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Scoobes said:
Teeqoz said:


That's how many children per thousand are diagnosed with autism. As you can see, there's a more than 200% increase since 2000. Now I don't know why that is, but it has to be something.

You may want to check how the diagnosis of autism has changed over the years.

Plus, as with anything like this, link?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_autism

I figured the "definition" of autism would've changed, thus causing more people to be diagnosed with it. However it seems odd to me that It'd account for such a massive increase, but as I said, it has to be something. Or maybe I'm wrong, and that all of the increase is caused by changes in definition of autism. It may be some of the other thiousands of chemicals that have been taken into daily use in the past decades, but writing this all off as just a change in diagnostics is kinda reckless imo.