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Author Topic:   Older fathers responsible for increase in autism?
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08-24-2012 2:30 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Theodoric
08-23-2012 2:30 PM


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increase in autism diagnoses
Could a reason, at least in part, for this be the massive leaps in understanding the condition?
for one, Autism is understood, now, to be a 'spectrum'. So whereas many folk who had 'mild' autism would perhaps not have been diagnosed and/or just assumed to be geeky or have behavioural problems, are now grouped under the heading "Autism" thereby increasing the numbers with the condition.
It's a similar thing with Cancer diagnoses, with the discovery of more types of cancer, and better techniques for detection it's inevitable that the numbers are going to increase.

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