• onslaught545@lemmy.zip
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    20 hours ago

    It’s a correlation doesn’t equal causation issue. Iirc years ago there was a study showing that certain viral infections during pregnancy might be linked to autism.

    Guess what people often take for symptom relief?

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      19 hours ago

      The influence of genetics is very clear, with anticipation up the spectrum with every generation, especially with older parents.

      No one in austism research is taking environmental factors seriously in the last decade.