Hmmm... Wonder what might be causing issues...

Ah yes, it's definitely not that most autism cases had been going undetected...

1/150 to 1/32. That's not just Diagnosis happening more, it's saturation of Autism. Autism was discovered in 1911 - and was defined thoroughly in 1943.

That's 57 years of Autism existing as a defined set of characteristics, before GMO became standard practice amongst the highest consumed vegetables in the US.

If you look at the 1980s - numbers were around .2 to .7 children per thousand. Meaning less than 1 per thousand. 1995 introduced the first GMO to public consumption. By the end of the 1990s - the number was 1 in 150.

Today it's 1 in 32.

You are right that diagnosis capabilities have increased with the knowledge and understanding of Autism, but that kind of upswing in numbers doesn't happen just because people got more informed. There's something else or a combination of something elses that have caused that situation.

Maybe we started diagnosing in the developing world?

What we did was increase awareness - which accounts for a small uptick in Autism per "X" amount of kids. That would be lkely to double the amount of diagnosis, sure. So seeing it go from say 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 500... Sure, that much of things can be attributed to awareness.

To go from 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 32 though - isn't because of awareness. That's engineering.

Let's put awareness in another situation - Corn per acre. If the entire small town had a good idea of how much corn per acre is being grown... Let's say that per acre - there are 25 bushels of corn on average. Take all the acres & count the corn... You have so many bushels of corn per acre.

Then suddenly the small town learns of a few new corn fields that nobody in the small town knew about, due to how the birds and the needs work, you would see an upswing in the amount of corn per acre. You could even easily see the bushels double to 50 bushels of corn on average per acre because of new information.

But to go from 25 bushels of corn per acre to 15,000 bushels of corn per acre, you're not talking about some birds and bees and people learning about new crops they didn't know existed... Those kinds of numbers only happen through agricultural engineering. Someone had to plant all of that and work the field to get it ready to get that kind of upswing.