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There's a good podcast I follow that covered this. Diagnosis rates in elderly residential homes are similar to children by today's standards.
More or Less: Behind the Stats: Factchecking the Trump administration’s Autism claims
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0lfglxt
Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0lfgf97.mp3
Why are people going against autistic people?
Because the right wants to make its ignorant followers believe someone is worse than them so that they won't feel as bad when they themselves are treated like shit by their own party.
Easy target.
Different = wrong = bad