Does watching TV cause Autism ?

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 wasn't stuck in front of gadgets as a child, neither was my brother. We both have Autism. We were brought up the same way as my non-Autistic sister. As a child, we only really had a TV, a console and one computer. I do not believe that Amish community have no cases of Autism. They probably do; but they may not recognise it. Some of us are harder to diagnose and are sometimes diagnosed with other stuff.
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  • I wasn't stuck in front of gadgets as a child, neither was my brother. We both have Autism. We were brought up the same way as my non-Autistic sister. As a child, we only really had a TV, a console and one computer. I do not believe that Amish community have no cases of Autism. They probably do; but they may not recognise it. Some of us are harder to diagnose and are sometimes diagnosed with other stuff.
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