• @banshee
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      34 days ago

      Yep. They’re coming back in a big fuckin’ way.

    • @rockSlayer
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      184 days ago

      Even if there was, I’m much happier being autistic than I would be dead.

      • @[email protected]
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        4 days ago

        I’d much prefer my children alive and autistic than dead (or debilitatingly disabled) too.

        There’s something weird about people who seem to think the other way around.

    • @AbidanYre
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      144 days ago

      Given that the term autism didn’t exist before 1911 it probably wasn’t being diagnosed a whole lot before then. But I would guess it went up as understanding and awareness of it grew, but there were definitely descriptions of people who met the criteria for it long before then.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autism

      • @[email protected]
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        24 days ago

        I was wondering about that as I was furiously typing out my scathing sarcastic bullshit with a shit eating grin on my face.

  • @[email protected]
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    114 days ago

    Seeing the raw numbers is impactful and I would also like to see these figures as percentages of the whole since they’re comparing different times with different populations.

    • SpaceFox:3
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      12 hours ago

      You sent me a private message earlier. I would like to talk to you more however I’m not comfortable showing my face to anyone.

    • @shalafi
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      24 days ago

      I was gonna say. The US population was 207M when I was born. It’s now 335M. I would expect percentages to be far more telling.

  • @[email protected]
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    114 days ago

    Would be neat to see deaths or hospitalizations pre/post visualized this way too to really drive home the point for the “measles weren’t really that bad” crowd.