The psychologists changed the DSM in the 80s and changed the criteria for what the diagnosis for autism is.
So now, many of the people that might have been diagnosed as, say, mildly mentally retarded before, are now said to be on the autism spectrum.
So most of these "increased cases" of autism are nothing more than changing what we label people.
Surely someone has wondered what happened to all the "retarded" kids after the word "retarded" was targeted as being hateful and people stopped using it to refer to a diagnosis?
They didn't just dissappear. So, according to the same logic being used here, we could say that the increase of childhood vaccinations decreased the number of mentally retarded children in the US.
The psychologists changed the DSM in the 80s and changed the criteria for what the diagnosis for autism is.
So now, many of the people that might have been diagnosed as, say, mildly mentally retarded before, are now said to be on the autism spectrum.
So most of these "increased cases" of autism are nothing more than changing what we label people.
Surely someone has wondered what happened to all the "retarded" kids after the word "retarded" was targeted as being hateful and people stopped using it to refer to a diagnosis?
They didn't just dissappear. So, according to the same logic being used here, we could say that the increase of childhood vaccinations decreased the number of mentally retarded children in the US.
See how that works?