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Asperger's/PDD

mapol

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4. The reason people are treating autism as an epidemic is ignorance or willful ignorance.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 03:25 PM

Sep 2019

It's not that autism is on the increase, but there's much more awareness of it than there was in the past. That's why more people are being diagnosed with it.

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Why are we still treating autism like an epidemic? [View all] KamaAina Sep 2015 OP

When Kanner decided to hog and suppress Asperger's research Demeter Oct 2015 #1

Have you read Steve Silberman's NeuroTribes, by any chance? KamaAina Oct 2015 #2

I read some articles on it, but not the whole book Demeter Oct 2015 #3

The reason people are treating autism as an epidemic is ignorance or willful ignorance. mapol Sep 2019 #4