Yes, I am serious, I think it is good to try and figure out why a childhood disease has increased by an order of magnitude in one generation. You don't, I take it?
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Hell yeah, brother.
I was referencing to the autism graphic that was going around that claimed that being autistic cost an extra $60k a year, but also I hope you get to buy all the botanical LEGO sets that get released while we yanks get the “Nintendo preorder” treatment from LEGO.
If the US fucks this up so bad that the Switch2 gets released everywhere BUT here then I hope to see a whole lot of pictures from folks in other countries rubbing it in.
The increases in autism are an order of magnitude higher than this, and show no signs of stopping their exponential climb, for the last 60 years. And it's a wee bit easier to hide being left handed than being profoundly autistic.
It's super easy to hide being mildly autistic though.
So easy that several of my friends ended up getting diagnosed with it in their 30s. And your chart is not orders of magnitudes higher than the left handed one, because we still aren't even at 10% of children born every year.
Autism isn't a disease, increased rates of autism observed in children are most likely due to increased awareness and screenings and reductions in other diagnoses like intellectual disabilities due to more accurate assessments.
Fascinating how people who know nothing post as if they do.
Autism is not a disease.
The rate of autism has not "increased by an order of magnitude," but it is simply more recognized. The diagnosis criteria changed, so it is more likely to be diagnosed.
it hasn't increased by an order of magnitude, dumbass, it was always around and we just know how to identify it now. personally if I were you I wouldn't advertise to the world that my brain is this feeble but I guess I'm built different
I can answer this for you right now: knowledge and testing got better over 50 years which is a long time. You think grandpa who spent 23 horse a day building train sets or uncle with the room full of stamps was neurotypical? Come on.
Is the rate of left-handed people currently increasing exponentially? Is being left-handed potentially a debilitating condition that requires lifelong Care with daily function? Just trying to understand your analogy.
In the early 20th century we stopped forcing people to use their right hand and after that yes cases of left handedness "increased exponentially" but why might that be, let's see if you can work through that
For context,in my 2d grade class in 1961-62 teacher read a resolution from the school board that lefties would no longer be required to use their right hand.I went home & asked the 2d grader version of wtf?That was the watershed year;after that we got left alone.Modify the desks,though?Forget it.
If I thought you were arguing in good faith, I'd expound further.
However, for the sake of wild hope, go look at a chart of left handedness in the the world over the last 100yrs. If you want to get what we're saying.
It’s not “increasing” exponentially.
And the vaccine myth has been debunked in multiple studies, the doctor who first published it has lost his medical license for fraud. He made millions from his fake study.
What exponent? Based on this dataset (https://www.cdc.gov/autism/data-research/index.html) it looks like an increase over time but nowhere near the geometrical progression you described. Can you clarify? Thanks!
Yeah, so if I still can't find my keys after 3 days of looking in the the shoebox at the bottom of my closet, when my boss calls me to know if I'm coming to work I can say honestly that I haven't found my keys yet but I'll keep looking in the shoebox cause, you know, at least I'm looking, right?
Maybe the issue of exponential increases in neurological conditions in children (not just autism) and what's causing them is more important than how bad a certain politician is or isn't. Just me.
I also think the issue of increasing neurological conditions in children is more important than whether a specific social media platform is or isn't bad.
There is no "exponential increases" you fucking muppet, just as there wasn't some magical spike in left handed people once that was no longer stigmatized.
Autism isn't a sickness or a disease to be cured. It's just what some people are.
You got a lot of people telling you why you’re wrong on the epidemiology. But let me also say that you’re a credulous fool to reduce this to “a certain politician.” Would you send cops to solve the mystery of racial bias? Trump to solve sexual assault?
Of course, it's better screening. It's also a massive broadening of the definition of autism. The definition has been changed 3 or 4 times. You can easily look up the huge drop in diagnoses in non-autistic childhood intellectual issues.
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I was referencing to the autism graphic that was going around that claimed that being autistic cost an extra $60k a year, but also I hope you get to buy all the botanical LEGO sets that get released while we yanks get the “Nintendo preorder” treatment from LEGO.
it's fuckin' politics.
So easy that several of my friends ended up getting diagnosed with it in their 30s. And your chart is not orders of magnitudes higher than the left handed one, because we still aren't even at 10% of children born every year.
Fascinating how people who know nothing post as if they do.
The rate of autism has not "increased by an order of magnitude," but it is simply more recognized. The diagnosis criteria changed, so it is more likely to be diagnosed.
Did you think that
However, for the sake of wild hope, go look at a chart of left handedness in the the world over the last 100yrs. If you want to get what we're saying.
And the vaccine myth has been debunked in multiple studies, the doctor who first published it has lost his medical license for fraud. He made millions from his fake study.
Autism isn't a sickness or a disease to be cured. It's just what some people are.