The scientific consensus is that autism has increased due to better detection, awareness, and broadening of the criteria for who gets an autism diagnosis. This may look like a balloon, but it's actually just identifying autistic people who weren't identified before, and were considered just weird, quirky, engineers, "mentally retarded," etc. -
The scientific consensus is that autism has increased due to better detection, awareness, and broadening of the criteria for who gets an autism diagnosis. This may look like a balloon, but it's actually just identifying autistic people who weren't identified before, and were considered just weird, quirky, engineers, "mentally retarded," etc. -