Comments by "Styracosaurus QVT" (@styracosaurusqvt4841) on "Autism massive increase" video.

  1. When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, autism was rare enough that most people had never heard of it. Severe allergies, such as to peanuts, were extremely rare then as well.
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  2. But it is a disability, that cannot and should not be hidden beneath euphemisms. Only 50 years ago it was exceedingly rare.
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  3. Wrong, that’s an excuse people use to minimize the tragedy of the autism surge.
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  4. No, it’s because the prevalence of autism has surged in the last 50 years, and attributing that surge to “better diagnosis” impedes the accurate identification of the cause.
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  5. Wrong. More are being diagnosed because the prevalence has increased dramatically.
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  6. False.
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  7. False, it’s a dramatic surge from the 1970s when autism was so rare most people had never heard of it.
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  8. Autistic children were far less common 50 years ago. Something environmental has caused a surge in autism prevalence.
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  9.  @canikickit7  Well, then “strange” kids were less common 50 years ago. Something environmental is interfering with normal brain development, a factor that was much less common only 50 years ago.
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  10. @ Some kids were strange, including me, but none I ever met were autistic.
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  11.  @maureenbray6905  Wrong. Autistic people over 50 are much more rare than they are among the younger generations, not because of misdiagnosis, but because of absence of cases. The sad truth is something environmental is harming the nervous systems of children in a manner that was much less common decades ago. It’s like claiming peanut allergy sufferers are merely “immunodiverse,” and there were actually many peanut allergy sufferers years ago who were ignored.
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  12. This is false.
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  13.  @dieZera  Wrong.
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