I strongly suspect the modern “spectrum” is just grouping and labeling certain personality profiles that have always existed in roughly similar proportions.
Meaning that it’s not the proportion that is increasing, it’s that we chose to define certain combinations of human traits as ASD.
On the whole this labeling is probably useful since more people will get the support they need. But the point of delineation is mostly arbitrary.
Strongly heriditary. When you married within the local village the chance/risk of your spouse also being on the spectrum was lower than when you matchmake through online services and hundreds of dates.
/non-diagnosed GenX with two out of three kids diagnosed so far
So is it genetic background or is it your neurodivergent modeling of the behavior to them?
FYI it can’t be determined without a much more in-depth genetic studies. This is especially true with complex multi-gene interaction traits like autism seems to be.
I strongly suspect the modern “spectrum” is just grouping and labeling certain personality profiles that have always existed in roughly similar proportions. Meaning that it’s not the proportion that is increasing, it’s that we chose to define certain combinations of human traits as ASD.
On the whole this labeling is probably useful since more people will get the support they need. But the point of delineation is mostly arbitrary.
Same way there’s suddenly more lefthanders or LGBT+ people now that we don’t beat it out of them as much anymore.
Now I want to see a line graph of left handedness and LGBTQ over time.
The graph looks something like this: /
No, I mean two lines showing the change in each over time, not the correlation between each other.
I can draw you one, but it would just come out as a pen smudge 😔
Autism is indeed just a label how the medical world identifies us.
Neurodivergent is how we identify ourselves and i believes it fits your observations very well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity
This map likely only looks at diagnosis and ignores dyslexic and adhd types.
Strongly heriditary. When you married within the local village the chance/risk of your spouse also being on the spectrum was lower than when you matchmake through online services and hundreds of dates.
/non-diagnosed GenX with two out of three kids diagnosed so far
Genotype x Environment = Phenotype.
So is it genetic background or is it your neurodivergent modeling of the behavior to them?
FYI it can’t be determined without a much more in-depth genetic studies. This is especially true with complex multi-gene interaction traits like autism seems to be.
Wife is a psychologist working in diagnosis of ADHD and autism. I’ll go with the knowledge I’ve gotten from there. Thanks.