(February 22, 2017 at 9:00 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: Actually, the increase in reporting has more to do with better methods for detection, and a less prejudicial attitude to certain mental conditions like autism. Very few autistic people cand do what you describe, that perception is very much an artefact of media misreporting and popular fiction, like Rain Man.
Yeah, I'm not putting too much trust in that one either. I didn't see an actual study when I first heard it. I don't care enough to look into it further, either, so I'm not about to believe it yet. If there's something solid there at all, I'll let the folks with the proper degrees pick it apart.
