HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. incited backlash after questioning why autism is "only happening in young people" during a televised news briefing.
People started having kids at later age. My parents were 36 and 37 when I was born, so here I am, mildly autistic.
On top of that, I’d never have known if I didn’t go to a psychologist and ask my doctor.
My dad likely is autistic too. Just never went to a psychologist in his life. (He’s the last child of 6 kids, so his parents were likely old at that stage too)
If it’s not causing serious impairment, people won’t seek information about it. There’s a ton of people with neurodivergency that live perfectly fine lives.
It’s the overactive amygdala that caused me the most impairment anyways, not autism. Luckily, that can be helped with a simple medicine.
I don’t understand the downvotes here. Parental age has in fact been identified as a risk factor for more than a decade.
But also, just being on the spectrum is not problematic. And, as you point out, a lot of people are probably somewhere on the spectrum but are undiagnosed because (in the US, at least) we generally don’t seek medical attention unless we’re experiencing some sort of crisis.
People started having kids at later age. My parents were 36 and 37 when I was born, so here I am, mildly autistic.
On top of that, I’d never have known if I didn’t go to a psychologist and ask my doctor.
My dad likely is autistic too. Just never went to a psychologist in his life. (He’s the last child of 6 kids, so his parents were likely old at that stage too)
If it’s not causing serious impairment, people won’t seek information about it. There’s a ton of people with neurodivergency that live perfectly fine lives.
It’s the overactive amygdala that caused me the most impairment anyways, not autism. Luckily, that can be helped with a simple medicine.
I don’t understand the downvotes here. Parental age has in fact been identified as a risk factor for more than a decade.
But also, just being on the spectrum is not problematic. And, as you point out, a lot of people are probably somewhere on the spectrum but are undiagnosed because (in the US, at least) we generally don’t seek medical attention unless we’re experiencing some sort of crisis.