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None of those people had autism

• gaze 2y ago
  citation needed
  • onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago
    Autism is first diagnosed in 1911 and Asperger's in 1944. It wasn't commonly diagnosed during any of these people's lives, so you're not going to find conclusive evidence. None of them were diagnosed (obviously not Newton). So you're only going to find people arguing over straws.
    • gaze 2y ago
      absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
      • onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago
        There is no strong evidence to go on. What are you arguing? They have Autism until proven otherwise? About 0.5% of people were diagnosed with Autism before 1990: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113600/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113600/ If we're making assumptions, statistically, we'd probably want to assume the other way.