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- Recently, there has been increasing awareness about autism diagnoses and their complexity.
- At the same time, the United States federal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made several debated claims about autism prevalence.
- He has claimed that autism cases are on the rise, and that autism has become ‘an epidemic’.
- He also claimed that environmental toxins are to blame for autism.
- A board certified family medicine physician helps Medical News Today fact-check these claims.
Posts on social media platforms have recently boosted awareness and acceptance of autism, as users report their own experiences of receiving a diagnosis for, and living with this neurodevelopmental condition.
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Information Source: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com