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I can find only two references to autism:

"Autism spectrum disorders had the highest prevalence in high-income countries, including the United States, in 2021. Similarly, autoimmune diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis, and multiple sclerosis are more commonly diagnosed in high-income areas such as Europe and North America. Overall, the global comparison data demonstrates that the health of Americans is on an alarming trajectory that requires immediate action."

This looks like it is comparing ASD with auto-immune diseases*, and is something that needs to be prevented and/or treated.

"Autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 in 36 children in the United States — a staggering increase from rates of 1 to 4 out of 10,000 children identified with the condition during the 1980s."

No mention of changes to diagnostic criteria or any change in how the condition is viewed.

Soon after this is said:

"This poses a dire threat to the American people and our way of life."

A bit of an aside, but I find it interesting that that sentence is immediately followed by:

"Seventy-seven percent of young adults do not qualify for the military based in large part on their health scores."

Is that how we're measuring the quality of people's lives, their ability to enter the military?

* I initially typoed this as "auti-immune disease". Yikes. 😬