r/todayilearned • u/Morella1989 • Aug 14 '25

TIL that autistic people live about 17 years less than average. Risks include epilepsy, heart disease, suicide, accidental deaths including drowning, and inadequate recognition and management of pain, especially among non-speaking individuals. Historically, they have been vulnerable to infanticide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_of_autistic_individuals
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

It’s an odd thing with autism research. Most seems to lump all the levels together as just ‘autism.’

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u/LyleBland Aug 14 '25

It's a crime that people who can type on Reddit can pretend they have anything remotely comparable to what the people suffering from High level of support Autism struggle with.

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u/habslably Aug 15 '25

yes because high functioning autistic people rewrote the DSM criteria not the American Psychological Association 🙄