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Study: Kids born during COVID-19 pandemic don't have higher autism risk (www.upi.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't see why these 2 would be related, but isn't it early to be concluding this if these kids are only like 3 years old?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Likely it was a study because there are too many stupid people that believe that vaccines cause autism. Society as a whole has lost the ability to critical think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I guess there's some value in proving a negative.

[–] wischi 2 points 2 months ago

But it's also pretty expensive to test every stupid statement somebody said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Early therapy is more effective, as well as less potentially traumatizing. To the point that false positives aren't really a concern.

The most effective therapies just seem like heavilly supervised play-time to your average young kiddo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It pains me that we actually needs to do a study on this.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a pity, we would benefit from more scientists and engineers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Rather hurtful stereotype.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

“Risk”. Imagine thinking being autistic is a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm autistic and think it is mostly a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You might want to find some (better) support. The progressive view is that autism is neither good nor bad - just different - and most of the "issues" with being autistic stem from a lack of understanding and accommodation from the rest of society.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That doesn't really help since we do indeed live in a society

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes. Let me just order an understanding community and infrastructure that suited my needs that weren't met. Let me just revert the lack of development and damage done through neglect. Shall I add some dragons on the side?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

None of this adds up to autism being bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

How so? Underdevelopment of the brain has been pretty bad for me. An abusive enviroment partially as a result of me being autistic was bad for me too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think I understand your argument as being "in a vacuum, being autistic isn't bad", which i agree with in a way; being neurodivergent in any sense technically isn't a bad thing, just a different thing. However, especially with people who are very autistic to the point of struggling to take care of themselves, autism and other neurodivergence can definitely present huge challenges and difficulties for the person themselves and the people around them. We do not live in a vacuum and society as it stands and has stood for hundreds of years is simply not built to be neurodivergent-friendly. At all. I have ADHD which many would think is "not as bad" as autism, yet I have struggled and gone through so mich pain and difficulties simply because of it. It has been an overall net negative. I suspect I may be a bit autistic too, but don't use the label as I haven't gone out of my way to seek a formal diagnosis. In any case, saying that autism isn't "a bad thing" can be touchy because it ignores a lot of real challenges and pain autistic people have gone through and is fairly close to the (frankly patronizing IMO) "autism/ADHD is a superpower" stuff. It doesn't feel like a superpower when you're suffering because of it.

Sorry for the ramble, it's a bit of a difficult and nuanced topic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They should have said "rates".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

People self diagnosing as autistic on the Internet may be all fun and games, but autistic people can have a massively hard time and be incredibly hard to be around. Coping with an autistic child can just break a family.

The archetype of autistic as "extremely smart but socially awkward" has been crazy to see, and I think it diminishes the plight of people that are struggling. People self diagnosing and using "neurotypical" as an insult has been such a bad turn.