Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
OK there are not 2 bars per year. 2nd last is 2020, last 2022.
It’s not clear why everyone is mad at the chart. It does show an increase. Though, this is about autism diagnoseses, which can be influenced by kickback bribes for diagnoseses.
There is a sharper (exponential) increase since 2012, even though pharma corruption solutions existed many years before then, afaik. Some explanation for the acceleration is needed. Its not tylenol or any new vaccines.
Autism diagnosis is can also be increased by just better recognition of the disease. You think anyone was going around giving out autism diagnosis in the 90s come on.
An increase in diagnosis rates does not indicate an underlying increase in the condition.
My diagnosis is in that spike. I got diagnosed late because it took that long to get away from my autism denying parent and enough time living on my own to start wondering about my “weird habits”, especially after starting to meet others “like me”.
It stopped being a disability in my mind and started being more like a superpower, and eventually out was just who I was and y’all can just deal with it. Of course I leaned boundaries and social graces because we live in a society, but how I view myself and other people definitely changed
So I think it has a lot to do with how this generation and previous ones changed how they handle autism.
Er, did you look at all the dates on the x axis? Because that shit makes no sense whatsoever.
davidagain@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Er, did you look at all the dates on the x axis? Because that shit makes no sense whatsoever.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It took me a while to understand the graph too. All of the information needed is included in OP image. Posting what may be Trump/RFK propaganda that may or not be based on lies and non data, just to attack it for not being the absolute clearest graph is posting Trump propaganda. Graph would be clearer if they omitted birth years. OK.
Posting this is still equivalent to “sun goes up sun goes down. ain’t nobody understand that” manipulation that reinforces people’s lack of understanding to trust the speaker on anything and everything.
davidagain@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if diagnosis increased as public awareness increased.