Is There an Autism Epidemic?

Two reasons why autism diagnosis is on the rise.

Ines May
ArtfullyAutistic
Published in
4 min readSep 8, 2021

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In the last decade or so, awareness of Autism has become more and more common. The number of people with Autism diagnoses has also increased leading many to speculate about an ongoing “Autism epidemic”.

As you probably know, this has lead many people to wrongfully associate this “rise” in Autism cases with…

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Ines May
ArtfullyAutistic

Veterinarian, diagnosed with autism at 27, writing to figure life. E-mail me at ineslmedium@gmail.com Become a member: https://inesl.medium.com/membership