by John Jones, JD, PhD, The Tenpenny Report:
In January 2023, the CDC presented its 2018 survey of autism among eight-year-old American children. The most recent numbers show 1 in 54 kids have autism, nearly triple from 2002, when the number was 1 in 160. Amongst the autistic, the authors held that while the numbers of low functioning had doubled, the proportion in the average and above average IQ is five times greater than in 2002.
But do not be fooled. They grouped the IQ ranges of the children into three categories: