There are kids who are are independant and almost functionally neurotypical, they probably don't even need "helpers", but still need assistance that they wouldn't get if they didn't get a dx under the "old" definitions
It's like a cross between everyone at a bank being a VP and your doctor being a bro and prescribing you viagra for blood pressure so insurance picks up the tab.
I feel like that’s true for a lot of these categories. I feel like severity of illness is really important when talking about mental disorders since the spectrum is so wide.
It's now ASD or "Autism Spectrum Disorder" and it much better describes the broad range of impacts the disability can have because it really is a spectrum; all the way from non-verbal to the mild, but real impact it has on social development, communication and interactions and putting a label on it means access to help
Media sites in particular used to try to drive people to click the Like button, causing their articles to appear prominently on Facebook. And since it was an <iframe> running on every site, Facebook would automatically know what articles you viewed, data that they could use to target ads to you.
How/why did that die out, I wonder?
Also..
* In that time we moved from desktop to mobile; clicking that tiny button was difficult on mobile and they couldn't replace it with a comparable mechanic
* Changes to third-party cookie and XHR rules in browsers made the data less reliable
Microsoft CDN
There, that's it. You're selling it to (hopefully) technical people