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What causes autism? Environmental risks are hard to identify
- mhkool 11y agoI see so much misinformation about diseases that it makes me sad since the public is so misinformed. Go to the website of Dr Perlmutter to get a list of scientific articles about treatment of autism: http://www.drperlmutter.com/learn/studies/?study_tag=autism http://www.drperlmutter.com/learn/studies/?study_tag=autism In short: it is not genetic and treatments without horrible drugs already exist.
- EliRivers 11y agoPepeGomez, the other commenter, has made it clear that you're spouting nonsense. He's made it clear that it's a problem of not talking to children enough.
- PepeGomez 11y agoThat's not what I said. I said children not being to exposed to language, that is, other people talking. It's a well known thing that if language isn't acquired within a specific period, the window of opportunity closes and it's no longer possible to (fully) learn it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period#Linguistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period#Linguistics
- mhkool 11y agowikipedia only shows mainstream "common" knowledge. Dr Perlmutter refers to published peer-reviewed scientific articles which say that diet and microbiome are important factors and the articles show large improvements with diet change and probiotics, much larger than with drugs. So think again, or read the scientific articles.
- suneilp 11y agoWhy was this downvoted? Even if you don't believe in alternative modalities the link is actually quite interesting and so far the content presents some intriguing content.
- PepeGomez 11y agoChild abuse and neglect. Children left alone for lengthy times and not being exposed to enough language to learn it within the critical period = autism. Being raised by parents who are autistic themselves (which guarrantees extreme emotional neglect and abuse) = aspergers.
- EliRivers 11y agoI think you'll find that the other commenter, mkhool, has made it clear that you're spouting nonsense and it's a diet problem.
- PepeGomez 11y agoAsk anybody who works with autistic children. You won't find an autistic child whose parents aren't either mentally ill or autistic themselves.
- EliRivers 11y agoI'm sorry. I wasn't clear enough. The point I was really making was that you, him, and a thousand other misinformed idiots raised on a diet of Ted talks and the belief that complex problems can be solved with some kind of snappy single-action magic solution have no idea what you're talking about. Everything you come up with will have a counter-example and a means to demonstrate that you're talking nonsense, but we're sick of trying to deal with you. You reached your conclusions through something other than reason, so a reasonable discussion on the subject is impossible.
- PepeGomez 11y agoSo what hypotheses so far don't have a counter-example? Who exactly is "we"?
- EdiX 11y agoScott Alexander [1] allegedly works with autistic patients and has a different impression. My impression is that autism is an epistemologically unsound category, as if biologists had 'flying animal' as a category encompassing some insects, some birds and bats, with flying squirrels and frogs classified "in the flight spectrum". [1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/12/against-against-autism-cures/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/12/against-against-autism-...