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Autism@lemmy.world · 21 days ago

Are there more autistic people now?

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Are there more autistic people now?

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Autism@lemmy.world · 21 days ago

Why is the number of autism diagnoses changing? And what does it mean for autistic people?

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My grandfather died at 60 in 1990. Everyone who ever met the guy universally agrees he was autistic as fuck.

But he was employable, had a wife, six kids and wasn’t uncommunicative so at the time he wasn’t considered as such at all

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