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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (4 children)

For reference. That middle blue spot is centered on the DFW metroplex. An area of over 8.4M people in the center. What that most likely means is there are a large number there that are undiagnosed likely due to political and educational reasons.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Nah, that's centered on Oklahoma. It includes DFW, but that's basically all of Oklahoma.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy shit man, yeah DFW is big but not that fucking big lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

DFW is big and getting bigger

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I am going with regional insurance/medical provider policy on coverage of the diagnosis. If an autism diagnosis gets more covered care, it's diagnosed more. If other diagnosis gets the patient the care that they need, it's another disease that overlaps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Maybe, or maybe it's environmental, or just statistically insignificant. With no further information on what their "confidence" is in, exactly, this is basically map gore.