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what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago? (lemmy.eco.br)

submitted 1 year ago by Phen@lemmy.eco.br to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All sources I could find point to 15% to 20% of the population being neurodiverse with only a small fraction of this being people in the autism spectrum (around 1% of the total population). So even accounting for under diagnosing there's no way that's true.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

and even if it were true, it isn't accepted as a mundane fact now. Maybe jmcs is from 2123 and your reaction is what they were talking about tho

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OTOH "spectrum" is such a vague term that you could claim everyone is somewhere on it, even if it's almost always the bottom end.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Categories only make sense if they are useful, and if you make them so imprecise that they include everyone then they are useless.

By expanding the criteria for the autism spectrum to include everyone that displays even a single trait associated with autism we would be doing a disservice to the people that display a larger amount of those traits (i.e. the ones that are on the spectrum with the current consensus), since they would be invisible in the midst of everyone else.