Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway
shalafi@lemmy.world 22 hours agoMy daughter’s autistic and we were 39 (wife) and 42 (me) when we had her. OTOH, we were two years older and my son isn’t autistic.
Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway
shalafi@lemmy.world 22 hours agoMy daughter’s autistic and we were 39 (wife) and 42 (me) when we had her. OTOH, we were two years older and my son isn’t autistic.
Windex007@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Statistical distributions suck, especially when we want a clear-cut cause-and-effect silver bullet. My only sister has two autistic sons, and my wife and I were 7 years older than she was when we had our son and he isn’t autistic (as far as we can tell thus far).
As a brother and uncle, I have incredible empathy for the desire and frustration to just get a clear answer on this. It’s not like lead or asbestos or thaledimide or radiation.
Best we’ve got is a confluence of factors, not the least being family history knowing full well how bad diagnosis has been historically.
It’s so incredibly predatory to dump the science in the trash and just say “it was Tylenol all along”.