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Shannon Rosa
Sep. 7, 2025, evening

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. -

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