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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If I was in school now, and I behaved like I did back in the 90s, I would be diagnosed with autism. However in the 90s, nobody gave a shit, I was just an annoying, weird kid. 

Autism has always been there, we just didn’t used to care.

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