https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kenvue-kimberly-clark-acquisiti...
We're gonna have people saying Tylenol causes Autism/ADHD for at least another 5 years.
There are a lot of things that it could be that changed to bring more autism in society. It could also be a multi-generational affect of things started close to a century ago. We have a lot of food that isn't anything someone a couple hundred years ago would consider "food"... highly processed, industrialized, refined, etc. The fact is, we largely don't know, and a lot of affects are individualized.
Changes in the diagnostic criteria and increased screening at wellness visits seem to be the main contributors. There have been a few studies over the past two years that have looked at a specific subgroup of individuals on the spectrum who frequently need 24-hour-a-day support and care from a caregiver, often have very limited verbal communication skills, or have intellectual disability that co-occurs with autism.
The data has shown that rates of autism for that subgroup have increased minimally, if at all, over the past nearly 10 years.
~ Is There an Autism Epidemic?, John Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/is-there-an-autism-epidemi...Autism diagnoses are on the rise – but autism itself may not be
Autism is better known and diagnosed than ever before, leading to misconceptions that cases are skyrocketing.
~ BBC, 10th May, 2025: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250509-why-autism-diagn...
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