My Mom Thinks that Three Mile Island Accident Causes Autism

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But wasn't Autism around even before nuclear reactors?

Autism has been around for millennia....

Well, the rate of autism increased more recently. So its possible autism is an equation of several variables. Some of the variables were around for millenia, while others are more rencent -- which would explain why autism was around for millenia yet its rate has increased. The question is: "which" of the more recent variables play a role and is radioactivity one of them? That I am not sure of.

But of course the other explanation might be that the rate of autism in the past was the same as it is now, it is simply being diagnosed more often. That would be for two reasons. One is that people are more willing to diagnose everything in general (which doesn't have to be just autism but can also be a bunch of other things like ADHD, personality disorders, etc). The other factor might be that in the past society used to be a lot more cultured while nowdays it doesn't care about intellect any more and a lot more oriented towards shallow things -- and that would imply that autistics would have had easier time fitting in in the past then they do fitting in today.

But then again, its also possible that it is a combination of both factors. On the one hand, in today's society autistics stand out more but, on the other hand, the rate of autism increased as well due to environmental things (and radioactivity might and might not be one of them).

Autism was once uncommon because the few people who had it were usually locked up in asylums, never again allowed to see the light of day, which prevented this hideous disease from spreading.

And let's not forget autism is also a punishment from God for vaccinating your kids.

You are assuming that autistic children always have autistic parents, which is not true. Sometimes parents have only shaddow signs, and those wouldn't be the things they would hospitalize you for.

You should also keep in mind that over-hospitalization is the thing about America in the 60-s. In the third world countries there is an opposite issue: they don't hospitalize even when they should, since they don't have enough money or manpower. So how do you know that several centuries ago it was similar to America in the 60-s as opposed to third world?



I don't follow your logic here. From your sarcasm it sounds like you don't believe it is due to vaccination. But if you don't believe it, how does it answer the question regarding the reason why autism wasn't as common in the past? In this case you are only confirming my point that we should look at other factors, which is what I was doing.

By the way I didn't say that vaccines don't cause autism, just like I didn't say that they do. I am simply saying I can't follow what is it you are trying to say.