Why shouldn't ASD go extinct?

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25 Nov 2016, 7:34 am

Sorry for my sloppy thread title. I just want to know why preservation of autism and aspergers is considered more important for those unborn, instead of focusing efforts on those autistics already living, breathing today?

I'm just asking why. I also find it kind of weird that disabled groups support the Democrat party in the US, considering a lot of the disabled fear genocidal abortion. I don't have a strong opinion on this kind of abortion either way as much as I have about abortion in general.

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12 Dec 2016, 12:03 pm

K_Kelly wrote:

Well, The republican party is making life progressively harder for the disabled while the democratic, is not making it better or worse. Also if the republican is making it harder to raise children why are they Pro-Life more like Pro-Suicide.

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13 Dec 2016, 10:16 am

We tend to be very creative and unique, and very intelligent and talented when we find our calling. Would be sad to see us go. :c

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13 Dec 2016, 12:18 pm

Not a huge fan of preserving ASD in particular. Actually I kind of hate having it. Don't wish I was never born, but would happily take a cure knowing that it would cut a decade off my life if I knew it would make me "normal."

A HUGE fan of preserving human biodiversity, in general.

Just because these traits are a disadvantage now, doesn't mean that they always were and/or always will be.

Homogenous gene pools tend to either be capable of evolving very quickly (high rate of reproduction and short life cycle) or they don't do well when faced with bottleneck events.

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14 Dec 2016, 12:51 pm

It won't go extinct on its own, it's not mendellian. It's a combination of timing, predisposition, and enviromental factors.

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15 Dec 2016, 2:32 pm

johnnyh wrote:

It won't go extinct on its own, it's not mendellian. It's a combination of timing, predisposition, and enviromental factors.

What does that mean?

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17 Dec 2016, 8:08 pm

K_Kelly wrote:

johnnyh wrote:

It won't go extinct on its own, it's not mendellian. It's a combination of timing, predisposition, and enviromental factors.

What does that mean?

Autism has a genetic presdisposition, but there is no single gene that is inherited consistently. A person requires one or many of several different genes but needs some environmental factor when in the womb for disruption to take place and be born autistic. It's like schizophrenia or bipolar, it's complex and people are born to normal parents all the time.

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