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I am going to make a wild guess and say, at least from my own observations, that a potential cause of autism is visual/audial over stimulation in modern humans.

Too much exposure to TV, iPhones/Pads, Video Gaming, Social Media, etc. I can only imagine how boring it must be when you're inundated with all of these stimuli and then have them taken away.

I grew up in the Atari 2600 then NES world and we got maybe a few hours a week to play that *****

Kids these days are on some sort of display screen for more than half of their waking hours. Hell, my ****ing baby was working the remote to the TV, opening the camera on my phone to take pics, and scrolling/swiping whatever **** was on the screen at 12 months. At 15 months, she can turn the TV on and switch to Netflix looking for Cocomelon. What the **** kinda kid does that? DISCLAIMER: I have since limited all exposure for fear the kid will grow up bored and need to be pilled-out to exist on this plane.

Combine that with so many adults taking pills, diet, lack of exposure to God's natural creation, and here we are - in a drug-based trance so we can keep the machine running for the greater good.

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Working the TV and opening phone and taking pics is insanely advanced for 12 months. I'd worry more about your child being Jason Bourne.

That tracks, when you kiddo grabs a phone and tries mimicking you eventually the camera app pops up.

So many nose up selfies....

Yikes on letting your kid watch TV that young.

Its the vaccines.

We have a distant family member who studied autism in grad school like...40 years ago. Apparently Ghana has a high rate of autism as well.

For what its worth, we got to catch up with them last weekend. Their theory is that its correlated with a wider encompassing of the term nowadays, older sperm, and mothers not taking folic acid during pregnancy.

Who knows.

didn't read all 8 pages.

I read recently that Autism in Amish communities is much lower.

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What happened to old school democrats that were skeptical of big business?

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They were either 1. bought out by these big pharmas/ corps

2. Threatened by them.

Go look at the CDC, FDA, NIH top execs where they come from or where then go after their tenures.

Rapier108 said:

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The Green Dragon said:

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Yukon Cornelius said:

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Vaccines 100% are playing a factor.

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You know the only so called "study" which claimed that was withdrawn and the author admitted he faked the entire thing.

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The only evidence I have is anecdotal. Family friends' daughter, like all their other kids, was extremely outgoing, talented and intelligent. She received her vaccines around 9. She had a seizure reaction and was never the same: voice changed, socialization changed - basically a completely different person over night. I saw it and that's that.

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If she had a seizure, that could have caused brain damage.

I'm not referring to rare, adverse reactions to a vaccine, which do happen. Just look at the warnings on the flu shot form one has to read and fill out. The risk of low, but never zero; same for any medication. I do not believe vaccines cause autism by themselves. I do think they should be more spread out when given to kids. Perhaps too many at once can cause an adverse immune reaction in some people.

Now the WuFlu shots, that's a completely different topic. I'm only referring to the vaccines we've been using for 30, 40, 50+ years now.

Now, if someone wants their kids to die of some preventable disease, knock yourself out. Not my kids or my decision.

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I think the hardcore blind believing pro-vaxxers who don't think they could possibly cause ANY harm to ANYONE think some of us skeptics are arguing that these vaccines cause certain, impending harm to everyone who takes them. Not saying that at all, just that there is a TON of evidence/smoke that they are causing harm to a small % of children.

It could be pure coincidence that these cases skyrocketed in the late 80's/early 90's with the rollout of the extensive and largely unnecessary vaccine schedule for babies/toddlers. But I think only a fool would say there absolutely ibn no way can be any real causation with 100% certainty. And the last three years should have been a HUGE screaming wake up call that these politicians and big pharma are not to be blindly trusted.

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I am always skeptical of all sides of an issue. Just how I've always been, probably more so since college because of the amount of research papers I had to do which involved more hours in the library than I can count. Looking at both sides of an issue taught me to learn as much as possible on a subject matter, even if one side I vehemently disagree with, because at least then I understand where they are coming from.

I don't trust big pharma, nor do I trust RFK Jr. Both have their own agenda. Big pharma wants to make the $$$, RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines which would bring back things like polio, tetanus, diphtheria, etc. Like with most things, the truth most likely lies somewhere between the two.

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That is not true. He has stated this multiple times. He wants real research done on both autism & vaccines.

Late to the party.

In my view there is actual autism....head banging, hand waiving, non communicative kids etc. This is horrific and sad and my heart breaks for families that deal with this. And, yes, vaccines are a huge factor in this if not the primary cause. Its undeniable that kids like this exploded in the late 80s/early 90s right when the vaccine schedules were drastically increased. There are so many parents who document that their young toddlers were hitting all the normal milestones and then got the MMR or some other vax combo and then, bam. Fever. Diarrhea. And then never the same.

So that kind of autism is one thing....

And then there is 'autism spectrum' which, as others have said, is very broad and there are incentives to get this diagnosis. Basically, anybody who isn't socially 'normal', whatever that is, is on on the 'spectrum.'

My 16 year old niece was recently diagnosed with 'autism.' Its absurd. She has normal teen social anxiety but we're now all supposed to pretend that its autism.

Virtually anybody can be diagnosed on the spectrum now.

When I go to parties and it gets late I prefer to do an 'Irish goodbye' instead of making a grand announcement that I am leaving... I guess that means I have autism....

I haven't read through the entire thread.

Those that know me, know my son is autistic. When he was young, no one doubted he had autism. We, his parents, were probably the last to accept it. If he had a meltdown they could last hours, him pass out from exhaustion, wake up and pick up right back where he started.

As he has made progress (through enormous and expensive hours of therapy and lots of work), we more often encounter people who comment "he doesn't seem autistic".

They don't have any idea what has gone into getting us this far and how hard he works "to be normal". They don't know about the tears he cries when he loses the struggle in social situations.

And it doesn't bother me what they think. I'm too old (old man sperm here!) and been through too much to care about an outside opinion. And I don't hold it against them, because I know I have said the same type of comments to others in the past.

I'm not sharing the above for my benefit. I'm sharing it because some of you need to take a pause before you judge anyone else's situation too harshly.

You can still hold onto your belief that "autism" has been too widely applied. Heck, I probably agree with you. But when you are judging for yourself about any one particular case in a house other than your own, I can promise you that there is a lot more that you don't know than you do know.

In my freshman year at college (admittedly a long time ago), I didn't really know what autism was. I mean, I had heard of it, but couldn't tell you anything about it. Now, I hear it or about someone described with it on almost a weekly basis. Heck, my wife tells me about someone at church coming up to her and telling her she's "on the spectrum!" What kind of nonsense is this?

We were at a Colorado Rockies game a few years ago while in Denver and some dude sitting behind us kept mummering the same thing over and over all game. He was annoying, but I wasn't about to make a scene. Besides, he has free speech... Anyway, after we left, I can't recall if we were back in the car or walking to it, my wife goes, "yeah, I think he was on the spectrum or something." I'm like, "spectrum my ass; the dude is a lemon meringue pie!"

Dan Scott threads cause autism.

Nobidy knows what causes the 'tism.

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When was the push to " end bullying"? Could be a correlation.

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It started with zero tolerance policies in the early 1990s. A kid is powerless to fight back against bullies even if the teachers know they're putting a kid through hell and deserve it, or even defend themselves because with zero tolerance they're also the guilty one.

Add to that bad parenting choices where the kid gets grounded or worse for self defense and you get a kid being put in a situation with no way out and all kinds of mental stress right around middle school.