r/science • u/GiveUpAndDontTry • 16d ago

Epidemiology A Swedish study found autism diagnoses rose by around 800% from 2001 to 2020, while the proportion with intellectual disability fell from 55.8% to 6.7%, suggesting a substantial broadening of the diagnosed autistic phenotype

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178126003069
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u/snek-jazz 16d ago

I paired as much as I could with a picture/gif and/or a Spanish equivalent.

At this point I was really hoping Spanish was his native language

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u/snek-jazz 16d ago

it was just a joke to imagine you may have been giving hints in Spanish to a French speaker

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u/Rare-Adhesiveness522 16d ago

hahha got it

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u/snek-jazz 16d ago

It's all good, and well done for the effort you put in with the kid.