what do u think CAUSES autism

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My son had a normal everything no injury at birth no epidural given to me breastfed past a year great diet and still had autism severest form level 3 lowest percentile. Autism runs in both mine and his dad’s side. Eg Every individual family nucleus within his dad’s extended family, even, has 1 severe autistic person.

I don't ever agree with the idea that it is food, parental trauma, anything but the way the brain was coded to develop. What I took from the article that made sense to me is that because autistics take in so much sensory and emotional empathy info and can get so overloaded, it translates into what could be perceived by others as ptsd symptoms. Different source, similar external symptoms.

It runs in my family for generations, from my great grandpa to grandpa, to my dad, to me, and my sons. Everyone seemed to have a brilliant mind which compensated for their lack of social skill (but there were arranged marriages), everyone except my little son, who has a regular brain and exhibit more classic autism symptoms. I do think toxic environment can exacerbate symptoms, and a supportive family can make one feel quite normal. Overall I'm not too concerned about what caused it, I doubt we can eliminate autism easily.

It is now thought by geneticists that DNA mutations can occur to the foetus after conception and before birth. This is now thought to explain why identical twins can be significantly different - and re autism, why one identical twin can be on the spectrum and the other not. The old assumption that both are subject to exactly the same conditions is a developing area of inquiry, and it is a very interesting one.

In my only family there is evidence of AS for five generations, the two before mine and the two after mine, and in the fifth generation (my grandchildren) there are one set of fraternal male twins. Both are AS though they manifest it in different ways. One is quite extroverted, very gifted in maths, science and athletic ability, and highly competitive and independent; the other is introverted with average scholastic ability, profoundly interested in the natural world, a gentle soul who does his best in everything and needs a lot of emotional support and reassurance. (Their parents are my NT daughter and my AS son-in-law), but as genes are inherited as well from grandparents, and of the 4 grandparents, 2 of us ,( the paternal grandfather and myself, the maternal grandmother) are on the spectrum, so I would say that in our family AS arises from genetics rather than any mutation after conception.

However given the explosion of new genetic knowledge in the past 15 years, I would think that the next ten years will see some extraordinary progress in building on the work to date in this field.

The mutation after conception theory is more compelling in the case of those families in whom no-one has AS and then it suddenly appears in one child. I look forward to more knowledge developing in this body of research.

Myself and my son both have autism although his is severe, and we both have the same genetic mutation that both his dad n brother do not have. It is the ‘9th chain’ apparently? They don’t know much about it.
If anyone knows anything about genetic mutations and autism plz enlighten me.
Keeping in mind I’m not too smart to know the scientific details.

My mother drank alcohol when she was pregnant with me but she drank when pregnant with my sister too but my sisters not autistic.