| Not many people know the most important facts | | | | inheritance from the parents of the sufferer based on |
| about autism. This article looks at a few statistical | | | | certain results obtained from various researches that |
| facts about autism in the United States. | | | | have been carried out. |
| 1 - It is believed that more than half a million children in | | | | 5 - Other environmental factors that are believed to |
| the United States now live with autism or autism | | | | influence the incidence of autism and autism-spectrum |
| spectrum disorders, with the numbers actually closer to | | | | disorders are vaccines, toxic chemicals, infectious |
| six hundred thousand. | | | | agents in drugs or some foods, prenatal exposure to |
| 2 - Autism and similar related disorders occur four | | | | certain drugs, pollutants and food agents. However, |
| times as much in boys as they do in girls, but when | | | | there aren't a lot of scientific results to draw these |
| they happen to girls the condition is a lot more severe. | | | | conclusions from. |
| 3 - There is a set of symptoms on the autism | | | | They are not flattering, these autism statistics, but they |
| spectrum that happen to girls only - the Rett's | | | | are necessary to reveal the truth about the disorder |
| syndrome. It is considered one of the most severe | | | | and the diseases that are related to it. Even if |
| because it often results in the death of the patient due | | | | research is inconclusive, you can still watch out for |
| to respiratory complications. | | | | these things and try to see that you are not too |
| 4 - Autism is believed to have a link to genetic | | | | exposed to them for the sake of your unborn children. |