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Re:Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins by r3trohack3r on Saturday May 11, 2024 @06:01PM (#40330910)
They have.

But I do not believe they were as common prior to the 1960s as they are in the 2020s.

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Re:Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins by squigz on Saturday May 11, 2024 @08:42PM (#40331559)
Do you have data to inform that belief?
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Re:Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins by superb_dev on Saturday May 11, 2024 @09:17PM (#40331726)
Were they less common, or unknown/heavily stigmatized?
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Re:Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins by TylerE on Sunday May 12, 2024 @12:10AM (#40332231)
Another confounding variable is that we got so much better at testing many things that we have people living long enough to clearly manifest problems that may not have decades or centuries ago.

Sort of like how a big part of the increase in cancer deaths are people living long enough to die of cancer.

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Re:Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins by yareal on Sunday May 12, 2024 @02:25AM (#40332577)
In the 1960s you had to learn to mask your differences or you would suffer violence directed at you. We used to beat kids for not behaving in the ways we expect.

Get enough beatings, you learn to hide the thing that gets you beat.

I'm not at all convinced it was less common back then, just more hidden.

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