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Do we even know if it is the risk of it or just a correlation? E.g. older parents could have more resources to get their kids to therapist where they get diagno

Do we even know if it is the risk of it or just a correlation? E.g. older parents could have more resources to get their kids to therapist where they get diagnosed? And so older parents will have higher likelihood of having kids with autism? Or maybe it is hereditary and fathers prone to autism are less likely to get children earlier in their life. It makes sense if you consider social awkwardness part of autism. Everytime I see research on those subjects it seems like those correlations could be explained away by also 1000 different factors. To me intuitively it feels like ADHD and Autism in many cases are largely just natural variance because of evolutionary process, seen as something wrong due to environment having been changed. And a lot of the research seems to make claims on just correlation. I have ADHD diagnosis and I almost got Autism diagnosis and multiple doctors have noted I have autistic tendencies, but I think it is just trade offs. It is where you direct your limited mental resources to. Sometimes it is acceptable to current society, sometimes not. To sum up both diagnosis for me seem to be because I have easier time to focus on other things that most other people can't while I have harder time focusing on what is easy for most.

faeriechangling 3y ago
I find the peculiar thing about ADHD and Autism is they can be imposed. As in, if you make less eye contact than others, have fewer deeper interests, and a few other traits you are treated as PERMANENTLY disordered from the date of your diagnosis. Such things are very unacceptable to society appearantly. > To sum up both diagnosis for me seem to be because I have easier time to focus on other things that most other people can't while I have harder time focusing on what is easy for most. If you read the criteria for both diagnosis’s, they both have nothing to do with you having positive traits, even if you do have positive traits which come hand in hand with positive ones, it’s simply not considered. I find it entirely ridiculous really and it’s comical how often Autism in particular is portrayed alongside savant traits. There is something deeply distorted about considering somebody disordered or not based on the sum of their weaknesses.

faeriechangling 3y ago

I find the peculiar thing about ADHD and Autism is they can be imposed. As in, if you make less eye contact than others, have fewer deeper interests, and a few other traits you are treated as PERMANENTLY disordered from the date of your diagnosis. Such things are very unacceptable to society appearantly. > To sum up both diagnosis for me seem to be because I have easier time to focus on other things that most other people can't while I have harder time focusing on what is easy for most. If you read the criteria for both diagnosis’s, they both have nothing to do with you having positive traits, even if you do have positive traits which come hand in hand with positive ones, it’s simply not considered. I find it entirely ridiculous really and it’s comical how often Autism in particular is portrayed alongside savant traits. There is something deeply distorted about considering somebody disordered or not based on the sum of their weaknesses.