Posted by linkadge on August 31, 2016, at 21:34:57
In reply to Re: vaccinations and autism, posted by baseball55 on August 31, 2016, at 18:42:37
>It is widely believed that autism diagnoses have >increased not because of an increase in the >incidence of autism, but because of increased
>diagnoses.No. This is not 'widely believed'. This is one suggestion (or theory that some groups ascribe to) for why rates of autism have dramatically increased. There is a similar suggestion for why rates of many psychiatric diagnosis have increased (i.e. that we are simply 'better diagnosing' the problem). However, this is not necessarily the 'widely held' viewpoint. It is more palatable to believe that we are simply better able to detect the problem, rather than suggesting that mankind has anything to do with it.
Working in the public education system, many of the my senior educators admit to seeing an increasing rates of behavioral / autistic / sensory issues than had previously existed.
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