"Mental hospitals have largely been emptied over 
the last four decades, but the remaining 
population probably includes about 5,000 people 
with undiagnosed autism, said David Mandell, a 
psychiatric epidemiologist who led the Norristown study.

Many more are thought to be in prisons, homeless 
shelters and wherever else social misfits are clustered.

But evidence suggests the vast majority are not 
segregated from society ­ they are hiding in 
plain sight. Most will probably never be 
identified, but a picture of their lives is 
starting to emerge from those who have been."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/autism/la-me-autism-day-four-html,0,6403471.htmlstory 



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