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The commenter above was claiming that trauma causes autism, not the other way around. > it can often be trauma that causes the auto immunes... It’s hard to fin
by esperent 2y ago
The commenter above was claiming that trauma causes autism, not the other way around.
> it can often be trauma that causes the auto immunes... It’s hard to find a not traumatized autistic person
- kragen 2y agoI interpreted taurath to be saying that it is hard to untangle causality because autistic people are almost universally traumatized. Because we know autism causes trauma, it's very hard to tell if trauma causes autism. A slight variant on this is that we know that some of the symptoms of trauma and of autism are the same, and while these symptoms are often taken to be defining characteristics of the autism syndrome, it isn't at all clear that the etiology of autism causes them through any pathway causally independent of trauma. You'd need to find a lot of non-traumatized autistic people to be able to tell, and it's hard to find any.