“Autism spectrum disorder spiked 175% among people in the U.S. from 2.3 per 1,000 in 2011 to 6.3 per 1,000 in 2022, researchers found. Diagnosis rates climbed at a faster rate among adults in their mid-20s to mid-30s in that period, according to a study published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.”
If what you’re referring to is behavioral problems, the more obvious explanation to me is that as kids spend less and less time being physically active, they become more restless and feel under-stimulated when they have to sit in school all day.
Don’t forget the chronic defunding of public schools, leading to less individualized attention and overall lower quality of staff
And the pandemic. The effects of the pandemic did a massive number on so many younger kids behaviorally.
So yeah, there are numerous reasons for the upswing in social and behavioral issues in kids over the last several years.
And the lack of parents at home during the day to parent, and the fact that those parents are exhausted at night when they both finish working.
We’ve really created a perfect storm of horrible conditions to raise healthy and well adjusted children
Not just behavioral, though that’s a component of it, but nonverbal, very very delayed motor skills, feeding difficulties, etc.