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Brain clue may explain autism 'hug avoidance'

• thinkcomp 17y ago
  I would be the first to cheer if I thought some actual progress were being made with research, but this seems misleading. Fragile X syndrome is not autism, and autism is poorly defined to start with.
• wakeupthedawn 17y ago
  Why don't we just ask Carly Fleischmann? http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4311223&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4311223&page=1
• wglb 17y ago
  This story also referenced http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1119814 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1119814. This seems to be the source, although not referenced in TFA.
• theblackbox 17y ago
  I thought this was already widely accepted as simply a control issue? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hug_machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hug_machine http://www.grandin.com/inc/squeeze.html http://www.grandin.com/inc/squeeze.html
  • AndrewDucker 17y ago
    Just because something is widely accepted does not make it true.
    • theblackbox 17y ago
      This is a theory, by definition it is "widely accepted" until falsified or until a "better" theory is proposed.