Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Autism Link

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Women with polycystic ovary syndrome more likely to have a child with autism - University at Cambridge

Is there anything that hasn't been linked to Autism through one study or another?

Interesting study. My mom has PCOS. That doesn’t mean that is a causation, but if researchers found a link, I’ll believe it to be a correlation to an extent.

I once tried to compile a list, then I gave up. Anywhere from mother obesity to air pollution. I just typed "autism smoking" now into Google and surely enough it says "Smoking during pregnancy may up autism risk in grandchildren...". Grandchildren!? OK, I typed now "autism eating meat", guess what? I found a paper with the title: "Autism prevalence and meat consumption -a hypothesis that needs to be tested." I typed in "autism prevalence sugar consumption" and found "SUGAR CAUSES AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS, Dr Michael Colgan 10 May 2015." OK, sugar... then why not salt? Sure, here is a study: "New insights into the mystery of autism: Could it be caused at birth by salt in the nerves?" I mean, virtually anything you can think of, people have linked them to autism.

What people haven't done is to explore the WHY of autism. I mean, the purpose of autism. See, color blindness is perfectly explained by its battlefield advantage of seeing through enemy camouflage. (That is why it is linked to male humans mostly.) It serves an evolutionary advantage. Study on remaining hunter-gatherer societies in the world that have never undergone agriculture (hence no bows and arrows or warfare) (e.g. in Africa, Americas, Australia) reveals that the prevalence rate of color blindness in these populations is either very low or exactly zero. I mean, those kinds of studies would make much more sense to me, than the gazillion of research studies linking autism to one thing or another. See, from the square root law and prevalence rates of color blindness, autism (in its BAP form) and bipolar disorder, there is strong suggestion that all three conditions happened around the same time in history, right after the invention of bows and arrows (and the subsequent emergence of agriculture to compensate for dwindling animal meat supply.)

Before jumping on all those medical/genomic research studies, people really ought to explore that autism, maybe, just maybe, is something intended by Mother Nature, and that has been with us ever since we started warfare (and thus "civilization". If you think about it, civilization is all about warfare, resources, taxes.) To me, it is very clear that color blindness, autism, and bipolar disorder, all entered human race at the same time and serve the same purpose: to increase the survival probability of human clans, in wars.

Research in this direction actually can reveal supporting evidences. Like the case of color blindness and how researchers found hunter-gatherer clans just don't have many color blind people. Similarly, in autism, we know Hispanics have lower prevalence rate of autism. We also know that autism rate is higher in certain immigrant mother groups. Things like that. Those are all clues that can help us validate/pinpoint the precise purpose of autism in human history. All, without the need of studying genomics. Sure, genomics will eventually be useful: to validate what we have already found through other means.

The thing is, humans think they are smarter than Mother Nature. They don't learn. Nazi Germany killed or sterilized virtually all schizophrenic people that they could find. One generation later, the schizophrenia incidence rate in Germany was actually... HIGHER than neighboring countries. Nahh... Mother Nature is not dumb: she's had 4 billion years to do evolution. Genomic studies in humans barely has had a history of 15 years. I think our genomics researchers are pretty dumb, in comparison.