April is Autism Awareness Month – or as it’s been rebranded, Autism Acceptance Month.
Every year this time, public health officials, the media, and some autism organizations tell us how autism should be celebrated and embraced – how it’s a condition more akin to a quirk than a lifelong disability, one for which a growing number of diagnoses is a sign of “inclusivity.”
Blaxill, chief financial officer of the Holland Center, a private autism treatment center, is the father of an autistic adult daughter. After his daughter’s diagnosis, Blaxill began studying the causes of autism. His research led him to publish “Denial” and several scientific papers on autism.
Blaxill criticized attempts to normalize autism and claims that increases in autism diagnoses are simply due to improvements in detection.
He said public health agencies have repeatedly lied about the causes of autism, and he warned of a “coming tsunami” of autism caregiving, as the autistic children of the 1990s onward become adults and lose their parents, who are often their caretakers.