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Smoking while pregnant

ASD & Mom never smoked	60%	[ 40 ]
ASD & Mom kept smoking while pregnant with me	18%	[ 12 ]
ASD & Mom cut back smoking while pregnant with me	6%	[ 4 ]
ASD & Mom stopped smoking altogether while pregnant with me	12%	[ 8 ]
I don't really know or care.	3%	[ 2 ]
Not ASD & Mom never smoked	1%	[ 1 ]
Not ASD & Mom kept smoking	0%	[ 0 ]
Not ASD & Mom cut back a bit	0%	[ 0 ]
Not ASD & Mom stopped altogether	0%	[ 0 ]

Total votes : 67

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12 Sep 2010, 9:57 pm

I had early infantile autism and my mother did smoke.

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13 Sep 2010, 3:21 am

it's actually quite interesting that most of us seem to know the answer.
I thought we'd get a lot more "I don't know"s

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13 Sep 2010, 3:33 am

Have Aspergers and my mom has never smoked. Interesting, I've never heard this one before. Although, I've heard the vaccination one multiple times linked to autism... though no research really confirms it.

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13 Sep 2010, 4:06 am

"ASD & Mom kept smoking while pregnant with me"

I think this is true, though I can't be certain. I know she smoked for years before I was born & never heard of her quitting when she got pregnant with me. All I know is that she always smoked until I was 19 & she had a bad stroke because of it, so I assume she smoked while she was pregnant with me also.

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13 Sep 2010, 6:12 am

That's not really a crazy question; smoking during pregnancy increases the chances of abnormalities in the child. It only makes sense that an ASD is one of the possibilities.

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13 Sep 2010, 8:09 am

my mom smoked while pregnant with me, but my autism was caused by an infant formula that was defective, recalled by the FDA and swept under the rug. It had lead and very high levels of copper in it too. Most of the other kids that were on the formula were eventually diagnosed with ASD too. It also caused sezuires, and muscle weakness, and slower post natal brain development

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13 Sep 2010, 10:02 am

I smoked for years but quit a year before I became pregnant with my ASD boy.

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13 Sep 2010, 10:27 am

OddFiction wrote:

yep. Theory fail.
There are a chain of research steps that led me to wonder if nicotine withdrawl in the mother had any influence or impact on triggering dormant ASD genes. Looks like a balanced number of people had nonsmoking parents.

But so far there are no votes from non-ASD people.....how can you be sure your theory has failed, without non-ASD data to compare the ASD data with?

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