(April 23, 2025 at 3:08 pm)Jackalope Wrote:(April 23, 2025 at 12:54 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: "Reparented"? That sounds a lot like the "reeducation camps" in China that even right-wingers revile, and rightly so. It also makes it seem that autism-spectrum disorders arise from upbringing.
Precisely. While parenting can certainly affect an autistic person's life experience, we know that it's primarily a function of genetics.
The best things we can do for autists are to eliminate stigmas and accommodate their special needs.
The ones jumping on the RFK Jr. bandwagon seem to forget a few things. There are more people diagnosed with autism because we know more about it....I can look back to my school days and know there were classmates that would have been on the spectrum if the spectrum was a thing back then.
Not all that different from the rise in cancer diagnosis since we know more and test sooner and the tests are better.
It's not so much there are more people with certain things but rather that we now have names for and look for certain things.
I'm your huckleberry.
