Do you think there is an actual increase in Autistics or is it mostly misdiagnosis/self-diagnosis?

[RacistComputer79]

I strongly disagree. People who diagnose themselves with mental illness are just attention seeking faggots. Just get your shit together and do your job, whatever it is. I've had enough of "isms" and "phobias". Fucking faggots never got slapped across the face as a kid and now they act spoiled.

I've had plenty of women and sometimes men tell me shit like: "eerm, I have ADHD, I have panick attacks, I have autism", no nigga you're just a whiny ass bitch.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

There's an increase of all kinds of mental disorders but self diagnosis is definitely a popular way for a bland and boring person seeking to make themselves seems special, in the negative sense of the word.

I also feel the autism label is used to mask more serious pathologies, like BPD, schizophrenia and the like, because the symptoms and behaviors can overlap with those of ADHD/autism. Untreated and/or undiagnosed schizos/psychos will claim to have autism when they're called out for egregious behavior, but really they're merely lunatics that are in need of treatment and medication.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

People are becoming parents at older ages. This is causing more autism.

There's currency in having a identifiable and known disability rather than some obscure one. This is causing a rise in mis self-diagnosis.

People prefer other people to be interchangeable parts as it's easier to deal with. This is the explanation of the rise in autism-fatigue (and disability fatigue).

 

[8reallybigbirds]

People are becoming parents at older ages. This is causing more autism.

Not only that, but girls are menstruating earlier, women are going into menopause earlier, men are experiencing huge drops in testosterone and experiencing hair loss earlier. Our collective hormones are being altered through mass plastic use and meat pumped full of hormones. Birth control in the water supply. We're going to evolve into hideous androgenous soy sludge creatures in the next hundred or so years. It's actually so over bros.

 

[23iwakura23]

Autism diagnosis is up because DSM V redefined the criteria needed for diagnosis vs. the DSM IV.

Under DSM IV rules, you needed more criteria to qualify, and you couldn't diagnose autism and ADD/ADHD in the same person. They were considered totally opposite disorders that were mutually incompatible. These two things combined meant that it was harder to diagnose someone under the old rules.

DSM V came out in 2013, so it's pretty recent and only something that's going to affect zoomer kids and millenial adults who went out trying to get diagnosed in their 20s.

 

[Sultan Bin Jewstar]

these women will run to the doctor and post about going through numerous doctors until they get the diagnosis they want.

it's still weird that it's become almost fashionable among certain demographics.

you lack social interaction because your life consists of playing a computer game 24/7, you definitely will develop autistic like symptoms

the problem might be that our society is insane.

All our modern world is fucking our brains. Screens, social isolation, disruption to sleep patterns, drugs (legal and not.)
I really believe that social media and current culture also drives the formation of personality disorders.

what happens to children who suffer childhood neglect or have other untreated developmental disorders like ADHD during childhood.

There are more spergs.

Modern parenthood is a failed institution.
Moms and dads bring life into the world and promptly shit on it and why they do speaks to the frailty of humans.
You have an opportunity to form a being that surpasses you in every conceivable way, but you want to watch or listen to some retard talk about the conveniences and luxuries you wish you had or talk to people you want to fuck instead of worry about what is in front of you.
Autism is, by and large, a symptom of societal sickness and parents who would have been better off fostering a wasp nest.
Projecting what you wish for yourself on your children is shit.
Neglecting your children to grant yourself a convenient glimpse into a life you locked yourself out of by procreating is shit.
Using your children as a means to get the attention you crave is shit.

This is why we have more autists.

The rest are grifters and legitimate, no stopping this train (even with good parenting), autistics; the rarest being the former.

 

[Punished Derich]

I just want to say it's suspicious that the places you find the most people denying the existence of autism are the places where they congregate the most.