Op-Ed: My Journey to Understanding My Son's Autism

The diagnosis increased almost 6000% in the last 30 years, according to psychiatrist Christian Plebst. In dialogue with Infobae, on the previous World Autism Awareness Day, he described the factors that explain this phenomenon and the role of screens

Op-Ed: My Journey to Understanding My Son's Autism

https://www.horndiplomat.com/feed/ By: Mohamed Dhoore My son, Yaqub, was born on January 17, 2015, at North Middlesex Hospital in London. He arrived as a healthy baby, weighing 3.98 kg and showed no immediate concerns. However, by the time he reached nine months, I noticed that he was not crawling or standing, and his eye contact was limited. […] The post Op-Ed: My Journey to Understanding My Son’s Autism appeared first on Horn Diplomat.

On the eve of World Autism Awareness Day, held on 2 April, the well-known infanto-juvenile psychiatrist Christian Plebst pointed out that “autism can be considered a pandemic” due to a marked increase in its diagnosis over the past three decades. According to Plebst, in the 1990s there was one case of autism for every 2,500 children, while at present the figure is one in 36, representing an increase of almost 6000%. This increase cannot be attri…