Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello all
I was musing the other day on the roots of autism and two things struck me:
So both are potentially controversial theories and please we are trying to only look at scientific information and not conspiracy theories, my reason for saying this will become very clear in a moment.
Looking at the first point, whilst it had been comprehensively shown scientifically in multiple studies that there is not a direct link between vaccines and autism, and the original "research" that started that whole controversy was unscientific and unethical, there are still some important questions that remain. Autistics for instance, are far more likely than the neurotypical population to have a range of autoimmune medical conditions, such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, which is interesting as there is a small risk with every vaccination of an autoimmune reaction. Hence there is an interesting question as to why autistics are more autoimmune disease prone and does this make them more disposed to a vaccination reaction? So whilst they already had autism do the traits come out post vaccination due to an autoimmune reaction or is there not link or something more sinister?
As for two species, we know that all, but people of direct African decent, modern humans contain some neanderthal DNA. IS it possible though that autistics contain some other neanderthal DNA that makes them more neanderthal than human, hence two species in effect. We know that humans and neanderthals did copulate ad have cross-species babies, so its possible that they "live on". Think also what happens when one crosses a horse and a donkey, so what happens if one crosses a neanderthal and a human? Before dismissing it, think about it, think about the possibilities and what we could represent.
Cheers
Andy
I'm not sure about anything you state as facts. I believe human DNA and genetic make-up is very complex and mutations can be good or bad. In the natural world, the fittest survive, the faulty die out. The fact that there are common genetic problems means that the DNA molecule has common weak points.
My Asperger's means I can do things that NTs can't. My ability to see through complex problems and abilty to concentrate on fine details and my eidetic memory means that I make most NTs look totally incompetent and non-productive in comparison. I was lucky and found my 'place in the world' so I was successful. I consider myself a 'good' mutation. i'm also a non-identical twin and my brother is NT.
The whole MMR thing is a red-herring - there was no such thing as MMR when I was a kid - yet here I am. I have a serious auto-immune problem. I look back at my school days and there were loads of 'different' kids but they ended up in special schools or remedial classes so they were invisible to society. Today, they all go to mainstream schools so they stand out more.
Plastic said:In the natural world, the fittest survive, the faulty die out.
In the natural world, it is the most befitting that in fact survive, as adapting to the means of their respective environments ~ Darwin. There is no faulty anything in evolution, only adaptation, and each adaptation enhances the whole, as being a singular spatial harmonic of infinite subatomic, atomic and alto-atomic energy fields ~ Physics and Quantum Physics.
Plastic said:The whole MMR thing is a red-herring - there was no such thing as MMR when I was a kid - yet here I am.
There are three causes of autism:
1.) Uterine Trauma;
2.) Genetic Trauma,
and
3.) Environmental Trauma.
1) Uterine Trauma involves a pregnant mother experiencing a shock to her system, that may be anything from minor to severe ~ a severe shock in known cases involve one mother falling down stairs and going into premature labour, and two others involve the mothers losing an older baby each due to the respective children getting infections and dying. All three cases of psychological and physiological trauma occurred at about the fifth and half month gestation stage, i.e, the second trimester.
2.) Genetic Trauma involves the baby experiencing a traumatic birth experience ~ umbilical around the next, stuck in the birth canal or forced deliveries involving forceps deliveries etc.
3.) Environmental Trauma involves accidents and infections that are quite severe for the newborn baby involving near death ~ involving the first few months or years it seems.
Some children as pointed out on this thread do get adverse reactions to immunisation treatments, but these are relatively few in number, and productive countermeasures can be used within a limited time frame not exceeding preadolescence ~ as I understand it. One countermeasure is Gut-Flora treatment, as can resolve the damage for 3.ET-Autism, and as can alleviate the symptomologies of 1-UT- and 2-GT-Autism also. Early treatment is key, and later treatments are or can be helpful.
A minor or major trauma can result in greater or lesser autistic trait combinations depending upon the genetic constitution of the child in question. The basic factor that seems to link all types of autism is oxygen starvation that results from the mother or child hyperventilating (rapid shallow breathing) whilst the freeze, flight and flight mechanism is engaging fully and completely, and remaining essentially on through life for the child.
Interesting theory, but where is the research that backs up such trauma root claims? I’d also challenge the theory itself as it does explain why some families have a higher prevalence of autism nor why one identical twin may have Autism but the other doesn’t.
Deepthought said:So apologies again for the linguistic jumble and not providing the relative data at the time of posting ~ as I thought it was quite common knowledge when I posted. Sorry.
Not a linguistic jumble and no need to apologise. It's always interesting to know why other people have differing beliefs, and to trace back the reasoning and evidence.
I'm sure oxygen deprivation during or after birth can cause brain damage and learning disabilities, but my impression is that it's not seen as a prominent cause of either ASD or classic autism. The Wikipedia article seems to reflect the current balance of thinking, but to the first approximation the best answer I've heard to 'what causes autism?' is 'no one knows'. There is an 'emotional trauma' kind of theory, as I mention with Tustin, but I think that's psychoanalytic woo just trying to find a niche for itself; she herself also refers to a continuum with brain damage, it's just that conception from the 1970s or so hasn't been pursued, possibly because there's no single linking medical factor.
I didn't find much relevant on Science Daily except this from relatively recently, 2016:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160607220116.htm
As it happens, I know that there was a theory of depression that sounds precisely the same, interaction of short variant* 5-HTTLPR X social stress. That theory had a brief period in the sun as a 'genetic cause of depression'. Then it magically turned out not to exist although social stress alone had an effect of course.
(I entertain the unpopular view that autistic characteristics or at least negative social outcomes of them could be acquired by social stress (what are my sources? Can I leave those for a rainy day?) It's taken me a while for me to really accept that human personalities and mental abilities differ. On the other hand, I also like the Spikins theory and I'm also influenced by a scholarly paper by Crespi, Autism As a Disorder of High Intelligence.)
(*) That Wikipedia article also mentions our old friend the amygdala. Not sure if that will cause Graham to come up with a Grand Theory of Autism, or he'll get completely lost in a maze of books and never emerge.