Summary
This was a timed post. The way these work is that if it takes me more than one hour to complete the post, an applet that I made deletes everything I’ve written so far and I abandon the post.
Highlights
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Large numbers of Americans believe that there is an autism “epidemic”—an enormous increase in the portion of the population that has autism. The reality is much more mundane; the truth is that larger and larger portions of the population are being diagnosed with autism. This distinction is key to understanding the epidemic. The epidemic is artefactual: not real, not about autism actually becoming more common, not about neurological disorders proliferating, etc. etc. etc.