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Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths

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Re: Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #198
djhope99 wrote: post #183

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Thanks for taking the time to write this. I appreciate it, I read it to my wife and she agrees we should stop thinking about the why. It’s not so much that we want them to be normal or are particularly worried about that, we are very anxious though about what happens to them when we die and what abuse they might face.

I will interpret your gratitude as license to infodump. (I have many thoughts, and few parents-of-children to share them with.) They're not going to be dependent on you their whole lives. They will be dependent on society, but so are the majority of neurotypical adults. If they're capable of interacting with the outside world, having deliberate hobbies, etc, then while they may need extra/different support with many…

Oh, hey, the academics have started to study autistic morality from a perspective other than "autistic people are deficient". Here's one from 2020: https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320939331

Re: Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths

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Post by Nasrudith »

sentfromrevolut wrote: post #174
reilly3000 wrote: post #164

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It’s strongly correlated with genetics down to a handful of SNPs. There is also a lot of evidence to suggest physiological differences in amygdala mass as well as hormone production. No exterior factor has been proven. No scapegoat is needed either, autists tend to like who they are and have unique and important value.

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Or parents desperately trying to make it 'not their fault' from it being genetic. The wild-ass guessing popular for it screams motivated reasoning for "anything but genetic".

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ChiperSoft wrote: post #162

This article annoys me to all ends. It started out badly by referring to autism as a disability, but it got worse in the fact that they’re assuming all of John’s symptoms are because he’s autistic. All of his disabilities can much easier be ascribed to brain damage post-partum. That hole in his heart meant he was getting less blood flow and less oxygen at a critical time in his brain development. The fact that both t…

It is a disability and it is disabling to most people who have it.
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