I am an aspie. I take a great deal of pride in this, as well as a great deal of worry. Our neighbors to the north have their own way of dealing with autistics called Applied Behavioral Analysis. This is a prefered way of dealing with autistics and has seen progress with a great many. Sadly, it doesn't work for everyone and many are left to find other ways of helping their kids. Because of socialized healthcare in Canada this is the only means avaible for advancing (I hate the word cure) their autistics and helping them grow. So what happens to the others? Either they live close enough to the U.S./Canada border that they can go for a different kindof therapy (which is obviously extremely expensive) or they just make do. So my question to you is what happens if the U.S. converts to a socialized health care system and decides to do this?
http://www.rogercollier.com/clipping.feature.28.autism.reconsidered.html bit of information there about this, its hard to gather too much information though. Most of what i have gotten has been person to person.