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Autism study... did you see this?
The sample size is pretty large, and the results are interesting. The article even says they accounted for other factors like SES, education level, etc. Hmmm.
Re: Autism study... did you see this?
Does anyone know if the time that people are waiting between children is trending down, or up? I guess that my question on this study is that it seems like over the past 50 or so years as birth control has become more reliable and acceptable it feels as if more and more people are waiting longer between children. But, Autism is on the rise. If people are indeed waiting longer (which I am unsure of from a statistics stand point) wouldn't autism then be going down?
Also, looking at other countries and cultures where they encourage back to back children, wouldn't they have much higher rates of autism as well?
I guess that whenever a study like this comes out I always take it with a HUGE grain of salt.
Sometimes I think b/c people are waiting longer to have children that they're having them closer together. You in a bit more of a rush if you have your first at 35 as opposed to 25 I guess. I don't have any scientific data to back that up obviously
I don't know if it's that more people have Autism now, or if more knowledge is out there and therefore, more people are being diagnosed. I doubt there are actually more people with Autism now than 50 years ago, it's just that 50 years ago they wouldn't have been diagnosed.
That's a good point. If my mom doesn't have some form of ADD, I would be completely shocked.
Looking back my grandma said she was a handful and got in trouble a lot b/c she couldn't concentrate in school and did pretty poorly as a kid. If she was a kid now she would've already seen a doctor for it and probably be on some type of medication.
I guess that is true--- back then you were just labeled "strange", huh?
I think it's pretty universally accepted (in the Medical field, at least) that it's not so much that there is more Autism - it's that it has a name, and a diagnosis and it's a spectrum disorder so that means that more people are diagnosed with it when, in the past, you were probably either "strange" to quote PP if you were mild on the spectrum or institutionalized if you were more severe on the spectrum.
As far as birth spacing that's an interesting thought. I would venture to guess my parents are probably a good bit older than most of yours (I am older than many of you and I am one of my parent's youngest kids...) but when they were having babies they and their irish catholic friends didn't use birth control - you kinda just had kids when you did. My aunt had 4 under 5, my mom had 5 in 12 years. It just depended, I think.
Interesting points, ladies!
I would like to see the study repeated with a broader sample population than just people in CA. If there really are other environmental links, you'd need to account for people from different places. Also, if it's genetic, you'd think that there would be differences amonngst populations from different geographical areas.
And yes, I think that there isn't more Autism, just more diagnosed cases.
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