Autism’s Exponential Rise Is Real

Drawing on decades of studies, administrative records (notably California Developmental Services) and recent CDC summaries, the author argues that autism rates have increased in a genuine, exponential fashion starting with children born in the late 1980s rather than merely reflecting diagnostic relabeling. The piece assembles observational, administrative, and epidemiological lines of evidence to claim the rise is a true public‑health phenomenon that has accelerated into the present. — If true, this reframes autism as an ongoing environmental or developmental epidemic with large implications for research funding, regulation of exposures, and health‑service planning.