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Windex007@lemmy.world 1 week agoIt’s probably more than just better diagnosis.
“Advanced Parental Age” has a significant body of work behind it, and people are having kids quite a bit older than they used to, because… you know… gestures broadly at how fucked up the world is
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My 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 1 week 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”.