Cross-posted from "modern psychiatry be like" by @fossilesque@mander.xyz in !science_memes@mander.xyz
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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That is an odd leading theory.
Afaik the leading theory is people are born with it, and "it" can show in a lot of different ways, but a list of symptoms are very telling and there are clear patterns of behavior associated with it. Also there's a specific age when people start to notice autism in children most prominently.
From what I can tell, you can't "become" autistic.
And vaccines and autism only overlap because the age where autism tends to stick out in children falls bang in the middle of the age range where children get their vaccinations. So it lines up. But in a bunch of studies a direct correlation was never found, and neither was causation.
I didn't mean to imply that people become autistic, just that gamete or gestational dysfunction caused by toxic pollution could be to blame.
You're getting downvoted, and I don't necessarily think this is correct. But we should study it anyway since we live in an extremely different environment than even just ten years ago. There is probably no link to autism, but the environment may be the cause of other disease states.
HOWEVER As the father of an (high functioning) autistic child, I think the main reason there is push back against looking at environmental factors is that it implies the autistic person is in some fundamental way "damaged." I can both assure that this is not he case and that that way of thinking, really, really pisses autistic people off. And rightfully so IMHO.