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I have a hypothesis: autism prevalence is up because of the “back to sleep” campaign, which babies hate because it massively decreases sleep quality. This reduc
by dd36 6y ago
I have a hypothesis: autism prevalence is up because of the “back to sleep” campaign, which babies hate because it massively decreases sleep quality. This reduced sleep quality adversely affects brain development.
- h0l0cube 6y agoI didn't know prevalence to be up, or that an increase in prevalence could be easily disentangled from better diagnosis due to increased awareness of autism. Do you have data on this increase?