I remember when my mum was filling out a form as part of the autism assessment, she was like "sounds a lot like my husband as well... And his dad"
I'm convinced my mom is on the spectrum and my grandparents
That's like saying we have more cancer now than in the past.
Sure, that might be true in certain scenarios (we're very good at creating new ways to give ourselves cancer).
The truth is that we're living longer, increasing the risk and likelihood of cancer, and we've gotten a LOT better at finding and diagnosing cancer and specific types.
Yeah Autism rates are going up in all groups because people are getting diagnoses. This is partly about better awareness but also partly about money - there is an incentive to expand the diagnosis, diagnose more people and treat more people, which somewhat muddies the water. Autistic Spectrum Disorder first appeared in the American DSM in 2012, unifying 5 existing conditions into one, and then it moved into the international ICD in 2018 (going live in 2022). It is no wonder awareness has gone up, and infrastructure for diagnosis has rolled out.
We're not seeing an increase in Autism, we're seeing an increase in the diagnosis of autism. This graph just shows how stupid and dumbed down the CDC and the White House is under this cretinous president.
It's probably more than just better diagnosis.
"Advanced Parental Age" has a significant body of work behind it, and people are having kids quite a bit older than they used to, because... you know... gestures broadly at how fucked up the world is
Absolute nonsense graph. Buckle up, this shit is going to get way worse.
Guarantee you the people afraid of autism has no idea what it even is, other than "bad"
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The axis makes sense with the label, they just didn't label every data point.
For some reason, that doesn't look like a GPT-generated graph, which means... sadly... that someone had to make that thing.... and somebody had to approve it.
What do you bet it's not even based on real data and it's just some random rectangles that they drew.
I believe the data through 2016, but the last 3 bars are faked. The increase per bin is 5 higher than the previous.
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