In the early 1990s, the diagnostic criteria for autism were broadened. Subsequent to that, screening programs were implemented in schools. Here's a hint: If you don't look for something, you will find a lot less of it. If you look harder for something, you will find more of it.1/ https://twitter.com/AQuantumCat1/status/1399982466790793221 …
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Several studies looking at this have come to different conclusions https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021018081039.htm … https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2009/01000/The_Rise_in_Autism_and_the_Role_of_Age_at.16.aspx … There are undoubtedly cases where autism develops in the womb likely due to immune activation and its apparent from very early life but if this is the case for..
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Beyond this, much of the narrative of “epidemic” is deeply ableist and offensive! It mirrors horrific eugenics movements of the last and the gay-moral-panic of the 1980s-1990s as more young people came out. It’s grotesquely offensive.
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As someone who is on the spectrum, and who comes from a family with many ND folks, there are seriously problematic assumptions made in all of these studies about how inaccessible diagnosis / childhood mental health is in this country outside of urban areas / school systems.
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I’m curious then, what was the number for 4 decades of children w/o language, stimming, self injurious, no emotional affect? This severity of Autism would not have been unnoticed. What was their diagnosis if not Autism?
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A few comments: 1) Many were diagnosed with “mental retardation.” 2) Studies on stimming (aka stereotypy) do not reveal it to be unique to ASD. 3) Studies on
#selfinjury show it is largely a learned behavior.
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I'm autistic and wasn't diagnosed until adulthood even though I went to special needs schools. I also wasn't vaccinated because my mum was into homeopathic nonsense. I had measles instead. My 70+ mum now won't get her Covid vaccine and I'm very glad I got both doses of Pfizer
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Cultural contributors: 1) 1987, Rain Man released and introduces “autism” to millions; 2) 1993 best seller Let Me Hear Your Voice by Catherine Maurice released; 3) 1994 Asperger Disorder introduced to DSM IV.
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