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Autism skyrocketed, we had 1 in 59 kids in 2014 in the us. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html

I don't want to even think about the present.

Unfortunately autism cause research is governed by scientific dogma that prevents acknowledgement of the source of such rapid disastrous increase, this shows how scientific progress is controlled by corporations and government through funding and politics.

Just like the church controlled it in the middle ages.

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Autism diagnoses skyrocketed - an important distinction.

In US schools, frequently to get help for a child like in a 504 plan, or IEP, you generally need to get a diagnosis. The Autism spectrum as it is defined at the moment is so wide and vast that you can take a couple traits that could be normal neurodiversity but apply an ASD diagnosis to it. This leads to further institutionalization, medications and therapists being shoved down kids throats, by pharmaceutical companies promising to solve symptoms and "save" parents kids.

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