Are you denying that autism exists?
I have three children, and one is obviously slightly autistic. She is in the top 99% of her age group for recognizing patterns and for her spatial memory, but she has social difficulties. She would be classified as gifted in public school and also put in some kind of Special Ed. Thankfully we are able to homeschool and we have positive social interactions with various small groups. When swaths of people have the exact same symptoms, it's a fairly straightforward diagnosis. And it helps greatly to know what she's feeling and how she's processing things, it doesn't hurt.
One set of grandparents told me to beat my daughter black and blue for her "bad behavior." I've been told by her other set of grandparents that she also must be demon-possessed, because she has "aspie eyes." You know what? I recognize her for what she CAN accomplish and I try very hard to strengthen her skills in those areas. And I stay away from people who have no idea how complicated the human brain is.
I wrote exactly what I wrote, neither more nor less.
DO NOT DARE to read into it what I did NOT write.
Now, do you have a meaningful reply to my comment, or are you just venting?
I don’t know anything about autism but anyone who would tell you to mistreat your daughter in that way has something very wrong with them.
I think his/her observation is that diagnoses of autism is up.
Prior to 1990s, autism was considered very very very rare. In the last couple of years, I have had the pleasure of teaching gardening to children (whole school districts of children), and have been astonished at the high percentage of children with autism.