This is the most complete analysis I have seen so far on trying to understand the evolution of ACTUAL prevalence of autism using a standard definition over time (not diagnoses of varying definitions)
Surprise surprise, the curve looks largely flat
https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/whats-the-deal-with-autism-rates
Surprise surprise, the curve looks largely flat
https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/whats-the-deal-with-autism-rates
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It’s rather like all other aspects of humanity that Polite Society wants to hide and certainly not discuss Openly - and then there was ‘Funding’
a) I find it fascinating how financial factors may pushed the level of diagnoses
b) The fact that the evolution is largely flat means that any increase will be minor ... but not impossible: So it's not a proof that no environmental factor plays a role
i belongs to an association helping autists and, outside of heavy autists, there are so many forms in the autism-like spectrum
we receive women who realized they were "different" after 20 years old at the occasion of a specific stress (death in family, loss of job,...).
same when you dig in the families. you find many individuals who lived a "normal" life but had strange personality that is in fact belonging to the autist spectruml
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1915644130820006385