UK Mirror Article On Autism

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I read this article in the mirror a couple of days ago and wonder if there is any truth in it?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/advice/miriam/2 ... -23579333/

hi,

really seems to me that anything which comes to mind although totally clueless to them is written in the UK mirror.

actually i had to laugh... when i read the claim that "obesity" causes autism .... )


greets,
anton

They'll be blaming brocolli next...

But yeah I think autism is one of these conditions which has no explanation so people decide to make up an explanation. I don't think it is that simple really.

Also... autistic rats? Whut!?

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As articles go this sounds very very thin. Apart from the reference to more frequent diagnosis (which one would expect given that a coherent AS diagnosis wasn't really around before the early 80s) I'd say that the article is peppered with 'mays' and 'possibles'' .

Older or obese mothers or pregnant women on anti depressants lead to more premature births which in turn appears to have some ill-defined correlation with the prevalence of autism? Wow, a lot of the press's favourite targets all in the one theory.

I don't know what if any serious research is underlying this article. Happy to be corrected if someone knows about this research.

Look at it this way.

When I was 8 or 9 the world population was under 3 billion.

Recently it has hit 7 billion.

OMG not only have the obese depressed middle aged mothers increased autism by having premi babies but their premi babies turn out to be obese depressed middle aged women who are having more babies, who grow up to be...
Well you should get it by now.

Bigger population + broad autism spectrum = increase in autism.

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