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.

She has claimed that vaccines cause autism and that chelation therapy helped cure her son—claims considered false by the medical community. McCarthy then parlayed her Playboy fame into a television and film acting career. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year.