Naw it must be the vaccines
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Wasn't Pluto "discovered" around the time autism was first "diagnosed"?
Aha! So it was Pluto causing autism and the push to reclass it as a dwarf planet was an attempt to reduce its power!
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Have you thought maybe there was just some errant cheese on the stench coil?
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My late 70's experience probably didn't help. My first grade teacher tied my left hand to the desk. The next year they stopped doing that. I later found out the school district lost a long ongoing lawsuit and it hit them where they kept their heart. In the wallet.
My grandmother had her left hand tied to her high chair or behind her back by her mother before she even went to school. People are fucked up.
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My grandmother had her left hand tied to her high chair or behind her back by her mother before she even went to school. People are fucked up.
I've heard the stories. Thing is some of the most creative people I've ever met were left handed.
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Corporal punishment
That's the general thing yeah, but I'm pretty sure that they were already doing that BEFORE the dip..
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Telescopes cause autism, got it.
No no, you've got it the wrong way round: autism causes telescopes
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No no, you've got it the wrong way round: autism causes telescopes
Autism telescopes causes, got it.
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The Science Vs. podcast just did an episode on this.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2eKgmLJZrEKTbVzCVYzp0u
Spoiler: It's exactly as the meme describes. Autism rates are rising not because more people are becoming autistic, but because we’ve expanded the definition and improved how we recognize and diagnose it.
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hey guys! If we stop testing for covid, the number of covid cases will go down!
slowbro.pcx
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Why are people so fucking dumb?
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Autism telescopes causes, got it.
No, no no, it should be; causes autism telescopes.
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I've heard the stories. Thing is some of the most creative people I've ever met were left handed.
Ain't that what they say? That creative people are left-handed?
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somebody get that graph of left handed people
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No no, you've got it the wrong way round: autism causes telescopes
I thought it was the planets that were making autism.
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No no, you've got it the wrong way round: autism causes telescopes
You're right. First I was autistic, THEN I got a telescope. Evostar 90mm refractor, thank you for asking.
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Do we know if autism is genetic? Otherwise the question is not entirely wrong. There could be a cultural influence that we should figure out.
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The Science Vs. podcast just did an episode on this.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2eKgmLJZrEKTbVzCVYzp0u
Spoiler: It's exactly as the meme describes. Autism rates are rising not because more people are becoming autistic, but because we’ve expanded the definition and improved how we recognize and diagnose it.
improved how we recognize and diagnose it.
Well, we at least have changed how we recognize and diagnose it, I'm not totally convinced it's 100% an "improvement". We've kind of jumbled up a whole bunch of people under a common umbrella and diluted the implications of the term, to the point where it tells you negligible practical information when someone is described as "autistic" or "on the spectrum".
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Do we know if autism is genetic? Otherwise the question is not entirely wrong. There could be a cultural influence that we should figure out.
Whether autism is genetic is not related to the question at all. More people are diagnosed with autism because we have better tests now than before and we test more kids.
And finally we also broadened what is considered autism.
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Do we know if autism is genetic? Otherwise the question is not entirely wrong. There could be a cultural influence that we should figure out.
I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the factors is ‘we stopped beating kids’. Back in ye olden days, they’d hit kids until they stopped being ‘weird’. You obviously can’t do that today.
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People still believe that long debunked "study" Wakefield did? it's because autism is more recognised now. my mom recently got diagnosed and she's in her 50s
