Thirty years ago we talked with census people and they seemed to think that the developmentally disabled population was about 3% of the general population.
Now the census people say that it looks more like 1.58%! Are we doing something right in safer childbirth practices? Whatever it is, this is good news to everyone.
My people at Hyperion got it a little wrong and have said in their catalog that 3 out of every 10 Americans has a mental disability. I have tried to correct them, and hope it won't come out that way in the catalog, but on the other hand, the more I think about it, maybe 3 out of every 10 Americans BEHAVE as if they're mentally disabled, especially perhaps in the halls of political power in Washington, so you don't know what statistics to use.
Ah well.....
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