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RFK Jr. set to launch disease registry tracking autistic people
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Why is it so hard for some people to believe that there is genetic variation in the human brain?
Because the genetic variation is confused and muddled by foundational things they can't understand.
Simple things like family structure and the importance of it. A lot of autism overdiagnoses are purely from the developmental differences; economic class, quality of life, nutrition, exposure, and obviously parents or lack there of.
For example, simple acts like kids getting to play in the dirt exposes them to beneficial bacteria. Which I could also see laying the groundwork for gut bacteria. With how common kids do try and eat it, along with developing nations cooking with it, seems at least conceptually plausible.
I believe in autism and am not denying its existence as my fiancée has autism.
I am more saying that there is a huge upbringing differential that can cause kids to experience trauma. Trauma that can give the same responses. Social media enables this issue by pushing kids who don't have access to self identify, pushing a false representation. However, it is good for kids to be trying to put the pieces together - they just need help.
That's me! Early in therapy for CPTSD, we spent some time trying to determine if I'm autistic or just have autistic tendencies due to CPTSD. Turns out it was the latter.
Some believe that their way of thinking, their neurological tendencies are the "right way" to do things in life. Others who arent like that are wrong in their eyes. Same with skin color and religion.