UCLA study finds Autism and Air Pollution link

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/1 ... 53542.html
Just heard this news on the BBC tonight and found this report online. Any thoughts out there? Unfortunately, this makes sense to me...could it be a combination of genetic vulnerability, chemical triggers and the psychophysical insults of city life?

Everyone knows... it's something in the water.

Los Angeles and all the big Cities of China should be loaded down with Auties.

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It's not something in the water, it's in the air...most likely related to automobile traffic. And I would not be surprised at a higher incidence of auties in big cities...as to the issue of prevalence in places like China - given the lack of transparency in the social statistics there, I doubt we'll find out any time soon. Also, there may be a different social response to the patterns of neurological development that spectrumites exhibit in non-western cultures. Heck, there are huge differences in the various treatments that autists receive in the West (like the packing treatments in France)...

A study like this might also explain the wide variance in reported levels of incidence. I've seen it go from 1 in 150 back in the nineties, to 1 in 88, all the way up to 1 in 50 nowadays...maybe it's not just who and how we test - but also where the testing occurs. So a sampling in Los Angeles or Beijing would show a higher rate than one in a cleaner more rural environment...