Well the cure is clearly to stop testing.
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Instances of autism have skyrocketed since the discovery of autism and effective testing for it.
Clearly these tests are causing the autism. It's a conspiracy by Big Autist to make the world a quieter and more curious place. The railway companies are in on it too.
I think you just predicted the next South Park plot.
Synopsis:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reveals that Tylenol causes autism, he then wants to open a bottle of it, but fails miserably. Then Eric Cartman gets on the stage talking about the evils of autism, then he shows he was bitten by an autistic girl he "played with", but the security footage he shows about the meltdown reveals he terribly bullied her, so people will immediately feel sorry for the girl instead.
Kyle manages to open a bottle of Tylenol, not knowing it summons cenobite-like autists from a different dimension, supposedly turning the people who summon them into autists. The others, save for Cartman, manage to find the same autistic girl bullied by Cartman who can also open that bottle summoning the other-worldly autists, who then be convinced by the boys to take them to the autism-world. Said autism-world is mainly designed around the needs of autistic people. After some shenanigans, there comes the reveal that Kyle was always autistic, the autism-cenobites don't turn anyone into autists as Tylenol bottles can only be opened by other autists, he just was very good at masking, wants to go back to his own world even if there would be people who will bully him for what he is.
Meanwhile, Cartman goes on an "Autism Awareness Tour" to "promote remedies", but tanks them the moment he shows the footage.
Autism tests cause autism, got it, let's roll boys, we have more science to ban
maybe that's why they were elected lol
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Didn't we used to hide it?
Yes. This is an artifact of a destigmatization coupled with better diagnostics for evaluating ASD. More people aren't autistic, more people are being diagnosed and receiving counseling for coping with the neurldivergence in a cold and uncaring neurotypical world.
I remember when my mum was filling out a form as part of the autism assessment, she was like "sounds a lot like my husband as well... And his dad"
I'm convinced my mom is on the spectrum and my grandparents
....................... did they adjust the data points to go from lowest to highest
......so the chart go up?
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Each bar shows two years; years they surveyed the kids and the year the kids were born.
So 2000|1992, is saying that kids born in 1992 were surveyed in 2000. If you look at tmit with thtmat perspective you can see it's ordered by the year.
I guess we found the answer to "Is math invented or discovered?"
Bad Graph says: 0.75% of 8 year olds were diagnosed in 2000 versus 3.2% in 2020.
Correlation =/= causation.
How have the diagnostic criteria changed in 20 years? Autism was a stigma when I was in high school in 2000, now it's a spectrum. Are there routine screenings at pediatricians now?
Number go up, but what else go up simultaneously?
I hate it here.
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Can somebody smarter than me tell me what this is trying to say? There’s a bar for surveillance year and birth year. But, for instance, 2012 is on the graph twice with different values. What does it mean?
It's no longer number go up good season.
2012 appears once as a birth year and once as a surveillance year. The graph says that they only ever surveyed 8-year-olds, since the birth year is always 8 less than the surveillance year.
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They were told to make a graph that increases and that's what they did.
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Number of unvaxxed kids also growing in the past 22 years. I think it proves that autism is caused by lack of vaccine.
Absolute nonsense graph. Buckle up, this shit is going to get way worse.
r/DataIsBlursed
There is an 𝑥 axis and it's not too hard to comprehend, although I'd prefer the dividing character to be newline rather than "|", or only show the surveillance year.
Also, the "trendline" is sus.
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Military spending also increased from 2000-2022, ergo military spending causes autism.
Yeah Autism rates are going up in all groups because people are getting diagnoses. This is partly about better awareness but also partly about money - there is an incentive to expand the diagnosis, diagnose more people and treat more people, which somewhat muddies the water. Autistic Spectrum Disorder first appeared in the American DSM in 2012, unifying 5 existing conditions into one, and then it moved into the international ICD in 2018 (going live in 2022). It is no wonder awareness has gone up, and infrastructure for diagnosis has rolled out.
We're not seeing an increase in Autism, we're seeing an increase in the diagnosis of autism. This graph just shows how stupid and dumbed down the CDC and the White House is under this cretinous president.
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