1970 war Autismus selten: weniger als 1 von 10.000 Kindern. Heute sind es 1 von jeweils 31. Wir schulden es unseren Kindern, herauszufinden, warum.
Von Orangutan
1970 war Autismus selten: weniger als 1 von 10.000 Kindern. Heute sind es 1 von jeweils 31. Wir schulden es unseren Kindern, herauszufinden, warum.
Von Orangutan
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*diagnosis of autism.
Who knows actual rates in either time.
Also, the use of institutions has changed over the years. As well as how we treat these types of things.
Pre 2000s, a lot of people were just told to deal their problems and that the world wouldn’t change for you.
It’s similar to how shell shock slowly became PTSD and something people actually took and treated seriously.
In 1970 autism was a rare DIAGNOSIS. It was often diagnosed as something else. Only severe cases got that label and understanding the spectrum was unheard of. We have more cases because more people are being properly diagnosed. Kennedy, like so many, want simple answers to complicated problems and ignore or misrepresent things that disagree with their opinion.
Er, they weren’t diagnosed properly in the 70s?
Today I learned that diseases don’t exist until you define them!
Left-handednes was at 4% in 1900 and 12% in 1960, where it stayed till now. Why?
I mean, yea. **gestures broadly around Reddit**
My brother was officially diagnosed. My family did not acknowledge the diagnosis for fear of stigma and they did not tell anyone.
Did you get it?
For your information, our parents were negligent when it came to health, so most of my siblings and I did not receive most of our vaccinations.
The word “Autism” doesn’t appear until the DSM-3 in 1980. The general public wouldn’t be familiar with the word autism until 1989 at Oscars with Rain Man.
I know a whole bunch of adults that should be diagnosed. The tantrums grown people have in public is proof enough of the amount on the spectrum. 🙃
After seeing how many old people have odd hobbies like stamp collecting, trains, cars, or need their favorite sofa chair, I think there was a lot more undiagnosed people on the spectrum back then.
I know a shit ton of boomers who I’d be shocked to learn that didn’t have a tism of any kind.
Well when people rather defend Big Pharma as a form of social virtue, we won’t ever get to the bottom of it.
Don’t trust the “science.”
Remember in the ’70s where psychiatrists would treat people with insuline injections so theyd go into medical induced comma so they would behave?
Yeah the ’70s isnt the best place to look for good mental medical practices
I think there’s always been autistic people it’s just that now they know much better ways of identifying it.
On the other hand, there were 1 in 3000 people with lobotomies in 1970s and now there are almost none.
The term autism was first used in 1911. In 1925 the first study was published. In 1943 and 1944 additional studies were published. More studies in the 1960s.
In the 1980s they began to redefine how they define autism. It wasn’t rare, it just wasn’t defined how we define it now.
There are people that haven’t even been diagnosed because that haven’t gone to be evaluated. It has nothing to do with vaccines.
There millions of seniors that have autism that have had it since they were kids.
Could it be from all the micro plastics in our food supply? I read they cross into the placenta through the mother’s blood and are also found in sperm. We are being poisoned.
Born in 1975 and realize as more time passes, and I get wiser, and more mature, that my ADD has a tremendous overlap with autism. My life would have been a lot less of a struggle if I had gotten the coping skills when I was younger.
We are just more aware now and still learning.
The definition of autism has changed
Probably because people before 1970 didn’t know shit from Shinola.
Yeah stop drinking and eating all this poison in our food or wait more McDonald’s please hahahahaha
Low iq argument
I’d argue in 1970, understanding of autism was low. Folks probably didn’t understand it as well and thus weren’t checking for it.
I liken it to anything else over time. Like, concussions in sports.
More and better testing? As a Great man once said “we’d have fewer cases if we stopped testing”
uhh. it didnt magically appear, we just used to call them the recluse that plays with trains
It’s almost like as we learn what autism is and how it’s diagnosed… it’s almost like… there’s more people diagnosed with it…. I don’t know…. Kind of an insane thought………….
Because they’ve gotten better at diagnosing autism. Just because it was rare in 1970 doesn’t mean it was any less prevalent, it just means it wasn’t being diagnosed and doctors weren’t as savvy in diagnosing.
Also, autisn is recognized as a spectrum disorder, so prior diagnosis tools were only capable of detecting more extreme cases.