Fun fact about autism: given current trends, by 2032 one in two Americans will be diagnosed as autistic (80% of all boys). This observation was made by MIT Pro

Fun fact about autism: given current trends, by 2032 one in two Americans will be diagnosed as autistic (80% of all boys). This observation was made by MIT Professor Stephanie Seneff: http://weeksmd.com/2015/12/18170/ http://weeksmd.com/2015/12/18170/ It's hard to agree which such a claim (exponentials typically become sigmoids, right?), but it is certainly interesting to think about. > The risk for autism for a child born today is one in 25 at least. This is not a genetic disorder. This is an environmental disorder. I would go one step further: this is a manmade disorder. A lot of sources suggest that autism is genetic. This explanation logically fails for the simple reason that such an exponential increase over the last 40 years is not possible for a genetic condition - it can't all have occurred at once. Are you telling me that autistic people, who are typically severely impaired in how they function in society, were able to breed and pass on a genetic condition at such a high rate in such a short time? From 1975 to 2015, the autistic population has exploded in orders of magnitude from ~60,000 to ~6 million. Two percent of the population. Perhaps it's all because of under-diagnosis of the past. Various types of mental retardation may now be classified as autism. But was two percent of the population always a victim of some form of mental retardation? This is somewhat of a silent epidemic (when's the last time you heard about it in the mainstream media?) and we need to figure out what's going on.