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I respect Dr Peter Hotez - he's an autism dad. But he implies mom's the cause, ignoring the dad's contribution to #autism. In fact most autism comes from the father. His sperm's much more vulnerable & susceptible to mutation, and drugs - esp illicit drugs - are a prime cause of such mutations.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Autism/autism-linked-family-inherited-gene-mutations/story?id=16071503
https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/siblings-with-autism-share-more-of-fathers-dna-not-mothers/
@ginaintheburg It's just as likely to be both parents contributing. The blame game is futile, and harmful. #ActuallyAutistic people are forever fighting a very real prejudice against them. Autistic children need to be protected from ABA and 'cures'.
Knowledge is power. #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
⏚ ⸫ @Tooden @ginaintheburg And I'll add that: "The latest statistics released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that autism spectrum disorder increased by 23 percent from 2006 to 2008 to include nearly one in 88 children." says more about diagnosis and societal changes than the #actuallyAutistic population...
They've been trying to pin the ever increasing rate of autism on increases in diagnosis every since I can remember - at heart the 80s.
B. S.
I think the cause is environmental, not diagnostic bias or better diagnostics.
@ginaintheburg @ScriptFanix @Tooden None of the autistics I've met who were alive in the 80's were diagnosed in the 80’s.
@ginaintheburg @ScriptFanix @Tooden They were autistic in the 80's, though.
@BernieDoesIt I'm pretty damn sure my mother was autistic, and my dad was audhd. Both masked heavily, of course. They were born in the 1920s. Chances are they inherited from 'their' parents...long before vaccinations or food additives were a thing. @ginaintheburg @ScriptFanix
@Tooden @BernieDoesIt @ginaintheburg @ScriptFanix
Damn sure my father, born in the 30's, was as autistic as I am, born in the 60's. The only reason neither of us were diagnosed was because we didn't fit the criteria at the time. And I turned up at school waving what would now be considered so many red flags, it was untrue. Increased awareness and availability of that information, explains everything.
@pathfinder Exactly. Eugenics is never going to become a thing of the past while people are ignorant of the ways that the spectrum works. But, there is also that disability stigma. The fear and horror of disability that is entrenched in the NT mind. What's happening in the USA at present, and to a lesser extent in the UK, is the deliberate attempt to erase the elderly, disabled, and 'different', through the defunding and shutting down of programs that assist them. #Evil @BernieDoesIt @ginaintheburg @ScriptFanix
@Tooden @BernieDoesIt @ginaintheburg @ScriptFanix
I'm afraid to say you're right. In part it's the covid classic again of, if there is no tests then it means there's no problem and we don't have to do anything.
The thought that difference may be common is certainly something that the hierarchical minded are not comfortable with.