For some reason, that doesn't look like a GPT-generated graph, which means... sadly... that someone had to make that thing.... and somebody had to approve it.
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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What do you bet it's not even based on real data and it's just some random rectangles that they drew.
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....................... did they adjust the data points to go from lowest to highest
......so the chart go up?
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*I wrote down the data on a napkin and it makes more sense. These fuckers made a Bad Graph.
I guess we found the answer to "Is math invented or discovered?"
Bad Graph says: 0.75% of 8 year olds were diagnosed in 2000 versus 3.2% in 2020.
Correlation =/= causation.
How have the diagnostic criteria changed in 20 years? Autism was a stigma when I was in high school in 2000, now it's a spectrum. Are there routine screenings at pediatricians now?
Number go up, but what else go up simultaneously?
I hate it here.
I tutored a young autistic man in college and he was almost non-verbal. He could communicate through speech, but only in monosyllables and with great difficulty and stuttering. That was the only definition of autism I understood at that time, and he was considered better off than many.
A few years later when I learned about Asperger's because my sister got diagnosed with it, I went to get evaluated myself and after sitting down with me once, they said I'm not autistic.
I'm about 99% sure I would be placed on the autism spectrum today.
I don't know whether it's good or bad that the diagnostics / definition of autism seem to be broadening — that's above my pay grade. But you can't deny people who weren't considered autistic 30 years ago are today, and so to compare autism rates which measure clearly different levels of capability is pretty useless.
In order to compare rates, we would need a consistent set of diagnostic criteria.
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Military spending also increased from 2000-2022, ergo military spending causes autism.
The axis makes sense with the label, they just didn't label every data point.
I think the x axis is "year of measurement | year of birth" since they are 8 years apart. Very unconventional and it would need an explanation but it's not bad to have both pieces of information handy in this context
Guarantee you the people afraid of autism has no idea what it even is, other than "bad"
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That's like saying we have more cancer now than in the past.
Sure, that might be true in certain scenarios (we're very good at creating new ways to give ourselves cancer).
The truth is that we're living longer, increasing the risk and likelihood of cancer, and we've gotten a LOT better at finding and diagnosing cancer and specific types.
Yeah Autism rates are going up in all groups because people are getting diagnoses. This is partly about better awareness but also partly about money - there is an incentive to expand the diagnosis, diagnose more people and treat more people, which somewhat muddies the water. Autistic Spectrum Disorder first appeared in the American DSM in 2012, unifying 5 existing conditions into one, and then it moved into the international ICD in 2018 (going live in 2022). It is no wonder awareness has gone up, and infrastructure for diagnosis has rolled out.
We're not seeing an increase in Autism, we're seeing an increase in the diagnosis of autism. This graph just shows how stupid and dumbed down the CDC and the White House is under this cretinous president.
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Absolute nonsense graph. Buckle up, this shit is going to get way worse.
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Dude...
maybe that's why they were elected lol
/s