• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    i see what you’re saying but please be careful framing it this way. The biggest reason by far for more autism diagnoses is greater awareness, access to healthcare, and expanding the criteria to less severe cases. We are simply identifying people with autism better than we used to.

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      As a late diagnosed aspie, I fully get that. I also know that vaccines save a lot of lives, including fellow autistics.

      The phrasing is also fun to derail the brains of people complaining about vaccines. It can bypass their mental defences and makes them think for a moment. It doesn’t work on the hard core, but the casual idiots are easier to deprogram.