The apparent rise in autistic people in the last 40 years

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I’m curious as to the seeming rise of autistic humans in the last decades.

Is it that it was just not understood and therefore not diagnosed/reported?

Are there environmental or even societal factors that have corresponded to this increase in cases?

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Turns out you can fly pretty dang under the radar as a person mildly on the spectrum.

A lot of people were considered “A bit odd”, but no one considered that might be because of autism.

Most I’ve heard consider it very unlikely that environmental or societal factors have made an increase in cases, but rather an increase in diagnoses and reportings like you say.

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