Autism Diagnoses Spiked After COVID-19, But Probably Not For The Reason You Think Autism diagnoses rose sharply after the COVID-19pandemic began, but the pattern may not mean that autism itself suddenly became more common. The rise was driven overwhelmingly by diagnoses among girls and women, while rates among boys and men remained stable or declined. So what caused this to happen? A new study published in JAMA Network Opensuggests that many of these girls and women may simply have gone unrecognized in the past. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2851930
I developed long Covid and some of my neurodivergent symptoms had always been settling under the surface. Now that I’ve gotten long Covid along with many other diagnoses that go along with it such as pots, mast cell activation syndrome, and MECFS. We are finding out that many of us with neurodivergence developed these disorders after getting Covid.