could this be just a shift in how we measure and disagnose behaviors which lie outside the norm? not long ago this behavior was not tolerated at all, and an au

could this be just a shift in how we measure and disagnose behaviors which lie outside the norm? not long ago this behavior was not tolerated at all, and an autism diagnosis was undesirable. now we have more resources to identify and tolerate a broad range of behaviors probably autism has not grown - it is as high (or low) as it has ever been. maybe we can identify autistic behaviors in figure of the past; maybe our own relatives.