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Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway
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I think it’s birth cohorts
I think it's just the number of diagnoses made in that particular year. But it doesn't matter because we know this graph is made up anyway. It's a Trump administration putting it out, I bet not one of them knows how to get excel to output a bar chart, so instead it's just random rectangles they've drawn.
I mean there is scientifically a rise in autism diagnoses, but it’s like explained by awareness and decreased criteria to qualify as being on the spectrum - not by an increase in actual autism.