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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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  • Ah well, if he's still only 2.5 years old you've yet to discover what happens when he has more contact with his peer group, and that shows up difference.

    So you're going to add to that difference by not allowing your son any of the resources that enable social discussion in chiildhood and teens - which unfortunately I agree is prevalently hinged on media and gadgets nowadays - and your son will be just that much more different.

    I know about this personally because it was what my parents did. I've never been quite sure why this happened but from 1963 until about mid 70s we didn't have TV in the house. My use of a transistor radio was also censored for bad influences. So I went out a lot wandering the streets, played in the garden or read. I didn't cultivate friends much so didn't see much TV in other houses. It certainly meant it wasn't advantageous for other kids to come round to my house.

    It meant I couldn't join in any of the discussion at school about what was on TV or any of the other things happening. Didn't stop the aspergers (even though it wasn't known about in those days). Didn't help the bullying I suffered, or the isolation, or the lowe self esteem and lack of self confidence.

    And we're talking here being a teenager in the 60s. You're son is going to be a teenager in the 2010s/2020s - very different age where TV, ipods, electronic games are crucial to young people's discussions. And your son is going to be deprived even of that opportunity to mix!

    You think your hairbrained scheme is going to do any good. Well its your son who will have to pay for your blinkered egotistical homespun philosophy.

    Please do some research on autism. Don't just impose your theory its curable by hiding the telly!

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  • Ah well, if he's still only 2.5 years old you've yet to discover what happens when he has more contact with his peer group, and that shows up difference.

    So you're going to add to that difference by not allowing your son any of the resources that enable social discussion in chiildhood and teens - which unfortunately I agree is prevalently hinged on media and gadgets nowadays - and your son will be just that much more different.

    I know about this personally because it was what my parents did. I've never been quite sure why this happened but from 1963 until about mid 70s we didn't have TV in the house. My use of a transistor radio was also censored for bad influences. So I went out a lot wandering the streets, played in the garden or read. I didn't cultivate friends much so didn't see much TV in other houses. It certainly meant it wasn't advantageous for other kids to come round to my house.

    It meant I couldn't join in any of the discussion at school about what was on TV or any of the other things happening. Didn't stop the aspergers (even though it wasn't known about in those days). Didn't help the bullying I suffered, or the isolation, or the lowe self esteem and lack of self confidence.

    And we're talking here being a teenager in the 60s. You're son is going to be a teenager in the 2010s/2020s - very different age where TV, ipods, electronic games are crucial to young people's discussions. And your son is going to be deprived even of that opportunity to mix!

    You think your hairbrained scheme is going to do any good. Well its your son who will have to pay for your blinkered egotistical homespun philosophy.

    Please do some research on autism. Don't just impose your theory its curable by hiding the telly!

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