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Does watching TV cause Autism ?

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James Poterba is President of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also the Mitsui Professor of Economics at M.I.T.

Quote"They find that it is, and that this correlation cannot be explained simply by the fact that both cable subscriptions and autism rates were rising over the study period, since communities where subscription rates grew faster experienced faster growth in autism rates as well"

http://www.nber.org/bah/winter07/w12632.html

Electron cathode ray brainwashing delta signal via light cones of the eye to the brain.

Which country watches the most TV and which country has the most autism.

http://www.icare4autism.org/news/2010/09/autism-action-a-global-perspective/

http://www.aneki.com/watch_tv.html

I have not watched TV in the last 5 years, as I knew it was effecting my condition. My parents had the biggest TV in the street as well, growing up. So maybe TV size maybe a correlation as well.

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  • Can I endorse ScorpionXo17's last line - without autism we most probably wouldn't be as technologically advanced as we are as a species.

    This may seem strange to some correspondents and particularly many parents, observing something so destructive to individuals' lives, but I do think there's something more going on.

    The focus thing (along with perseverance and obsession) enables some people to examine the minutae of evidence that leads to scientific breakthroughs, which is the only way we can keep pace with the ever changing environmental limitations.

    The cost seems to be an unhappy conflict with social expectations. But have those social expectations got more rigid with modern media and lifestyles? In Victorian England eccentricity seems to have been much more acceptable. Not wahing as regularly, or not dressing to fashion, or not eating the same things didn't lead to such pressures as we have now.

    Are neurotypicals obsessing about aspies and making things far worse than they need be?

    When puzzled about these things I like to re-read Arthur C Clarke's "Childhood's End" a classic sci fi story written in the mid 1950s.

    Who's got the right ideas about the future?

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  • Can I endorse ScorpionXo17's last line - without autism we most probably wouldn't be as technologically advanced as we are as a species.

    This may seem strange to some correspondents and particularly many parents, observing something so destructive to individuals' lives, but I do think there's something more going on.

    The focus thing (along with perseverance and obsession) enables some people to examine the minutae of evidence that leads to scientific breakthroughs, which is the only way we can keep pace with the ever changing environmental limitations.

    The cost seems to be an unhappy conflict with social expectations. But have those social expectations got more rigid with modern media and lifestyles? In Victorian England eccentricity seems to have been much more acceptable. Not wahing as regularly, or not dressing to fashion, or not eating the same things didn't lead to such pressures as we have now.

    Are neurotypicals obsessing about aspies and making things far worse than they need be?

    When puzzled about these things I like to re-read Arthur C Clarke's "Childhood's End" a classic sci fi story written in the mid 1950s.

    Who's got the right ideas about the future?

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