It has the highest rates of all, apparently. The country I live in is 123 down the list.
North Korea as an example is among the lowest, but then there could be all sorts of unedifying reasons for that....
It has the highest rates of all, apparently. The country I live in is 123 down the list.
North Korea as an example is among the lowest, but then there could be all sorts of unedifying reasons for that....
Ridiculous! No mention of unicorns nor dragons - so you clearly can't appreciate the big picture.
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Hell no! Pushy mums come in all 'classes' - for sure - in my opinion.
Maybe because our health care is free at the point of service, so services are used more...? This means more diagnoses....? Just a thought.
This is simple. The UK is an excellent and arguably successful country so you would expect to see more autistic people within it, more unicorns per square mile than anywhere else on the planet and for it to be the only country that has a certifiable "kill" of a dragon.
Simples.
I don't see how Taiwan is reducing its autism rate by early intervention, as autism cannot be 'cured'. I presume what they are saying is that Taiwan is making autistic people less of a nuisance to everyone else. Perhaps for the Taiwanese no problematic behaviour for society = no autism,
The French will have very much lower rates of autism than the UK. Not for any genetic reason, but merely because the French medical and psychiatric communities are historically wedded to psychoanalysis. Also, the French prefer grand theorising over the empiricism and evidence-based approach found in Anglophone countries. French diagnostic rates are about 10-fold lower than they should be. See: https://theconversation.com/frances-autism-problem-and-its-roots-in-psychoanalysis-94210
But how has the UK arrived at that figure?
If they have taken it from the NHS it will likely only include NHS diagnoses, excluding those diagnosed privately and those sef-diagnosed. Each country may have different methods of counting and testing, so I don't think the chart can be taken as anything other than a rough guide.
Ben
A) autism is largely genetic so you would expect it to vary by ethnic group.
B) the likely stronger confounding factor is likely to be varying availability of diagnosis by country.
It’s not the percentage of the population, it’s how many have had access to an assessment. I would imagine North Korea would treat it as a mental illness.