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Yeahp, I was explicitly referring to the young.
I think these problems do go underdiagnosed at large scale, but when half a classroom "thinks" that they "might be" autistic, then clearly it's an issue of mentality.
It is half the classroom, or is it more like 5%? Because the autistic rate is somewhere around 2%, so you would probably expect a slightly higher rate of people to guess they're autistic when you're dealing with a population known for struggling to understand themselves.
That's the core of my statement, if it's only 5% then that's good and we can work with that. If it's half then something is wrong with what the class thinks.
You're not making any sort of factual statement, you're making a series of suppositions about people you've not met without any underlying evidence or even a firm idea on what problem you say you're identifying.
You're sharing your (uninformed) opinion and expecting others to give it weight.
They're neither factual statements, nor suppositions. They're conditional statements.
This person is stating a fact about the overall landscape of the possible realities.
IF we ever find ourselves in a situation where 50% of people think they might be autistic, THEN we have a problem with the mentality.
The word IF removes a clause from the role of assertion.
The opinion is the entire IF-THEN connection, not any of the clauses inside it.