Myth: autism rates are rising! Fact: what we call "autism" has changed so much in the last few decades that you can't really compare rates
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The reality is that the main increase in the rate of autism has been widening the diagnostic criteria to include more people, rather than any true increase in rates
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You could just as easily say that rates of pathological homosexuality have plummeted since it was removed as a psychiatric diagnosis, makes about as much sense
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Um...have you seen the outrage from the DVLA?
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I do not know what the DVLA is
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They just think that because they have offended and hurt so many autistics and we are answering back with facts. And now we are refuting the antivax they dont like it.
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... and here we see
@forrestmaready doing deep epidemiological research on twitter. After he's already written a book on it...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Also let’s not ignore the ostensible ableism in the tweet. Beyond them being utterly clueless referring to autistic people or a rising incidence of autism as “disgusting” is still highly offensive.
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