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They are still trying to push that "better diagnosis" route, but I think that most people believe by now that something is causing autism, and it's something that some powerful interest doesn't want let out of the bag. My three top culprits are:
Vaccines
Food
Pollution
The FDA keeps denying any link between any of those things and autism, even though vaccines have a very clear correlations with autism. So when is the public going to put pressure on the FDA to man up and actually investigate the cause of autism instead of explaining it away? My guess is the same time the worthless FDA bans the policy of rotating the Pharma CEOs through the head FDA positions. In other words, never.
Is it environmental? Due to labor-inducing drugs? Vaccines? Genetic?
It is BS that we can send a man to the MOON, but we can't heal/take care of our own. This species is SO screwed up.
GMO crops would be my first guess. We eat foods and sweeteners (in EVERYTHING) that are modified with the genes from a field bug. Go figure there'd be side effects.
Why are you so quick to dismiss the better diagnosis hypothesis? In 1960, guess how many people were diagnosed as ADHD? Zero. Does that mean that before the very recent past people didn't have trouble concentrating? Of course not... something may be causing autism, or it may just be that we're now giving a medical label to the extremely socially awkward.
Is it an autism explosion or a diagnosis explosion?
I'm willing to entertain the idea that this might be an actual epidemic, but I want to know why the OP is so quick to dismiss the most likely and obvious explanation.
I'm willing to entertain the idea that this might be an actual epidemic, but I want to know why the OP is so quick to dismiss the most likely and obvious explanation.
To say that autistic children are "extremely socially awkward" is just wrong. Obviously your knowledge about autistic children and children with ADHD (and ADD) (both neurodevelopment disorders) is quite limited.
I don't claim to be an expert. I just don't understand why we're dismissing the most obvious explanation for the increase.
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