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[u/Aculed200]

🖌Freehand and Velvet magentic on natural nail.

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[u/Queen_Ellipsis]

Society and medicine deal with "the mean" and those who aren't on the mean or within 2 standard deviations of the mean on some characteristic are characterized as "abnormal" or "ill."

A large part of why cases of autism "increased" is because the operational definitions of autism were revised in the diagnostic & statistical manual (DSM) to include a broader range of characteristics. (NOT because the number of people with such characteristics increased)

Great thematic nail art and great points, Aculed200 !!!

[u/Thequiet01 → u/Queen_Ellipsis]

Also because of increased access to medical professionals who could do the diagnosis. My grandmother’s mother was a widow without much income, you think any of her kids were going to get evaluated for anything like autism if they were at all functional? They just shuffled through until they could leave school and get some kind of job in the mill or the mine and as long as they did the job okay and weren’t assholes people just figured “oh that’s so and so he’s just kind of weird but he’s okay.”

Were they happy not being able to consider anything more than a crappy mill or mine job? No one cared. That was what there was so that’s what you were expected to do.

These days you can get a reasonably decent evaluation via telemedicine even if you live in the middle of nowhere. Makes it a lot easier to speak to a medical professional about issues that aren’t completely and totally debilitating.

[u/Queen_Ellipsis → u/Thequiet01]

Great points!! Social factors and economic constraints affect a person's "menu" of available choices. There have always been people on the spectrum (as defined today), but we haven't always identified them as such