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In Minnesota, the Somali immigrants allegedly never saw autism until they came here, and they get a lot of it now. They call it the "Minnesota Disease". I als
by cowardlydragon 10y ago
In Minnesota, the Somali immigrants allegedly never saw autism until they came here, and they get a lot of it now.
They call it the "Minnesota Disease".
I also once read that Cable television penetration rates were correlated with autism as well...
- klodolph 10y agoWell, to be perfectly fair, we never "saw" it before 1943, either. I'm not trying to be flippant, our society is set up in a way to diagnose cases of autism, and it is reasonable to suspect that the increased rates of diagnosis are not all caused by increased rates of the condition.
- hbk1966 10y agoI read somewhere a while back that said that the reason for rising autism rates in the 90's/00's was because we broadened the definition of autism.
- gohrt 10y agoThere's also a lot of denial of autism in the Somali immigrant community, with traditional supernatural explanations of autistic behaviors.