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Felinity
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03 Apr 2008, 2:08 am

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditio ... index.html

I just saw this is the news today. Fascinating article!



stripey
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03 Apr 2008, 2:48 am

Quite ironic that a woman does not need a man to have a child, hence no emotional, stressful relationships.And has an autistic child who will feel no need for relationships either.



Kinda paints a picture of the way the human race is going.



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03 Apr 2008, 11:24 am

Bollocks!
Of course autistic kids have emotional relationships.
Interesting article. Wonder what was going on genetically... not something easily transferred to other cases of autism, as 50% chance of this donors children having autism in NOT how it usually works. But it would be interesting to find the gene, and see if it plays a role, along with other genes, in other cases of autism.