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My guess: older parents + environment. Granted people are having children later in life but that doesn't account for the increase in cases (Better detection and
by onetimemanytime 7y ago
My guess: older parents + environment. Granted people are having children later in life but that doesn't account for the increase in cases (Better detection and incentives in funding to label kids autistic is another possibility.) So something is now in the air, food or water supply that is making these changes. Maybe older parents are more prone to this?
- faceplanted 7y agoThe scientific consensus is that it's the better detection and also that many places have started diagnosing things as autism that were previously diagnosed as something else, there's not been any real evidence yet that it's actually more common in anything but diagnosis.