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Lovie777

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4. For personal reasons...............

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 07:12 AM

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I think it is genetic.

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FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary tells Scripps News 'I don't think autism is genetic' [View all] BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP

leucovorin-I have no doubt that some Republicans are making a ton of money off this stuff Walleye Yesterday #1

You didn't see them generations ago bc they were warehoused in insane asylums. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Yesterday #2

Exactly. Timeflyer Yesterday #6

Or the family attic Hekate 15 hrs ago #29

Or died. RedArkGuy 10 hrs ago #38

it wasn't REPORTED as much generations ago Skittles Yesterday #3

Yes and just lived out their lives "Hermits" and 'Non-social" or "Anti-social" or "Non-conformists" LiberalArkie Yesterday #5

wow, another post worth of its own thread Skittles 17 hrs ago #22

Something I did not figure out until about a year ago, A lot of us can not say NO. LiberalArkie 16 hrs ago #24

had never thought of that Skittles 15 hrs ago #26

You must tell him as most guys do not know or realize it. I wondered most of my life why I could not keep anything LiberalArkie 14 hrs ago #30

alas my brother passed in 2021 Skittles 14 hrs ago #33

I am so sorry to hear that. LiberalArkie 1 hr ago #41

Why? Cirsium 15 hrs ago #28

For personal reasons............... Lovie777 Yesterday #4

same Skittles 16 hrs ago #23

What?! yardwork 23 hrs ago #7

Apparently he has never heard of science or history. mwmisses4289 23 hrs ago #8

Good Lord. yardwork 23 hrs ago #9

It's not in their "world" (that they are willing to admit to) BumRushDaShow 23 hrs ago #10

Dr. Malarky Marthe48 23 hrs ago #11

There is definitely a strong genetic component. High-functioning autism runs in our family across 4 generations Martin68 23 hrs ago #12

It's definitely a continuum. yardwork 22 hrs ago #16

"I don't believe" PSPS 23 hrs ago #13

Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, BootinUp 23 hrs ago #14

Quack back at ya. twodogsbarking 22 hrs ago #15

The modern-day phenomenon liberalgunwilltravel 21 hrs ago #17

I think there is a genetic component NH Ethylene 21 hrs ago #18

Autism is not new. ananda 21 hrs ago #19

But recognition and diagnosis have changed drastically over the years. eppur_se_muova 14 hrs ago #31

I don't exactly consider autism a defect. ananda 14 hrs ago #32

Call it a 'condition', then. Whatever you call it, it is something which only slowly came to be recognized. eppur_se_muova 14 hrs ago #34

Of course it exists. ananda 14 hrs ago #35

This message was self-deleted by its author valleyrogue 11 hrs ago #37

What I don't understand is why a high functioning and low functioning autism are both autism womanofthehills 12 hrs ago #36

He is shockingly uninformed. Tanuki 19 hrs ago #20

I would have been 14. I remember that article vividly. 3catwoman3 17 hrs ago #21

I don't think he knows what he's talking about struggle4progress 16 hrs ago #25

Rosemary Kennedy was given a frontal chelsea0011 15 hrs ago #27

We are different. Aussie105 7 hrs ago #39

Sigh lonely bird 1 hr ago #40