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If they could read or do comparisonal analysis or could formulate higher-functional abstraction in their frontal lobes, this would really make them think.
Assuming the data is true (doubt it because of fucking beef jerky man), it's not so much that autism is on the rise so much that autism rates are being diagnosed more and autism is less stigmatized than it was previously.
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The source is "I made it the fuck up!"
Also ignoring improvements in diagnostics.
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It looks nepotism put a failson in charge of this graph.
Can anyone decipher the graph for me?
When they collected the data in 2000, about seven 8 year olds out of 1000 had autism. Those children were born in 1992.
When they collected the data in 2002, about six 8 year olds out of 1000 had autism. Those children were born in 1994. This information was not labelled on the x axis.
When they collected the data in 2004, about eight 8 year olds out of 1000 had autism. Those children were born in 1996.
When they collected the data in 2006, about six 8 year olds out of 1000 had autism. Those children were born in 1998. This information was not labelled on the x axis.
When they collected the data in 2008, about eleven 8 year olds out of 1000 had autism. Those children were born in 2000.
... I'm too lazy to continue but ...
When they collected the data in 2020, about twenty seven 8 year olds out of 1000 had autism. Those children were born in 2012.
When they collected the data in 2022, about thirty two 8 year olds out of 1000 had autism. Those children were born in 2014. This information was not labelled on the x axis.
I'm not positive i'm reading it right, but that's what I think they were trying to convey with this (terribly labeled) graph.
eta: yeah, rereading the subtitle, those numbers and years make sense
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10 out of a 1000 to 30ish out of a 1000 doesn’t even seem like a massive increase, especially if it’s really due to something like a pain medication that is taken by a huge population. Which it’s not as it’s more related to improvements in diagnosing.
I guess they are just hoping people see bar go up and therefore bad.
you know, everest was still there before it was discovered.
Everest wasn't murdered before it was 5 years old.
What's wrong with the x-Axis?
Main problem is that its not really an axis at all.
Maybe what's important is the axis we made along the way
if you look at it for 1s it looks scary (if you're afraid of autism ig). if you look at it for 2s it doesn't make any fucking sense like, at all
Autism diagnosis rates. Quite a difference.
Well, get out of here with your logic and reason...
Remember Covid, don't report on things = they stop existing.
The axis makes sense with the label, they just didn't label every data point.
Guarantee you the people afraid of autism has no idea what it even is, other than "bad"
There's a vast number of conservative parents who have said they would support abortion in cases of fetal abnormalities like "autism" because they're not pro-life or informed about anything, they're just scared. They're scared of hardships, they're scared of emotional labor, they're scared of the social stigmas around having to care for someone with special needs, they're scared they won't love a child who isn't normal, and will be judged for it.
It's not possible to diagnose an autism until the age of about four or five at the earliest so I'm not sure how they're planning to do that
Not autism rates, detection rates is what's up, more kids are growing up with adequate helps and therapies so they can grow to be functional adults.
Too add to that there are more types of autism. It's a spectrum.
Yes, trains autism, boats autism, Math autism... /j
No but for real, no two autistic individuals are ever the same.
Adequate helps and terapies - repression and psychological abuse. Great. We are functional adults, fuck you.
Uuuhhhhhh, I'm an autistic adult who can somehow function because I had heaps of help growing up, many of my friends weren't that lucky and have a hard time just existing.
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It is the same story as gay infecting children's minds.
They are selling awareness as something to be afraid of. Which is yet another layer od evil.
Not only that, but they wish really hard for us to be their tiny little scapegoats, when probably most of the autistic community hates them.
- Autism is a spectrum., same as gender ideology. Whether you like it or not, it's true.
- We're better at diagnosis
- Preconceived notions about such things aren't as prevalent, until recently for political reasons
They're basically banking on people still thinking, autism is "intellectual disability, but quirkier and more difficult", while I have met "more severe" cases who did not had the ID part, they just were lucky to avoid the diagnosis for long, and thus people didn't pretend they're "too dumb to even learn to count to 10".
I'm a woman in my 40s who is probably autistic, but back then I was the wrong demographic and "too well behaved" to even consider diagnosis. I'm a typical example people think of when thinking about under diagnosis.
On the other hand, I work with people who have severe learning disabilities who also evaded diagnosis, or were diagnosed well into adulthood as diagnosis is difficult in someone so impaired. In another time, they would have been labelled with a grossly offensive term and just left. Better treatment of disabled people is probably another reason we see rising rates of diagnosis.
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Will this administration release data on the impact of fossil emissions on diseases like asthma?
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Diagnosis has improved and perhaps been used too soon in some cases. Its always been here but environmental changes of some kind have increased it slightly. Most likely medical culprit is NSAIDs. Not trumps scapegoat of the moment. The other brand was however shown to cause people to lose empathy with sustained use in some studies.
In other news, visibility bias has been classified as communist propaganda. Anyone who says this isn't representative of an actual increase in the incidence rate is a communist and can safely be ignored.
OK there are not 2 bars per year. 2nd last is 2020, last 2022.
It's not clear why everyone is mad at the chart. It does show an increase. Though, this is about autism diagnoseses, which can be influenced by kickback bribes for diagnoseses.
There is a sharper (exponential) increase since 2012, even though pharma corruption solutions existed many years before then, afaik. Some explanation for the acceleration is needed. Its not tylenol or any new vaccines.
My diagnosis is in that spike. I got diagnosed late because it took that long to get away from my autism denying parent and enough time living on my own to start wondering about my "weird habits", especially after starting to meet others "like me".
It stopped being a disability in my mind and started being more like a superpower, and eventually out was just who I was and y'all can just deal with it. Of course I leaned boundaries and social graces because we live in a society, but how I view myself and other people definitely changed
So I think it has a lot to do with how this generation and previous ones changed how they handle autism.
Autism diagnosis is can also be increased by just better recognition of the disease. You think anyone was going around giving out autism diagnosis in the 90s come on.
An increase in diagnosis rates does not indicate an underlying increase in the condition.
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Who's gonna make all the technology, music, art, etc, after we've finally cured autism? We might have to start re-autisming people.
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.
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That line of best fit doesn't even match the data. How can it start above the data and then finish above the data but still be line of best fit. Not that that's the only problem with this graph of course.
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