Autism Rate Increase Reported, Likely From Better Testing
This was interesting. I had been talking with my mother about my early development and she had mentioned because of her fever during my pregnancy, I had been diagnosed as autistic. I did remember a camp I had been in WI was I was about 5 which had other developmentally challenged kids.
Never thought I had been diagnosed as autistic though.
I had had some trouble with school work before being taken under the wing of a magnificent English teacher--Mrs. Mitchell-- in 1975 who saw something special in me and prodded me to challenge myself. This was a teacher at Wooster HS in Reno, NV. who also gave me a small Scholarship in the name of her recently deceased daughter, Michelle.
I graduated from the U of Nevada Reno with Distinction with two B.A.s.