Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
JENNY MCCARTHYWhat is missing from today’s dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
More Jenny McCarthy Quotes
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Obviously, I’m not a trained actress, and right now I’ll come out and say I’m glad I’m not.
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I usually have my protein at lunch and my carbs at night – I don’t mix protein and carbs.
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If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we’d rather have the measles versus autism, we’d sign up for the measles.
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I didn’t have to work out before 35 but now I have to.
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When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I’m really into eggs Benedict in the morning.
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Kids will not listen to that. They’re going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.
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A talk show is difficult because the formula is always the same: there’s a host and there’s guests. Really what you can change is only so much. So, I don’t have any pre-interviews, which forces real conversation.
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Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.
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Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we’re all dying because we look up something on Google. But there’s also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.
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All those girls who were mean to me[in high school], I pay them back by going through the drive-through window and asking for my burger. That feels really great.
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People are also dying from vaccinations. Evan, my son, died in front of me for two minutes. You ask any mother in the autism community if we’ll take the flu, the measles, over autism and day of the week. I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids.
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I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don’t know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.
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It’s absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.
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Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they’ll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they’ll run for the door. They know better.
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I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don’t become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.
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