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?
In: Biology
As others have said diagnosis is more common now but beyond that autism is also much, much more common. We don’t know all the reasons yet but mothers being exposed to BPA and PFAS is implicated in causing autism as a birth defect. ie. It’s most likely due to the increased use of plastics in the last fifty years.
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