Study: Where Dad Works May Increase Risk of Autism

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Study: Where Dad Works May Increase Risk of Autism in Kids

https://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/ ... 55089.html

Oh no got to the part where they used anti-social wrong so not sure I can read the rest of the article. Anti-social does not mean keeping to ones self it more means not caring how you effect other people....like if someone is anti-social they might say hurtful things and not care that it hurts peoples feelings, or might even find it entertaining if it provokes people. The context they used it in was way off so article already seems not to credible....

As for the study it seems they didn't really find anything too substantial just that people working in technical fields might be more likely to have autistic kids due to parents in those fields maybe having autistic trats that pass down to the child and cause more severe autism in them...also its most likely there are multiple factors rather than a single cause of the disorder.

No one is perfect. It's a popular article, not a medical journal.

You are right, asocial was the better word for this context.




The article isn't surprising, but it does help look at jobs beyond the scientist/mathematician/engineer ideas before it. Many technical jobs aren't those.

My dad is a scientist, my mom was a programmer. That's clear. I had an increased risk of ASD then. My job is nontechnical (though I do my best to make it so ). My husband's is technical, but not in the scientist/math/engineer/etc. realm. My son's AS is less severe than mine.

I think their study is a bit askew, whats more likely happening is those men are exposed to more people and their confined with them in their jobs, so likely something more biological is being exchanged.

Okay, so how is "health care" a job sector that is "not people-oriented"? People working in labs would seem to be a very small subgroup of people working in health care ...