There is no one cause or cure for humanity, for autism, for the wonderous divergence that we are as a people, and if you believe that there is, you are confusing that with enslavement.

or in others we have coddled the problem rather than finding a true treatment but you cannot fix the fundamental nature of humanity in that we are all just a little fucked up.

and crazy and beautiful and terrible and wonderful all at the same time. So, of course, there are going to be more diagnoses because we are still growing our knowledge base.

Now, you can debate the approach to treatment. Perhaps, in some situations we've relied on medication to heavily or

But this means we have also identified behavioral problems, and some we can fit in a box and some we can't, and that's kind of the point. We are still learning. In the past 30 years, we've made a lot of progress, but we are still identifying these things that make us different,

of autism "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SIT STILL OR I'LL BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!!!" in leiu of a more nuanced approach.

We have classified different aspects of human behavior, and lo and behold, we have a lot of neurodivergence among us, and it turns out thats kind of what makes people different.