Almost a million children will be receiving health benefits by the end of the decade amid a surge in reported autism and ADHD cases among boys, official forecasts show.
The number of under-18s receiving Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is expected to hit 948,000 in 2028-29, according to figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) – double pre-pandemic levels and equal to around one in 14 children.
Is something that’s 1 in 14 a disability that must be paid/compensated for or is 1 in 14 just part of life’s rich variability so get on with it?
Sure, sure, as benefits for ADHD become available more are diagnoseed and all that. But we still do have this question. Losing the genetic lottery badly enough to have an IQ of 60 and no moral sense at all leaves nothing but politics – so probably wise that we do pay disability. But how common does it have to be for it to be normal?
I think we, via the medical profession, gave reached the point at which regulation of the psychiatric profession will have to be removed from the doctors. There’s a ridiculous amount of malpractice in the form of refusal to even follow scientific procedures and what looks like gross over diagnosis for political purposes
I saw an interesting suggestion elsewhere. Many neurodiverse self medicate with commonly available drugs. ADHD is paradoxically treated with stimulants. Nicotine is a stimulant. So, has the incidence of diagnosed ADHD gone up as the incidence of smoking has fallen?
If only we paid moar taxes! Then we could pay dumbo Frenchies as well!
Oh, I dunno. Perhaps there’s a bit too many of them…
If the opportunity to grift exists, people will grift.
Nicotine is also an appetite suppressant;
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367209/
So maybe the buggers are eating too much?
The best way to lure mice into the trap is with chocolate.
It’s quite amazing after 80 years of the wonderful world beating NHS the UK population’s general standard of physical and mental health has apparently never been worse
The best way to lure mice into the trap is with chocolate.
Peanut butter is also very good.
“It’s quite amazing after 80 years of the wonderful world beating NHS the UK population’s general standard of physical and mental health has apparently never been worse”
I don’t actually blame the NHS too much for this. Yes they have a role in it, but I place the majority of the blame on the benefit system that rewards people who neglect their health to the point that they are decreed ‘disabled’ and thus no longer required to work and qualify for free money. There is no incentive for a person who has been declared ‘disabled’ to ever get themselves right, and indeed every incentive get themselves declared disabled in the first place. Their life is paid for by everyone else, and their medical costs are zero. Ergo why should they do anything that jeopardises this situation?
A million young dole bludgers by 2030 eh?
Sounds like extrapolating a trend to me. Ignoring some (we hope) one off factors such as lockdowns, dodgy vaccines, loss of school routine, etc.
Mind you, the education profession will probably be even more feminised by then, so boys might be more and more alienated.
“has the incidence of diagnosed ADHD gone up as the incidence of smoking has fallen?”
No, not if the incidence has increased in pre-smoking age children.
Not necessarily. Weren’t we all told that second-hand smoke is killing everyone within a 3 mile radius of any smoker? So the smokers could have been curing their kids of ADHD, second-hand.
Of course you could suggest that jabbing young children with an ever increasing cocktail of various vaccines at a point in their lives when their brains are very much still developing might just have something to do with all this, but thats obviously stupid because reasons, so I won’t.
@Rupert – “regulation of the psychiatric profession will have to be removed from the doctors”
and given to who? Politicians? Are you ready for that level of competence?
@Starfish – “It’s quite amazing after 80 years of the wonderful world beating NHS the UK population’s general standard of physical and mental health has apparently never been worse”
Not really. In the absence of miraculous cures, if you turn very sick people into moderately sick people instead of dead people, then you’ll have a greater number of sick people merely because you wouldn’t count the dead as extremely sick.
@Jim – “Of course you could suggest that jabbing young children with an ever increasing cocktail of various vaccines at a point in their lives when their brains are very much still developing might just have something to do with all this”
You could suggest many things, and this is one of those which is a very stupid suggestion due to the lack of evidence (and not for lack of many crackpots searching very hard).
ROTF…..
What is it about paying people to demonstrate particular behaviours that causes them to demonstrate those behaviours?
Definitely a two pipe puzzle, anyone got Sherlock Holmes’ number?
“You could suggest many things, and this is one of those which is a very stupid suggestion due to the lack of evidence (and not for lack of many crackpots searching very hard).”
Hmm. C.4 years ago I’d have concurred, in the light of how the medical ‘profession’ has behaved with regard to covid vaccines I’m not so inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt any more.
The fact that the definition of the diagnosis has been stretched so far that “Neurodiverse” can mean anything, and include anyone not sitting firmly in the middle of several bell-curved metrics may have something to do with it…
Most “neurodiversity” is such that neither medication nor special remediation is necessary anyway.
Except that us “Neurodiverse” don’t fit very well into Modern Society as envisioned by the Socialists and Comptrollers, so Something Must Be Done.
Can’t have lippy individuals questioning the Rules…
he best way to lure mice into the trap is with chocolate
Peanut butter is also very good
Yes on both
@Jim
4 years ago I’d have concurred, in the light of how the medical ‘profession’ has behaved with regard to covid vaccines I’m not so inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt any more.
Have a look at other jabs: flu, measels, polio and more all in same fake vaccines category like covid – although not as dangerous, fatal
One item cannot be diverse, by definition. Diversity is the amount of difference between members of a set. If the set has only one member, it is impossible for their to be any diversity, it can only be compared to itself with which it is identical. 100% of the set is idential, that is zero diversity.
One item can be *DIFFERENT*, as that is, by defintion, comparing with not-this-item. But one item cannot be *diverse*.
Some further reading
Vaccines, autism and an epidemic of official lies
Autism rates have escalated from 1 in 10,000 in the 1970s to 1 in 36 today, according to 2024 figures released
I have a mate whose wife works for one of the big London PR firms.
She casually revealed at the weekend that they are retained, along with many others, on large fees to go around the internet arguing with people on behalf of Big Pharma.
Charles is probably a paid plant.
I was in favour of vaccines. Now I’m a committed anti vaxxer.
To say there is no evidence of vaccine harms far outstripping any benefit is one of the greatest lies ever told.
I recommend the books Turtles All The Way Down or JFK Jr’s The Real Anthony Fauci; the truth about vaccines and their lack of testing alone will astonish you.