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I can’t comment much on this as I am not any expert on the topic. But I’m still waiting for someone who will come up with a vaccination conspiracy.
would like to see this chart next to avg age of parents over time...
That's one of the leading hypotheses, right? Particularly for dads, I think.
My grandfather had a perfectly normal daughter at age 73. I think it’s more on the mothers side
I honestly have no clue lol
You're not going to get it from me. Although, I did hear about a civil case that actually did find that a kid likely did get autism as a result of vaccination.
This might be the case I had heard about: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-to-receive-15m-plus-in-first-ever-vaccine-autism-court-award/
The answer is more diagnosis. Whether they are correct or not...
I don't think that's the entire answer, but it's part of it. The allusion to possibly rampant overdiagnosis really interests me. Autism seems to have become something of a fad diagnosis for adults to hide behind.
Autism, as an illness, has no existence without diagnosis. Take away the financial incentives it offers, and I suspect you will find "actual cases" drop acutely.
That doesn't sound right. I've definitely met people who clearly meet the colloquial use of "autistic".
How does what I've said preclude those cases?
Autism, as an illness, has no existence without diagnosis.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your point, here. There are plenty of people who struggle with something that we all call "autism".
They present the symptoms. Whether they have it is another matter.
Ok, that doesn't seem like a particularly important distinction. It's entirely possible they "have it" and we just haven't developed the right approach for clearly identifying it in the body.
I know you can't prove a negative, but saying definitively that it "has no existence without diagnosis" seems too strong. However, "has no known existence without diagnosis" would be fine as far as I know.
The lack of interest in why this is happening is pretty shocking.