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"It IS shocking how prevalent autism is in society compared to when I was in school in the 60s and 70s" A lot of cases were undiagnosed back then. A Lost Generation: Growing Up With Autism Before The "Epidemic" \| Kennedy Krieger Institute When she was born in 1968, autism was a diagnosis reserved for children with severe developmental delays.1 Experts believed autism affected only four or five out of every 10,000 children.2 Ms. Scriven was already an adult when American psychiatrists began expanding the borders of the diagnosis, moving first into the uncharted territory of atypical autism (Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified), and later, in 1994, into the milder Asperger's syndrome.3 As the definition expanded, so did the number of people diagnosed with it. Now one in 68 children has autism spectrum disorder, or ASD.