The latest statistics tell us that one child out of 59 (or 1.7% of the total) today receives a diagnosis of autism. As I explain in more detail in my book Eccentrico, I do not believe in the conspiracy of the “autism epidemic”, while I am convinced (with a good part of the scientific community, see notes below) that the overwhelming majority of this increase in ASD diagnoses can be explained by the broadening of diagnostic criteria (which today also …