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The Revolution

(866 posts) Mon Oct 6, 2025, 03:10 PM 8 hrs ago

Why Everyone Suddenly Has Autism

Just watched this video that goes over the actual science of the causes autism. Really interesting. Like the fact that for identical twins, if one twin has autism, there is a huge increase in the chance the other twin has it. This chance drops off greatly for fraternal twins or regular siblings, though it is still higher than you would see I n the general population. That shows that genetics is a huge part of the cause.

If you don't subscribe to the PBS channels on YouTube, I highly recommend them They are extremely well made and informative.

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Why Everyone Suddenly Has Autism (Original Post) The Revolution 8 hrs ago OP

And yet RFK, Jr., & Trump continue to push damaging misinformation. Malevolent morons. tblue37 7 hrs ago #1

Because not only is it genetic, Autism is a spectrum condition, and... haele 6 hrs ago #2

This video also explains how it is thought of more of a "wheel" now The Revolution 5 hrs ago #3

tblue37

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1. And yet RFK, Jr., & Trump continue to push damaging misinformation. Malevolent morons.

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Mon Oct 6, 2025, 04:15 PM

7 hrs ago

haele

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2. Because not only is it genetic, Autism is a spectrum condition, and...

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Mon Oct 6, 2025, 04:23 PM

6 hrs ago

... there's better diagnostic procedures to recognize Autism instead of just shrugging it off as someone always being "weird" or "difficult", and is usually pretty much a social failure, unless they have some sort of talent or can mask well enough to just be "quirky"...

The Revolution

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3. This video also explains how it is thought of more of a "wheel" now

Reply to haele (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 6, 2025, 06:01 PM

5 hrs ago

Rather than a single spectrum, there are various ways an individual might be affected, and each of those to different degrees, so each person's autism can be very different from another. This was new to me, but it makes a lot of sense.

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