Because even minor levels of neurodivergence are considered on the autism spectrum now.

https://youtu.be/jI1-crm_xRI?feature=shared

Big pharma

better diagnoses, mostly

Vaccines

The chairman of the DSM committee said it himself that the definition of ADHD and autism was too broad and would include too many healthy people. I personally believe the main cause is overdiagnosis, but also probably a real increase caused mostly by our fiat food and lifestyle.

Oh, and no, vaccines don't cause autism.

Imagine if doctors got bonuses for vaccinating children. I'm sure not of this world happen.

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fake/loose diagnostic practice. Weak minds and lost culture

Overdiagnosing, overmedicating, overemploying lots of people who need to justify their jobs at public schools and public health systems, "minority hyping" for otherwise demographic majority people, etc.

It all started 1971. Joke aside, most probably better diagnosis techniques, better doctors.

Better diagnosis.

To be fair different diagnosis must have something to do with it - which I know because my autistic brother wasn't diagnosed with when he was born.. ..but it was probably caused by vaccines anyway (according to his docs at the time) so...

Anyone commenting here who is sure vaccines are fine, please read this, especially if you are considering vaccinating kids. https://www.amazon.com/Turtles-All-Way-Down-Vaccine/dp/9655981045 TL;DR virtually all vaccines are only tested for safety by comparison with other vaccines, which themselve...

There are more people being forcefully vaccinated and more cases of real and hypochondrial autism

The amount of neurotoxic metals that we inject babies and children with happens to have a similar looking chart on the same timeline... https://m.primal.net/JUNe.gif

Diagnose more cases, sell more drugs, someone figured this out.

I know that there are serious questions about childhood vaccines, but my guess is that we're not looking at one specific cause. It's likely a dramatic drop in overall health (fiat food, poor sleep, less community, lack of natural light and activity) AND far more challenges (medications, toxins in ou...

Probably multiple causes which are hard to weight for sure at this point. Vaccine shots would be an obvious cause, because they are done at birth (as loony and tinfoil hat as it sounds in today's climate, I wouldn't be surprised if in 50-100 years data about their harm will be collected), a lot of a...

Diagnosing improved. Or it was actually done.