Neurodivergence

We have made a lot of breakthroughs in understanding of gut bacteria in recent decades and we've linked a lot of neurological things to the gut biome so I wouldn't be too surprised if either or neither were accurate.

I'd change in a heart beat. My sensory issues and struggles with executive function, social cluelessness, attention problems and so much more are not "super powers". It sucks and I'd love to not have to figure out the rules by breaking them and then getting in trouble.

Going through life walking on eggshells is no way to live. I am trying to surround myself with people who are more understanding and I'm doing my best to be attentive when I have the spoons. But like.. not understanding why people behave a certain way and simply not even knowing you're supposed to react a certain way in certain social settings is exhausting.

Not everyone has the same degree of autism. Well functioning children for example may not need any treatments. On the other hand, entirely non functioning children, who are depressed, so easily over stimulated that their lives are actively difficult, etc I would be shocked to see someone claim they should continue to suffer and reject potential treatments because others feel like their own autism doesn't cause any issues.

I even know people who have their autism well under control who would have had much better childhoods and be happier today had there been better treatments, and would likely accept some treatments now given certain effects were possible.

i think that regardless, if this does appear to be a prevalent pattern with statistical significance, it would allow for people who may previously have gone undiagnosed/misdiagnosed to receive an accurate diagnosis. the idea of seeing this as a 'problem' requiring 'potential treatment' is spooky and insidious, but i still want to be excited about the good this could do.

The word "gut" is a red flag for pseudoscience. There's no such thing. Talk about specific organs and areas of the digestive system, not a "gut".

Is it though? Or are you overly confident in your knowledge, and being unnecessarily critical to the point of ignorance? And are just spreading misinformation?

Given this is a term used in the journal of Nature, the U.S. National Institute of Health, Universities (ie. Cambridge, Oxford), The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the EU European Science Commission, the UK National Health System, and is used within countless publications to succinctly describes the "human microbiome" which is largely composed of the microbiome in the digestive tract (otherwise known as the "gut"), you are most definitely wrong.

It's an actual term with a definition, just because you aren't aware of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist...

Is a "digestive tract" also not a thing because it doesn't describe a specific organ? How about the endocrine system? What about your immune system? Your body is made up of systems that interact in complex ways across organs, and often the organs themselves are not the imporibit either.

I would suggest you at least read the Wikipedia page before spouting such nonsense as this.

This is one of the times I wish the downvote button was enabled, this sort of nonsense shouldn't be able to bubble up to the top by virtue of just finding enough people who also don't know better.

The "gut" might not be an organ but I can't see a microbe letting go of some tasty piece of food just because it happens to pass from the small incestine to the colon... (wrong terms can safely be attributed to my translation tool)...