Given that the term autism didn't exist before 1911 it probably wasn't being diagnosed a whole lot before then. But I would guess it went up as understanding and awareness of it grew, but there were definitely descriptions of people who met the criteria for it long before then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autism

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deadbeef79000 2 points 2 years ago

I was wondering about that as I was furiously typing out my scathing sarcastic bullshit with a shit eating grin on my face.

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GiddyGap 22 points 2 years ago

Watch RFK wash it all away.

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banshee 3 points 2 years ago

Yep. They're coming back in a big fuckin' way.

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RememberTheApollo_ 14 points 2 years ago

Antivaxxers: Hold my Ivermectin and watch this…

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will_a113 12 points 2 years ago

Would be neat to see deaths or hospitalizations pre/post visualized this way too to really drive home the point for the “measles weren’t really that bad” crowd.

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yoshi 11 points 2 years ago

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shalafi 2 points 2 years ago

I was gonna say. The US population was 207M when I was born. It's now 335M. I would expect percentages to be far more telling.

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SpaceFox 1 point 2 years ago

No I'm not. I tried sending you a private message but it told me I had to download something

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