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Some people blame vaccines or the environment. But so far we don't have concrete proof of anything.
What happened?
autistic people and add people were always there. They were abused or put in mental institutions or ended up homeless instead of helping them.
Causation is hard to prove. I'd argue that diagnostics are what have actually changed. Doctors are more aware of autism, and are capable of easily recognizing the symptoms. However, that goes hand in hand with a propensity to over-diagnose a specific disorder.
People tend to mix up correlation and causation; that's how the whole stupid anti-vax movement got started, when the answer could just be as simple as diagnostic criteria evolving.
Look at the increasing frequency of ADD and ADHD diagnoses...are those caused by vaccines too? Yeah, no.
I doubt the numbers have changed significantly its probly just getting diagnosed more kinda like 24 hr cable news there are still the same number of wars and natural disasters but they need to report on something so they blast it at us all the time so it seems like more.
I think it has to do more with the increase in diagnoses, and a increased knowledge of it, and ability to pick it out, its like most Syndromes and diseases, they have always been, just easier to find a case now
You sure seem to be on a don't sleep with a screen on thing lately whats up with that? I've fallen asleep either listening to music or watching something on a screen most nights for the last 10 years and I don't have any sleep disorders. Most of the time I get by fine on 6 hours or so and I occasionally binge sleep for 10 hours if I've had a string of hard days and I finally get some time off. I've never noticed any problem with my sleep.