Autism Around The Globe

[Kenzo]

I have family members and friends with children that are autistic. I thought that I was fairly knowledgeable about autism, but I was wrong. When I looked at autism globally, I realized how wrong I was.

I always thought America had the largest population of autistic children. I never thought past America. I am looking at autism with a new set of eyes.

In recent years, cases of autism have risen. The Center for Disease Control announced in 2021 that the rate of autism in the U.S. during 2018 was 1 child in 44. This is a notable rise from rates given in Scientific American, for 2016 (1 in 68, though other sources claim an even-higher 1 in 54 by age 8), 2008 (1 in 88) and 2000 (1 in 150). Moreover, this trend of rising autism, which dates back to the early 1990s, is a global occurrence not confined to the United States. Prevailing theories suggest that the rise is largely due to increased awareness and diagnosis of autism rather than a massive increase in overall occurrences of autism. However, autism is more likely in babies with older parents, who are more common in today's world, and in babies born prematurely, who survive more often now than in previous eras.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countr...by-country


https://www.autismaroundtheglobe.org/

I have a 700 page book published in 1994 by the American Academy of Pediatrics referred to as the authoritative guide on all things developmental, birth to age 5, that doesn't even have the word in it. Apparently, they didn't think Autism was an important developmental problem at the time, in spite of the fact they changed the criteria to supposedly make it more encompassing that very year. (That's what we're told anyway.)
 
Interestingly however, my psychology book published 3 years earlier did indeed mention Autism. That's the picture of page 618 (click image to enlarge) and this is what it says:
 
"Autistic disorder is rare, occurring in fewer than five children per ten thousand births, but with few exceptions (Lovaas, 1987), it leads to a life of marginal adjustment, often within an institution."
 

Back When Autism was A Rare, Life-Long, Institutionalized Disorder: 1991

In the old days autism was rare , if we go back to year 1900 or earlyer even more . So what then started to change the cases, the toxins,environment that effect more and more....