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this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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Why did it dip around 1910? Did they stop collecting data for those years or something?
There used to be a stigma against left-handed people, so a lot of lefties would hide the fact that they were left-handed. This isn't really a history of how many people are left-handed, but rather a history of how many people are openly left-handed.
Stigmatized to the point that left handed kids were forced to learn to write with their right hand, including physical punishment from teachers if they were caught using their left hand. Not just voluntarily hidden, but actively suppressed.
We have pretty good evidence that this is due to historic under diagnosis, expanding the definition of Autism, and improved and increased testing parameters. In other words, the actual rate hasn't increased, we just detect it more often than we used to.
This 100%. More diagnoses doesn't necessarily mean an increase due to some nefarious cause - no matter how much the antivax loonies want that to be true.
For sake of argument: even if vaccines have some non-zero percent chance of triggering autism, their argument is basically that it is better to die than to get autism.
I do not believe that vaccines cause autism, this is purely a hypothetical.
Yeah they have a really fucked-up way of looking at autism. There are tons of autistic people out there living great lives and contributing a hell of a lot more to society than many of these antivax ghouls.
Nope it's definitely vaccines and toothpaste in the drinkin water
No they fucking haven’t. They were always there. We’re just better at picking up on neurodivergence these days.
Gotta prep people for the "answer to autism" they're announcing in September...
They need more Vitamin A and Cod Liver Oil, that will fix it.
-RFK, Jr.
I bet some corporation is sitting on a report that says their product is causing this. My bet is that it is Monsanto and the pesticides they put on our food.
Traditional diagnosis rate was 1 in 45 for boys and 1/4 of that for girls. So wow.