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Ryan Gillis's avatar

The increase in info and awareness around it and personal experiences shared on social media probably has had a big impact at least in the recent years. And wanted to add that NT’s literally wouldn’t be interested in the social “contagion” bc they don’t have the capacity or relatability to do so. Autistic people and other ND’s go all in and research endlessly.

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Kris Winters's avatar

Thank you for continuing to spread the accurate data. It is a terrifying time. To read about "the registry" today brought me to a crying ball on the floor by the end of the night. I had been holding it in all day. First it is the registry, next it is the trains to the camps, then is the experimentation and/or isolation, and last is the disposal. These are not exaggerations. This is history repeating itself, and it does not stop without the full force of a nation pushing back. Even if we fail, I will not go quietly. I will not go back to masking, and I will not go gentle into that awful night. Like Dylan Thomas urged, I will "Rage, RAGE, against the dying of the light."

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AnnHatzakis's avatar

I think it is about what you theorized. However, UNTIL we include late diagnosed individuals, we won't actually see accommodations become more normalized.

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Sarah's avatar

I have no idea on a guess but I have to say that the increase in diagnosing children has led to an increase in diagnosing adults. Because my niece and nephews were diagnosed that led to awareness that my brothers are autistic as well. They've always been autistic but it wasn't diagnosed when I was growing up. Then we realized other members in the extended family are autistic as well including grandparents and so on. There have always been autistic people around.... It hasn't increased.

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NeuroDivergent Rebel's avatar

ABSOLUTELY!

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Rosanna Tufts's avatar

I'll venture a guess: 1 in 25? And that's being conservative. It may end up being more like 1 in 5. Still significantly outnumbered, as any military general will tell you.

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Deborah L. Hall's avatar

I’d go with the higher estimate. I think we are Legion.

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NeuroDivergent Rebel's avatar

Yeah, I would give it a range of 1 in 10 to one in 25 - let's see where it is in 10 years when we know more. They don't really understand masking even now.

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Deborah L. Hall's avatar

I was thinking more like 1 in 5. Wouldn’t a spectrum include varying degrees of expression?

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NeuroDivergent Rebel's avatar

Good point.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

Thank you for responding so vividly to the many incorrect and erroneous assumptions made about autism by people who obviously do not know how it works. As an autistic person, I appreciate all efforts made to have the truth known.

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NeuroDivergent Rebel's avatar

I hope I have expressed it simply and clearly so it's easy to repeat

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