People say, "Autism is on the rise" but as an autistic person I see a site like this and go, "No, autism was always with us, we just labelled it differently in the past".
I mean that lovingly.
xx__yy•3h ago
I was having roughly the same thought.
I thought to myself, this is something my son would produce, and I'd be super proud, and see through the 90's/Yahoo-ish style.
"Autism is on the rise" isn't necessarily incompatible with autism being prevelant in the past (or mutually exclusive with the usually implied and objectionable claim that "Environmental factor X", usually vaccines, "is the cause").
If anything, based on my experience, and the experience of my autistic friends; I would expect autism to be on the rise just because of assortitive mating. With the invention of widespread access to university, and growing cities, it's much easier to meet autistic people than it would've been in the past.
CobaltFire•3h ago
This is awesome, and a nice trip down memory lane for when I lived in Hawai'i.
Looks like the last update was in January 2014 though.
JdeBP•1h ago
Oscar Voss was updating some of xyr other pages as recently as 2018.
ghushn3•4h ago
I mean that lovingly.
xx__yy•3h ago
Then I saw the date of the last update: http://www.hawaiihighways.com/what's-new.htm So comprehensive!
ViscountPenguin•1h ago
If anything, based on my experience, and the experience of my autistic friends; I would expect autism to be on the rise just because of assortitive mating. With the invention of widespread access to university, and growing cities, it's much easier to meet autistic people than it would've been in the past.