Mastodawn

Demand for autism care is soaring

https://economist.com/united-states/2026/04/01/demand-for-autism-care-is-soaring-the-system-is-struggling-to-cope

Demand for autism care is soaring. The system is struggling to cope

Autism care has become a $4bn-$5bn business in America as diagnoses have quintupled over 20 years, straining state budgets and raising concerns about treatment quality.

The Economist

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msteffen

Earlier this week, the NYT also published this (to me, very moving) account of a nonverbal autistic man going to graduate school and publishing a novel: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/books/review/woody-brown-...

It's amazing how much we continue to learn about these conditions.

Doctors Believed Woody Brown Would Never Understand Language. He’s Publishing a Novel.

Doctors believed that Woody Brown would never be able to speak or process language. He went to graduate school and is publishing his debut novel.

The New York Times