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Wasn't there a theory that autism was affected by ultrasounds during pregnancy?
by mkoubaa 3y ago
Wasn't there a theory that autism was affected by ultrasounds during pregnancy?
- HeatrayEnjoyer 3y agoWouldn't everyone be autistic by now?
- mkoubaa 3y agoAffected by != Cause
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoOn the Internet it increasingly feels like that… (…yeahyeah, selection bias, etc)
- nradov 3y agoThere was never such a theory. At one point a few researchers had a hypothesis that fetal ultrasounds might cause autism, however multiple studies have failed to turn up any causative relationship. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12998 https://doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12998
- mkoubaa 3y agoThank you for the clarification!
- reilly3000 3y agoIt’s strongly correlated with genetics down to a handful of SNPs. There is also a lot of evidence to suggest physiological differences in amygdala mass as well as hormone production. No exterior factor has been proven. No scapegoat is needed either, autists tend to like who they are and have unique and important value.
- sentfromrevolut 3y ago[flagged]
- Nasrudith 3y agoOr parents desperately trying to make it 'not their fault' from it being genetic. The wild-ass guessing popular for it screams motivated reasoning for "anything but genetic".
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- mkoubaa 3y agoI don't intend to scapegoat. I'm on the spectrum and I'm grateful for who I am