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As the below article (in turn pointing to some <i>LA Times<\/i> research) indicates. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/12\/17\/are-there-more-people-with-aut.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter'>Are there more people with autism, or more people diagnosed with autism? &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s easy to say that someone does, or does not, have, say, a broken bone. Or measles. When it comes to something like autism, though, which lacks concrete diagnostic factors (it depends on behavioral observations and judgments, not on culturing things or X-rays or looking at blood under a microscope), it&#39;s not so clear a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/17\/autism-diagnosis-and-social-factors.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Autism, diagnosis, and social factors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12,70],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-health-science","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27291,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/thanks-heaps-donald.html","url_meta":{"origin":24634,"position":0},"title":"Thanks heaps, Donald","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Apr-12 10:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, many thanks to Donald Trump for adding to the number of kids who will not get needed vaccines, thus increasing the chances that they and others around them will catch preventable diseases that can cripple or kill. 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