 boys.
In 2009 it was one in 110 children, one in 68 boys.
In 2012 it was one in 88 children, one in 54 boys.
In 2014 it was one in 68 children, one in 42 boys.
In 2018 it was one in 59 children, one in 36 boys.
In 2020 it was one in 54 children, one in 33 boys.
In 2021 it was one in 44 children, one in 27 boys.
In 2023 it is one in 36 children, one in 22 boys.
In California, it is in 22 children, one in 14 boys
In Florida, it is almost one in 20 children, one in 12 boys.
Reports from other places are truly shocking.
In British Columbia, it is one in 29 children, one in 18 boys.
In Australia, it is one in 25 children, one in 17 boys.
In Scotland, it is one in 23, one in 15 boys.
In Ireland, it is one in 21 children, one in 13 boys.
In Northern Ireland, it is one in 20 children, one in 12 boys
YOUR THOUGHTS?
I talked with a 40--year-old woman who has two children, both with autism. They
are verbal, very sweet but will never be able to live independently.
This damage to an entire generation really messes the social order of cargiving up. Instead of the usual order of adult children helping their parents later in life, the government will have to take on these costs, besides the costs of the autistic adult children.
We can see how inept the government has been
with the typical housing shortage now, so can't imagine the colossal flub that will spiral into a national crisis.
I have one adult child who has a vaccine injury, cerebellar ataxia, which has greatly effected her balance and coordination. She also cannot do normal activities like drive a car, cut an apple, write, etc. It's degenerative so she is using a wheelchair more and more. She was born in 1981 so I doubt she would have lived through the Childhood Vaccine Schedule of today.
We will never know the human potential of the millions of babies that were poisoned who will not live to their full potential. It's a crime against humanity.
There has NOT been explosive growth in other areas of special education. The rate of blindness, hearing loss and physical handicapped has remained the same over several generations. No one ever mentions this.