More U.S. adults than ever before have autism, and many are being diagnosed not as children, but in later years. While the data don’t pinpoint how many people are over age 18 when diagnosed, clinical psychologists say many more adults are seeking evaluations for autism than a decade ago. “We have adults reaching out every week,” said Paige Siper, chief psychologist at the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Overall, the rate of autism in people 18 or older more than doubled between 2011 and 2019, from 4.2 per 1,000 to 9.5 per 1,000, according to an analysis of Medicaid data published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry in 2023.
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