Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

CDC's Alarming Autism Prediction_ 1 in 2 by 2031 | The Truth About Neurodivergent Kids

11 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a spoken transcript in which the speaker cites a CDC prediction that by 2031 autism prevalence will reach 1 in 2 children; the speaker contrasts this with a current prevalence claim (1 in 36) and characterizes autism as multifactorial with risk increasing as genetic variants accumulate, noting a similar pattern for ADHD.

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1 in 2 children (CDC prediction).

1 in 36.

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We are moving. By 2031, one in two children will be born with autism. That's what CDC predicts. Right. Current trend right now. Current Trend right now. One in 36 right now. And in boys, I believe it's one to two, one and two. So we have a short window. And you know, there's lots of reasons why it's multifactorial. There's no one reason. Don't think there's one reason. And this is an autism gene, by the way. What the research does say, it's the same stacking of variants. That's what they see. It's not the same variants, but the more genetic variants you have, the greater propensity likelihood that you might have autism. Right. And the same thing with ADHD.