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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp, the majority of ASD diagnoses do not have ID. Are you saying that even ASD w/o ID would have been labelled MR?[/quote]

The less impacted kids wouldn’t have been diagnosed with any disability, and the most impacted kids I do think would have been diagnosed with ID. Here’s a recent summary of that history: https://www.kennedykrieger.org/stories/interactive-autism-network-ian/measuring-iq-autism
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I went to a school for smart kids and we had a lot of the high IQ kids that would likely get an ASD diagnosis now, but has no diagnosis (except maybe anxiety if their parents were really attentive, which most 80s parents weren’t).  But I still think that the occurance is much higher now.  Maybe that’s in part due to kids not masking as much.  But I also think it’s an epigenetic explosion caused by something in the environment, which is also happening with other neurological conditions.

I understand some PPs saying none of this matters, but in the very long term, I think it will matter to future generations and I hope that researchers of good faith continue t try to figure this all out.  My personal gut sense is that there are probably a few different conditions here that are all being lumped together. Like someone that coughs a lot — could have TB, could have allergies, could have CF, could have COPD.  Each is probably nenefitted by similar things (nebulizers, fresh air, etc.).  But for a lot of reasons, the causes of the cough matter and we are all better off when science can figure stuff out.[/quote]

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