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18 Mar 2011, 4:22 pm
chinatown wrote:
:lol: I can't tell if that's a joke or if they actually think there's something to it... You never know with those hippies.
Same here. I looked at the other even nuttier articles and figured it must be a joke site. But you just never know.
Like Yensid, I think it is oddly well written for something so ridiculous. And all the other articles are combinations of actual science and New Age silly. So it's either a parody site or some well educated person went off the rails.
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19 Mar 2011, 11:15 am
Bizarre. I don't know if it's serious or not, but it's about as crazy as a lot of those other "theories."
As far as I can tell, people will blame autism on anything that happens in early childhood, since early childhood is when the symptoms of autism start showing. When a kid starts showing signs of autism, the chances are that something happened recently-- vaccination, baptism, whatever-- and even if there's no science to indicate a connection, people will still believe it, because "he turned autistic right after it happened!"
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19 Mar 2011, 7:57 pm
I word autism seems to be anti-subjectivist in some or more issues.
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This whole thing is so stupid, that's why I posted it. People just can't stop blaming things for autism. It's been TV's, wood floors, rain, infamous vaccines, cows milk, baby formula, and it just keeps getting funnier and funnier.
Next up: Being born causes autism!
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20 Mar 2011, 8:35 am
ocdgirl123 wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
This whole thing is so stupid, that's why I posted it. People just can't stop blaming things for autism. It's been TV's, wood floors, rain, infamous vaccines, cows milk, baby formula, and it just keeps getting funnier and funnier.
Next up: Being born causes autism!
Oh my god. The correlation is so clear! I can see it now! How could we all have been so blind?
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20 Mar 2011, 11:06 am
SundayStorms wrote:
ocdgirl123 wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
This whole thing is so stupid, that's why I posted it. People just can't stop blaming things for autism. It's been TV's, wood floors, rain, infamous vaccines, cows milk, baby formula, and it just keeps getting funnier and funnier.
Next up: Being born causes autism!
Oh my god. The correlation is so clear! I can see it now! How could we all have been so blind?
Not quite the same thing, but there is the idea out there that birth trauma can contribute to autism.
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20 Mar 2011, 3:05 pm
League_Girl wrote:
This whole thing is so stupid, that's why I posted it. People just can't stop blaming things for autism. It's been TV's, wood floors, rain, infamous vaccines, cows milk, baby formula, and it just keeps getting funnier and funnier.
I agree, but I really want to know whether this is serious. It seems like a parody. If so, it is a good one.