TheGuySwann on Nostr: There's at least 3 huge factors that prove this hand waving excuse to be nonsense. 1. ...
There's at least 3 huge factors that prove this hand waving excuse to be nonsense.
1. Where are all the incredibly autistic old people? Shouldn't at least SOME elderly been properly diagnosed if literally an order of magnitude more had "slipped through the cracks?" You don't grow out of autism. If that explain literally anything we'd *at least* have twice the number of 50 year olds diagnosed after realizing the mistake. But instead that number is virtually zero. When the comparison to the younger generations is an order of magnitude.
2. The history of psychological disorders is pretty detailed. And there is a roughly even ratio between men and women getting mental disorders for as far back as we can go. But autism affects boys at 4x the rate as girls. And right in line with this chart, the mental disorder comparison between girls and boys takes the exact same divergence.
3. Autism isn't some "hard to find" issue. It's extremely debilitating and completely changes the nature of living with and dealing with that person. Nobody has a seriously autistic child and just thinks "yeah he's a little weird but no biggie." So please show any data from anywhere, by anyone that shows the enormous diagnosis of some other disorder, that got changed to "autism" at a rate of 1 in 36 for any generation in the past 40 years.
None of these basic things can be squared. With respect, there is zero logic or evidential support for this blanket claim, and mountains of evidence to suggest its nonsense.
I'm sorry, but any medical professional who gives you this excuse and hand waves this away should not be trusted in the slightest, imo.
1. Where are all the incredibly autistic old people? Shouldn't at least SOME elderly been properly diagnosed if literally an order of magnitude more had "slipped through the cracks?" You don't grow out of autism. If that explain literally anything we'd *at least* have twice the number of 50 year olds diagnosed after realizing the mistake. But instead that number is virtually zero. When the comparison to the younger generations is an order of magnitude.
2. The history of psychological disorders is pretty detailed. And there is a roughly even ratio between men and women getting mental disorders for as far back as we can go. But autism affects boys at 4x the rate as girls. And right in line with this chart, the mental disorder comparison between girls and boys takes the exact same divergence.
3. Autism isn't some "hard to find" issue. It's extremely debilitating and completely changes the nature of living with and dealing with that person. Nobody has a seriously autistic child and just thinks "yeah he's a little weird but no biggie." So please show any data from anywhere, by anyone that shows the enormous diagnosis of some other disorder, that got changed to "autism" at a rate of 1 in 36 for any generation in the past 40 years.
None of these basic things can be squared. With respect, there is zero logic or evidential support for this blanket claim, and mountains of evidence to suggest its nonsense.
I'm sorry, but any medical professional who gives you this excuse and hand waves this away should not be trusted in the slightest, imo.