There is absolutely a autism epidemic in this country.
I see total retards walking around with their big ass headphones on.
What is poisoning us?
I see total retards walking around with their big ass headphones on.
What is poisoning us?
What is causing the huge rise in autism?
I think there's several things.
According to the source I looked at, it manifests in the first 3 years of life. How many mothers in the past 25 years spent more time on ICQ or MSN messenger or Facebook or Instagram or tiktok than playing with their kids? How many babies never spent much time with their parents and went straight into a daycare with 25 other kids because both parents need to work to pay the rent and bills? Daycare isn't necessarily bad, but some are highly likely to have environments much less nurturing than parents of that child. Lacking extensive social interaction early I think will cause many neurological pathways associated with empathy and social skills to become underdeveloped early.
Second, people who might be on the spectrum but develop normally through community interactions helping to train them to be reasonably normal don't have a community to train on, so the deficit becomes permanent. Internet communities aren't a replacement for being next to someone in the flesh.
Third, although we are the least mentally healthy we've ever been as a society there's more awareness of the potential for being mentally ill, so people who would be clinically called a weirdo or a jerk in previous eras are now on a spectrum with a medical label. Doesn't solve anything, but it does mean numbers will go up even with the same number of people with it, forget about having much more people with it and also catching more people as having it.
Finally, historically we've only a few times every had parents as old as they are now, and there's been a link found between parental age and autism. While in some ways we're the best off we've ever been, our cramped living conditions, requirement to work long hours at stressful jobs (physically demanding jobs aren't necessarily the most stressful), and making too little for a parent to stay home and be a parent means there's a real crisis in parenthood which has many effects but in particular people just aren't having kids until they're much older.
I think there's several things.
According to the source I looked at, it manifests in the first 3 years of life. How many mothers in the past 25 years spent more time on ICQ or MSN messenger or Facebook or Instagram or tiktok than playing with their kids? How many babies never spent much time with their parents and went straight into a daycare with 25 other kids because both parents need to work to pay the rent and bills? Daycare isn't necessarily bad, but some are highly likely to have environments much less nurturing than parents of that child. Lacking extensive social interaction early I think will cause many neurological pathways associated with empathy and social skills to become underdeveloped early.
Second, people who might be on the spectrum but develop normally through community interactions helping to train them to be reasonably normal don't have a community to train on, so the deficit becomes permanent. Internet communities aren't a replacement for being next to someone in the flesh.
Third, although we are the least mentally healthy we've ever been as a society there's more awareness of the potential for being mentally ill, so people who would be clinically called a weirdo or a jerk in previous eras are now on a spectrum with a medical label. Doesn't solve anything, but it does mean numbers will go up even with the same number of people with it, forget about having much more people with it and also catching more people as having it.
Finally, historically we've only a few times every had parents as old as they are now, and there's been a link found between parental age and autism. While in some ways we're the best off we've ever been, our cramped living conditions, requirement to work long hours at stressful jobs (physically demanding jobs aren't necessarily the most stressful), and making too little for a parent to stay home and be a parent means there's a real crisis in parenthood which has many effects but in particular people just aren't having kids until they're much older.
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