Autism and the Homeless Epidemic

Posted by $ Abaco 2 years, 10 months ago to Culture
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I'll let you google that yourself. But, for some time now I have been saying that a major component to the nation's homeless epidemic is the autism epidemic. Just had a conversation last night with a local, politically-involved lady friend of mine who called this out before I brought it up. Looks like this concept is getting realized by others now. Ever speak to homeless people? We try to avoid it. But, as a father of an autistic kid and one who knows many autistic kids...I have. And, almost immediately the link looks obvious to me. Same speech patterns. Same lack of eye contact. Same OCD-like fixations. I'll say it here nice and clear. I believe that the autism epidemic is feeding the homeless population in a big way. For years you've heard, "Oh, it's just more diagnosis." Bullshit. Bull...shit. The cases of autism have increased, apparently, exponentially. (I've graphed it). Let me tell you...When these young men (almost all male) reach late teens/early 20s in age the families can no longer take care of them. They are hitting the streets. At the same time - the ratio of women to men in universities is reportedly 60/40 now. No alarm bells going off? This is it, I think. This is "America's chickens coming home to roost". Let's see if this encourages a re-evalation of things. (I won't hold my breath). They'll just load the general population prisons with these hapless young men. Let em get raped and assaulted there. That's good for government and the prison guard unions. This (as my lady friend said so accurately last night) is a massive human rights violation. Can a nation, can western civiliation survive this? I don't think so, myself.... My graph matches what I heard an MIT mathematician say...Of the children born in 2033, half will get autism. 85% of the boys will get it. This sounds nuts. And...I hope it's wrong. When I saw that stat mentioned in a documentary I watched with my wife I said, "We won't be here for that. We'll leave before that happens."

I want to be wrong on all of this. Let's hope that I'm wrong. But...I think the young men of America are under assault. From the stuff in the food, to the stuff in the 36 vaccines foisted on them by age 2, to the confusing transgernderism they've encouraging in government schools and the "drag queen storytime" being held at libraries near you. Governments, from the Federal level to the local, seem woefully flat-footed on the homeless problem. No accountability. Zero measurable success. Let's see how this pans out...


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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 2 years, 10 months ago
    The homeless issue here in Phoenix and around where I work has grown exponentially over the last few years. The climate here has always lent itself to the homeless, but what I'm seeing now are hoards (5 to 20) of drug addicts and pushers, at bus stops, behind businesses and in vacant homes/building, and people who aren't in their right mind.

    Cops are useless. Our security called the cops (2 miles away) to tell them a group of druggies broke through a plywood barrier to enter a store which is up for rent. The dispatcher asked if it was our store and blew us off.

    The US, perhaps the world, has both feet in the shitter and the refuse is up to our chin. Once again, I'm glad I'm on the downside of the life's hill .
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  • Posted by mhubb 2 years, 10 months ago
    most of the homeless have mental illness and/or drug issues

    this is a manufactured crisis, made by politicians to reap profit on all the money to be spent to fix a problem they created on purpose

    Tucker Carlson went into this one night
    all the millions being spent with little safeguards as to where it is going

    ask Deblasio's wife on how to loose money...
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    • Posted by $ 2 years, 10 months ago
      But, I actually started to wonder why there are so many young, able-bodied men with mental illness. I know it's easy to say "mental illness" and "drugs" in a dismissive way. I used to think along those lines. Then, it hit me as I'm trying to raise a son with autism. I looked at him. Looked out in the camps and intersections...started making contact with some of the regular homeless in our area....and I went, "holy shit!" I think I was starting to try to piece some of this together when I started coaching 8-year old boys soccer. Of 12 kids on our team, 10 were functionally mentally deficient. And...this was a normal, mainstream soccer team. Not the special olympics...(I shouldn't laugh). How would one tie a mental illness outbreak to something being manufactured by politicians on purpose? Sorry if I sound naive.

      What I'm realizing is that if I'm right about this there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that the homeless problem won't overwealm the nation, and sooner than we would anticipate.
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      • Posted by mhubb 2 years, 9 months ago
        i am NOT dismissing this

        this was created by politicians to steal from We the People

        it has already destroyed several major cities, most in California
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        • Posted by $ 2 years, 9 months ago
          No, I realize you're not dismissing it. I have trouble wrapping my head around the logic. Is it possible that they would poison kids to purposely screw up the west and throw it into squalor and chaos? This is the implication here, right? And...I'm not dismissing that, either. Just, wow. That's a doosy. Hope there's another explanation. May not be...

          California is in complete pandemonium with the homeless problem. It looks like "Dawn of the Dead" there now. Horrific...
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 2 years, 10 months ago
    Okay. This is it. I am convinced. We are the ones who are out of touch and don't understand what is happening. And we never will. Gotta be crazy to think up stuff like this. Don't we?
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    • Posted by $ 2 years, 10 months ago
      I know it all sounds nuts. Haha... I received a call from an appointed official who was involved in a study for Yolo County in California. Realize that California is ground zero on the homeless problem. I imagine many other parts of the nation have almost no homeless. Anyway, it was found in that study that a huge portion of the homeless population studied was on the spectrum. I forget the figure but I think it was around 35-40%. Yeah...this IS crazy stuff. But, why are there so many crazies? California seems to have them everywhere. Then there are the camps with hoardes of these people living in tents in the mud. Just nuts. When you look at this population of homeless....I'm struck at how many are young, able-bodied men.
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