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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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  • longman and stranger - I agree with both of you.

    I am in my fifties. We didn't have a television when I was young and I must have been nearly ten when we got our first black and white set. My sibling and I were rationed by my father to, at most, one or two short programmes a day. We often watched none at all. My father and sibling, appear to have had AS, as well as myself. 

    I have always been wary of technology and only began using a computor a couple of years ago. Same with mobile phones. Neither sibling nor father used one of those. Also none of us possessed iphones etc etc. With my paternal grandfather and three more of my distant relatives having an AS profile, it all looks '!suspiciously!' genetic. 

    I do think that in the past ASD would be explained away by other diagnosis - for example one female relative of mine was initially described by other family members as 'feeble minded'.  Diagnosis can be much more accurate now. But it seems obvious to me, just from family experience that AS was around long before tv, computors, mobile phones etc.

    I also wonder if people are looking for 'easy reasons' for ASD, like exposure to tv, so they can then advocate an easy answer - 'Hey, Lets turn the TV off and everything will be alright.'  

    For a lot of us the noise, images, colours and quick-changes that a TV throws out can make our condition worse for a while. so the answer to that is to turn the telly off. But turning the telly off is not going to stop people having AS.
     
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  • longman and stranger - I agree with both of you.

    I am in my fifties. We didn't have a television when I was young and I must have been nearly ten when we got our first black and white set. My sibling and I were rationed by my father to, at most, one or two short programmes a day. We often watched none at all. My father and sibling, appear to have had AS, as well as myself. 

    I have always been wary of technology and only began using a computor a couple of years ago. Same with mobile phones. Neither sibling nor father used one of those. Also none of us possessed iphones etc etc. With my paternal grandfather and three more of my distant relatives having an AS profile, it all looks '!suspiciously!' genetic. 

    I do think that in the past ASD would be explained away by other diagnosis - for example one female relative of mine was initially described by other family members as 'feeble minded'.  Diagnosis can be much more accurate now. But it seems obvious to me, just from family experience that AS was around long before tv, computors, mobile phones etc.

    I also wonder if people are looking for 'easy reasons' for ASD, like exposure to tv, so they can then advocate an easy answer - 'Hey, Lets turn the TV off and everything will be alright.'  

    For a lot of us the noise, images, colours and quick-changes that a TV throws out can make our condition worse for a while. so the answer to that is to turn the telly off. But turning the telly off is not going to stop people having AS.
     
    Smile 

     


      

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