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it was unknown in the homeland. Somalia's child mortality under five is 20 times that of the US - it was, for many years, one of the most troubled spots on ear

• tsol 4y ago
  You'd still expect to see some autistic people, unless for some reason autistic people died more often. I don't see any reason for that though
  • pvg 4y ago
    Click through to the graph, we're talking about an environment in which nearly 20% of children did not survive to age five. For 30 years.
  • orwin 4y ago
    I read a lot of Pierre Loti books, on rural Brittany pre-industrialization, i can totally understand how non functioning autistic children would die between the age of two to ten more easily than Asperger or non autistic children. In fact, any dyspraxic child in a coastal village would likely drown at a certain point.