Is Peter Laird on the autism spectrum?

*CyberCubed* · 01-12-2025, 12:11 AM

https://www.autismspeaks.org/autism-statistics-asd

1 in 36 kids these days has autism, and 1 in 46 "adults." The difference is now they're diagnosing more and people with it, whereas a lot of old people from the 90's or prior never got diagnosed when they were kids/teens because most people didn't even know what it was back then.

But I do get the feeling some doctors get a little trigger-happy assigning labels about it. I still don't even really understand how you get diagnosed with it in the first place, like people react differently to tests especially children.

01-12-2025, 12:11 AM	#9
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,863	https://www.autismspeaks.org/autism-statistics-asd 1 in 36 kids these days has autism, and 1 in 46 "adults." The difference is now they're diagnosing more and people with it, whereas a lot of old people from the 90's or prior never got diagnosed when they were kids/teens because most people didn't even know what it was back then. But I do get the feeling some doctors get a little trigger-happy assigning labels about it. I still don't even really understand how you get diagnosed with it in the first place, like people react differently to tests especially children.