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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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  • I don't know what statistics are available as regards autism in Amish communities but they believe in self help for mental illness. Peiople with mental illness have to talk to their bishops. They get preached at. So I do wonder, if there was autism in Amish communities, whether we'd get to know.

    This connection with computers and media also relates to the myth that autism has only affected children within the last twenty years, and that adults with autism are somehow bucking the theory deliberately. After all its something we grow out of....isn't it? 

    Before the computer media - according to the theory being advocated, there wasn't any autism?

    I still have my first pocket calculator from around 1970 - the size of a New Testament bible. I had a ZX Spectrum a decade later around the early 1980s. I was involved in a programme to produce software packages for the BBC micro (that government scheme where free computers were distributed, but schools had to raise money for the viewing monitors). That was another decade on. These computers you are talking about have only been significant influences within the last twenty years.

    Television was black and white and rather limited up to late sixties. I had a crystal set to listen to radio with up early sixties, then a rather feeble transistor radio. The things you are on about - walkmans, ipods, ipads are all products of the last twenty years.

    So what caused autism before these technologies came into the picture? And how do you explain how it affects children. When do children first connect to ipads, ipods and computers? Aged 3 months, aged 15 months, aged three years? aged 5 years? Does autism only appear after long enough exposure? So mothers with children being diagnosed before 2 - how did technology cause that?

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  • I don't know what statistics are available as regards autism in Amish communities but they believe in self help for mental illness. Peiople with mental illness have to talk to their bishops. They get preached at. So I do wonder, if there was autism in Amish communities, whether we'd get to know.

    This connection with computers and media also relates to the myth that autism has only affected children within the last twenty years, and that adults with autism are somehow bucking the theory deliberately. After all its something we grow out of....isn't it? 

    Before the computer media - according to the theory being advocated, there wasn't any autism?

    I still have my first pocket calculator from around 1970 - the size of a New Testament bible. I had a ZX Spectrum a decade later around the early 1980s. I was involved in a programme to produce software packages for the BBC micro (that government scheme where free computers were distributed, but schools had to raise money for the viewing monitors). That was another decade on. These computers you are talking about have only been significant influences within the last twenty years.

    Television was black and white and rather limited up to late sixties. I had a crystal set to listen to radio with up early sixties, then a rather feeble transistor radio. The things you are on about - walkmans, ipods, ipads are all products of the last twenty years.

    So what caused autism before these technologies came into the picture? And how do you explain how it affects children. When do children first connect to ipads, ipods and computers? Aged 3 months, aged 15 months, aged three years? aged 5 years? Does autism only appear after long enough exposure? So mothers with children being diagnosed before 2 - how did technology cause that?

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