> because our diagnostic threshold for tallness has lowered?
The threshold for being diagnosed as autistic has increased in recent years. As Asperger is not a separate diagnosis anymore but is part of ASD, some people that might have gotten an Asperger diagnosis would not get an ASD diagnosis today.
Again, a diagnosis requires that you have care needs. If you don't, you will not be diagnosed. There is no slippery slope of lowering standards.
There have always been neurodivergent people. Not long ago, here in Germany autistic children were systematically murdered during the Nazi regime.
The difference is that neurodivergent people don't have to hide anymore as much. We finally have at least a bit of a voice.
> Again, a diagnosis requires that you have care needs. If you don't, you will not be diagnosed. There is no slippery slope of lowering standards.
I don't understand how a slippery slope of lowering standards and not diagnosing anyone unless they have care needs are mutually exclusive. Our standard of care for basically everything has increased. I think you and I both agree that autistic people in the 1960s were less well cared for than in the 1990s, and that treatment has further improved today.
> There have always been neurodivergent people. Not long ago, here in Germany autistic children were systematically murdered during the Nazi regime...The difference is that neurodivergent people don't have to hide anymore as much. We finally have at least a bit of a voice.
This is interesting, because I agree with every individual statement, but it's still not supporting evidence for a change in diagnostic threshold.
The threshold for being diagnosed as autistic has increased in recent years. As Asperger is not a separate diagnosis anymore but is part of ASD, some people that might have gotten an Asperger diagnosis would not get an ASD diagnosis today.
Again, a diagnosis requires that you have care needs. If you don't, you will not be diagnosed. There is no slippery slope of lowering standards.
There have always been neurodivergent people. Not long ago, here in Germany autistic children were systematically murdered during the Nazi regime.
The difference is that neurodivergent people don't have to hide anymore as much. We finally have at least a bit of a voice.