America Out Loud PULSE

America Out Loud PULSE


The Autism Matrix, a semantic epidemic?

May 17, 2025

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Eyal pinned the rise on evolving diagnostic criteria. In 1943, Leo Kanner described autism as a severe condition, based on eleven children. By 1987, the DSM-III revised introduced a spectrum, loosening the criteria. Diagnoses spiked as parents began viewing behaviors, once quirks, as autistic traits. Eyal argued humans haven’t fundamentally changed; we’ve just renamed differences...