Why are

[@audreygebauer1740]

“Theyre just handing diagnosis’s out left and right” well yea, because we know what to look for now

[@BradKandyCroftFamily]

I totally call BS on "awareness". It's suggestion that we have been missing them for a long time. The biggest increases aren't in high functioning people who blend in decently to the population. They can be missed even today. Nope, the biggest increase is in the low functioning cases. Severe autism is dramatic and unmissable. We would have been able to pick those kids out as something was wrong with them, easy. We would have had some kind of diagnosis for it if not autism. This is an excuse to hide behind because they don't want to admit that autism must be being driven by an outside force, not genetics.

[@samanthaeusebio8720]

People in the comments who have not looked at medical/scientific studies are eager to dismiss her, crazy 😂

[@casey0613]

You know, you don’t have to be in medical science to know when there’s more than enough stupidity in the room to go around. So maybe you can explain why those of us who were born in the 50s and went to school in the 60s, and 70s and went to college in the late 70s and 80s, yet never experienced anyone with autism. And I’ve lived and been educated on two continents. When you widen the search criteria, when you use a larger net you will catch more fish. That’s all this is, they’re just trying to put everybody into a labeled pond. The teachers unions have been pushing this socialist agenda for 50 years! And this is where we are now. We don’t need to educate people anymore. We just need to lower the bar and make everybody special needs.

[@fiercecoffee1634]

Yes a checklist with so many broad terms ect. Same with so much of this ADHD/ADD. What is the explaination for parents who have firsthand experience with their children suddenly backpedaling on milestones and regressing? HOW and WHY is this happening? Is it all just autism? Are there other things going on? Why is the US so high in rates of SIDS? These are things that I ponder so regularly but research is so pitiful. How do doctors/pharmacies make money? Diagnose and treat. We should be much more cautious of a system that benefits from people being unwell. Always more vaccines, always more well visits, overmedicating, and always ‘yes your child has a hard time being cooped up all day they must be mentally ill!!!’

[@PoliticalPerspective7]

Always look for incentive to understand results.

[@marigoldtrimborn697]

Hmmmmmmm or the main reason being the toxic food industry. Yea that’s def it

[@s.p642]

I definitely think it's in the foods that we eat.

[@edubpeccin]

Or the diagnostic criteria are too wide nowadays?

[@kiwisweet5520]

do you even know what the criteria are?

[@sylvanticx]

They're not. In order to be diagnosed, you have marked difficulties in various areas of your life. That goes for level 1/low supports autistics, too. Previously, with the Asperger's/autism/PDD-NOS diagnoses, one doctor would give one diagnosis, and the same person could go to a different doctor and get a different diagnosis for the exact same symptoms and presentation, because the criteria were very similar and subject to individual biases. There wasn't a real meaningful difference between someone with Asperger's and someone with autism or PDD-NOS; while Asperger's was the "mild one", in reality the lines were incredibly blurry. Additionally, the DSM-V's leveling system allows for the fluctuations in support needs that can happen throughout an individual's life- someone may initially be diagnosed as a L2 or L3 autistic, and then become an L1 or L2, or vice versa. Yes, more people are being diagnosed, but it's due to advancements in our understanding of autism.

[@kays_nook]

I feel like we're all a little speciel it just depends on the level

[@tigolbitti3s]

Not everyone is autistic. I'd say the majority of people could be considered neurodivergent, on the spectrum. Not a scale. Not everyone is on the spectrum. Calling it "special" is honestly a bit degrading.

[@pockethole1900]

😢the Amish do not have a single case of autism. The Amish do not vaccinate. That's the other point worth knowing!

[@sally43225]

The Amish also probably don’t check for autism

[@bethbusbee1212]

She has no idea what she’s taking about

[@jaya7760]

Lol she's an expert. Who tf are you? Just some random on the Internet.

[@samanthaeusebio8720]

Careful, your ignorance is showing.

[@xxmvvi]

After 20 years of medical research done by professionals quite literally smarter than you (I know that because they usually spell “talking” right) it is incomprehensibly impossible that they have discovered NEW THINGS. How shocking, jarring might I add. Blasphemy. There could be no way someone who knows more things about Psychology could ever exist in a world with you around, Beth. You obviously have the answers for… well, everything. Ever.

[@Moonlover1492]

What school did you go to to study this topic? What experience do you have in this? How is what you're saying credible at all?

[@danabelles9272]

Who is this speaker?

[@neipsychopharm]

Dr. Robyn Thom, board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School

[@heatherrowell4705]

Not actually