Why are a large population of people suddenly okay with having autism?

[Anonymous]

I understand that there’s nothing wrong with being autistic or on the spectrum but it’s odd seeing how many people are more willing and open about having ASD. Back in the day, people hated claiming things like that. Everyone thought any diagnosis like that meant you were “slow” or a “retard”. Now everyone, even popular kids from high school are coming out as being autistic and late diagnosed.

[ohsheeT]

Well even better yet what is causing it is something in our foods or water our air it's something that is deforming our genes and then we're having offspring this is what we have to find out what's going on

I think autism is a form of genius almost in so many different ways but I want to know what is happening in our bodies that is causing this

[KostasKouvalis]

There's affirmative action for autists now. I can't find it now, but I had a discussion on here before about how the world would be a better place if it was run by Asperger's people and Autism was the norm and status quo. People wouldn't be so serious all the time, and see the bad in everything. More things would be normalized.

[HelpfulWoman]

because its now understood better for one, and there's many "ways" of being autistic since it's a spectrum.

[exitseven]

We need to figure out exactly what is in the environment that causes Autism. 1 iin 88 are diagnosed with it. That should be unacceptable.

[jahaims]

Social stigmas change obviously