“Rising ADHD and Autism Rates Reflect Education — Not a Crisis”

In a new initiative in the field of psychiatry, the government will establish special ADHD and autism clinics in regional psychiatry, so that citizens who currently wait a long time will be assessed more quickly and receive help.

“Rising ADHD and Autism Rates Reflect Education — Not a Crisis”

The Make America Healthy Again Commission calls autism and ADHD “health burdens” whose rising rates of diagnosis “pose a dire threat to the American people and our way of life.” This alarmist rhetoric around neurodivergence — from President Donald Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and others in positions of tremendous power and influence — has set up a dangerous premise: that being autistic, ADHD, or otherwise ne…