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Risk of early death is double for autistic young people, ‘scary’ new research finds (www.rnz.co.nz)
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Autistic children and young adults are more than twice as likely to die before their 25th birthday, compared to their non-autistic peers, new research shows.

The study, published this week in the international academic journal Autism, tracked 857,944 children born in Aotearoa - including 11,919 autistic children - between 1996 and 2010 using individual-level data from the government's Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI).

It found autistic females were four times more likely to die, compared to non-autistic females

This article is actually from last week but I only just came across it.

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[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

And here I was thinking it was about accidents and self harm... Sheesh, it's a mess