Re: Are there more autistic people now?

In article <vvgt4e$1aui8$2@dont-email.me>, JAB  <here@is.invalid> wrote:

Are there more autistic people now?
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgp08z3egno
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Nupe: "The autism net has been cast wider" overtime

I suspect this is the case, or, at least, a very large part
of it.

Someone I interact with on another online forum related how she
(after two of her children were autistic, one high function,
one less so) got tested, was found to be definitely on the
spectrum, and her reaction was "I should have known; that's
been my problem all my life!" She has sensory issues that she
has learned how to deal with, and had a successful software
developer career before deciding to go the motherhood route.

Her less-functioning youngest is coming along very well on
home schooling, and becoming more "functional" as he ages;
apparently for many autists, what's necessary is to figure
out what accomodations are needed for their particular issues
and use them. Classroom education would probably be a bad idea.

She also relates that her grandfather was generally considered
to be an "odd duck", though fairly successful in his own
way, and from what she has been able to learn about him, he
sounds very much like her youngest.  Perhaps, in the past,
many people with some degree of autism were better able to
cope in the world as it was a few decades ago.
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