The Science Vs. podcast just did an episode on this.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2eKgmLJZrEKTbVzCVYzp0u
Spoiler: It’s exactly as the meme describes. Autism rates are rising not because more people are becoming autistic, but because we’ve expanded the definition and improved how we recognize and diagnose it.
hey guys! If we stop testing for covid, the number of covid cases will go down!
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Why are people so fucking dumb?
Telescopes cause autism, got it.
No no, you’ve got it the wrong way round: autism causes telescopes
I thought it was the planets that were making autism.
Autism telescopes causes, got it.
No, no no, it should be; causes autism telescopes.
Radio telescopes are notorious for that because they’re on the far end of the spectrum.
They’re literally a tool designed for hyper fixating.
As they say take my upvote and GTFO.
So…what I’m getting is
we need to make space illegal?
Quad City DJ’s are in danger
Please don’t give ‘em ideas…
This has the same vibe as
I wonder what happened in the 1890s to scare that many left-handed people back into hiding…
My late 70’s experience probably didn’t help. My first grade teacher tied my left hand to the desk. The next year they stopped doing that. I later found out the school district lost a long ongoing lawsuit and it hit them where they kept their heart. In the wallet.
My grandmother had her left hand tied to her high chair or behind her back by her mother before she even went to school. People are fucked up.
I’ve heard the stories. Thing is some of the most creative people I’ve ever met were left handed.
Ain’t that what they say? That creative people are left-handed? 😁
Corporal punishment
That’s the general thing yeah, but I’m pretty sure that they were already doing that BEFORE the dip…
Probably the same reason there’s so much more breast cancer since the invention of the mammography machine.
Wasn’t Pluto “discovered” around the time autism was first “diagnosed”?
Aha! So it was Pluto causing autism and the push to reclass it as a dwarf planet was an attempt to reduce its power!
somebody get that graph of left handed people
This is so on point it kinda hurts.
Have you thought maybe there was just some errant cheese on the stench coil?
Sick burn.
