My last comment, I put this under the wrong article. It was suppose to go under Katie Wright's article: Raw Truth About Autism Diagnosis and the Affect on Mental Health of the Parents"

For this article ; I read here, and several different other places ; I noticed in several article it was mentioned something about autism manifested as a regressive encephalopathy .

What is regressive encephalopathy - I mean I know encephalopathy, but regressive? Does it mean that it goes away, or lessens with time, and yet leaves possible damage?

The Age of Autism began in 1987, the year after the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was passed, giving vaccine liability protection to pharma manufacturers for the first time. Prior to that date, the "autism" rate was 1/ 10,000 - 100,000. Very few had heard of it, much less knew anyone with it. Special Ed college courses only taught about Down's syndrome because that was the majority of the special ed school population at that time. Nothing was taught about "Autism" because the numbers were miniscule. I personally never heard of it or knew anyone with it during my schooling from the 60's to the 70's. Mark Blaxill co-published a peer reviewed paper (article featured in AOA) with statistics showing a hockey stick graph which began it's exponential climb after 1987. From 1987-2000, ObGyn doctors would only let a pregnant woman take prenatal vitamins. No other medications were recommended because they knew most crossed the palcenta. I was horrified when they started vaccinating pregnant women. This could be another cause for such an escalated rise in the recent numbers. This has nothing to do with genetics. Genetics would not cause a hockey stick graph.

"Guangdong Pharmaceutical University in China....The team believes this is due to better screening and diagnosis."

Meet the new Poul Thorsen. LOL!

"Since ADDM rates are based on eight-year-old children and typically take four years to process and publish, this current study is more timely and possibly more accurate."

This is significant. More cases are diagnosed by age 4. Why is the spread ages 3-17? Where is the rate breakdown by age? By switching to the 3 year age in 2019, more children would show up by 2020 at age 4. But they hide which age is driving the increase. Also, 2019 was the last "normal" year before Covid. 2020 was the year of lockdowns where fewer went to get their childhood vaccines on time and fewer would have been able to be seen for a diagnosis. Would the numbers be even higher? 2021 is the year the adult Covid jabs were rolled out and 2022 is the year they were rolled out to 6 months and up. I wonder how they will report those numbers for these years? I am sure Fauci will think of something.
2026 is the year to watch. The newly Covid vaxxed kids will turn 4. Will the total population have dropped by then?

Here we go again with "autism" over diagnosis! The developmental disability services organizations like the Regional Centers are already full even here in California. Even Epilepsy and Cerebral Palsy the other qualifying diagnosis are over diagnosed not to the same level of autism but still...
The CDC and Big Pharma loves over-diagnosis but big pharma will not help with research and development for expensive but low profit medicine and surgical procedures that help people with seriously mental illnesses and serious mentally retardation because it does not make them the same level of money from cheap to make common medicines they do from malingering ADHD and Bipolar for example.