digger1 wrote:
if, when I was a child and I played with elemental mercury, could it have effected me in some way?
Yes.
digger1 wrote:
I remember that my folks used to never really mind if I played with the mercury from broken thermometers and whatnot. Could it have caused various things like ADHD, Aspergers and such?
No.
The famous experiments with mercury simply said that it was possible to duplicate the effects of autism in rats with extended doses of mercury.... but what does that really mean...
- That rats didn't start lining things up or sorting them into colours.
- The rats didn't lose the ability to empathise with other rats...
nope... they just started stimming and rocking.... heck I could think of lots of things that could have that effect.