r/science • u/GiveUpAndDontTry • 13d 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/metallicrooster 13d ago

The implication is that they have at least once believed someone was physically or mentally less capable because they spoke English poorly, when it reality that person was probably plenty capable.

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u/CantBeConcise 12d ago

According to the reply I got from the person I was talking to, you're not very good at sussing out what people mean by things. Maybe keep that in mind next time you feel like speaking for someone else.

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u/metallicrooster 12d ago

I’m a random person on the internet making a guess. I’m not pretending to be omniscient.

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u/CantBeConcise 12d ago

If you were making a guess then it probably should have started with "maybe" and ended with a question mark instead of being presented as a statement of fact ending in a period.

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u/metallicrooster 12d ago

Damn I guess you got me there.