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I respect Dr Peter Hotez - he's an autism dad. But he implies mom's the cause, ignoring the dad's contribution to #autism. In fact most autism comes from the father. His sperm's much more vulnerable & susceptible to mutation, and drugs - esp illicit drugs - are a prime cause of such mutations.

So put that in your pipe and smoke it.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Autism/autism-linked-family-inherited-gene-mutations/story?id=16071503

https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/siblings-with-autism-share-more-of-fathers-dna-not-mothers/

Autism Linked to Inherited Gene Mutations, Particularly From Dad

Scientists use whole-exome sequencing to pinpoint autism genetic link.
ABC News
#autism
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
It's just as likely to be both parents contributing. The blame game is futile, and harmful. #ActuallyAutistic people are forever fighting a very real prejudice against them. Autistic children need to be protected from ABA and 'cures'.
Knowledge is power. #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
#actuallyautistic #nothingaboutuswithoutus
ScriptFanix ❤️ ⏚ ⸫
And I'll add that: "The latest statistics released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that autism spectrum disorder increased by 23 percent from 2006 to 2008 to include nearly one in 88 children." says more about diagnosis and societal changes than the #actuallyAutistic population...
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴
It's not a game. It's important to know, especially as for a long time moms were blamed - eg, "refrigerator mothers." All too often, the mom is blamed because she's the one who's pregnant and carries the fetus to term. But the father is contributing 50% of the generic material. And his sperm is more susceptible to mutation. It's important for dads (and moms) to know so they can take proper care.
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
What do mean 'proper care'? How to avoid having autistic children?How do you think that is going to work? Too damn bad if this 'solution' leads to eugenics, eh? Learning more about the Autism Spectrum is the key, imo. @ScriptFanix
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ScriptFanix ❤️ ⏚ ⸫
Autistic here, dating an autistic woman, and planning to have kids...

There's no "blame" to put on anyone. Would I blame my mother for passing colourblindness on to me? Should people with this or that so-called "defect" blame their parents? That's a slippery slope...
@Tooden
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ScriptFanix ❤️ ⏚ ⸫
The issue is not that we blame mothers, but that we blame anyone. Nature and genetics, if anything else.
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
I think Gina is riding a hobbyhorse off a cliff, or a grudge to the edge of the world.
ScriptFanix ❤️ ⏚ ⸫
"hobbyhorse", never heard that but I'm making it mine now.
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴
They've been trying to pin the ever increasing rate of autism on increases in diagnosis every since I can remember - at heart the 80s.

B. S.

I think the cause is environmental, not diagnostic bias or better diagnostics.
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
I don't think it is environmental. It is neurological, and it doesn't need to be eradicated. @ScriptFanix
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Bernie Sadly Does It
None of the autistics I've met who were alive in the 80's were diagnosed in the 80’s.
Bernie Sadly Does It
They were autistic in the 80's, though.
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
I'm pretty damn sure my mother was autistic, and my dad was audhd. Both masked heavily, of course. They were born in the 1920s. Chances are they inherited from 'their' parents...long before vaccinations or food additives were a thing. @ginaintheburg @ScriptFanix
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ScriptFanix ❤️ ⏚ ⸫
Pretty sure my mother is too... At least she has lots of traits. My father is 100% neurotypical though, that I am certain of.
@BernieDoesIt @ginaintheburg
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Kevin Davy
Damn sure my father, born in the 30's, was as autistic as I am, born in the 60's. The only reason neither of us were diagnosed was because we didn't fit the criteria at the time. And I turned up at school waving what would now be considered so many red flags, it was untrue. Increased awareness and availability of that information, explains everything.
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
Exactly. Eugenics is never going to become a thing of the past while people are ignorant of the ways that the spectrum works. But, there is also that disability stigma. The fear and horror of disability that is entrenched in the NT mind. What's happening in the USA at present, and to a lesser extent in the UK, is the deliberate attempt to erase the elderly, disabled, and 'different', through the defunding and shutting down of programs that assist them. #Evil @BernieDoesIt @ginaintheburg @ScriptFanix
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Kevin Davy
I'm afraid to say you're right. In part it's the covid classic again of, if there is no tests then it means there's no problem and we don't have to do anything.
The thought that difference may be common is certainly something that the hierarchical minded are not comfortable with.
Bernie Sadly Does It
On one side of my family, my grandfather was probably autistic and my grandmother AuDHD. Almost every one of their descendants is neurodivergent. I don't know the other side as well, but there's plenty on that side as well and it goes back to the grandparents at least.
Kevin Davy
There's no way to know how far it actually goes back. But given the size of what seems to be a fairly stable population, it's a long way back.
Plus so many people In history scream autism, it's hard to believe they weren't.
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴
It does not. It may explain you and some others, but it is most certainly not the whole story. It is irresponsible to pretend that environmental circumstances, especially the widespread use of drugs, esp illicit & so called "recreational" drug use have nothing to do with anything.

There are some hereditary forms of autism, but there are many more that result from genetic mutations and the vast majority of those are sperm mutations.
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