• @[email protected]
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        13 hours ago

        I’d much prefer my children alive and autistic than dead (or debilitatingly disabled) too.

        There’s something weird about people who seem to think the other way around.

    • @[email protected]
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      1216 hours ago

      Given that the term autism didn’t exist before 1911 it probably wasn’t being diagnosed a whole lot before then. But I would guess it went up as understanding and awareness of it grew, but there were definitely descriptions of people who met the criteria for it long before then.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autism

      • @[email protected]
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        213 hours ago

        I was wondering about that as I was furiously typing out my scathing sarcastic bullshit with a shit eating grin on my face.

    • @RamblingPanda
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      2422 hours ago

      Worm for a brain-Kennedy will make numbers go brrrrrrr

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    1122 hours ago

    Seeing the raw numbers is impactful and I would also like to see these figures as percentages of the whole since they’re comparing different times with different populations.

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      212 hours ago

      I was gonna say. The US population was 207M when I was born. It’s now 335M. I would expect percentages to be far more telling.

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    1023 hours ago

    Would be neat to see deaths or hospitalizations pre/post visualized this way too to really drive home the point for the “measles weren’t really that bad” crowd.