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Difference between those diagnosed early to those diagnosed later

TheCatWoman

According to research theres different genes involved in those diagnosed as young children to those diagnosed later in life and certainly those of us who were diagnosed as adults. The research states that theres no one cause of autism and that multiple genes are involved.

There's an article on it in todays Guardian newspaper.

Parents

  • I don’t have the knowledge to interpret how rigorous the methodology is. To me it seems like the database of those identified as autistic is limited and much is based on algorithms predicting approximations. That said, perhaps social factors have played more of a hand in these results.

    Usually the Guardian is fairly reliable and the scientific community hold ‘Nature’ in high regard, so I am open to the conclusion.

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  • I don’t have the knowledge to interpret how rigorous the methodology is. To me it seems like the database of those identified as autistic is limited and much is based on algorithms predicting approximations. That said, perhaps social factors have played more of a hand in these results.

    Usually the Guardian is fairly reliable and the scientific community hold ‘Nature’ in high regard, so I am open to the conclusion.

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I don't either, but I posted about it because I thought it would be of interest.

    It has made me wonder if one can become more autistic with age? I'm sure I've become more autistic as I've got older, have more trouble socialising etc than I did when I was younger, maybe once I'm left school I just found people I was more comfortable with, people who were generally more accepting of difference and embraced it?

    I've also wondered for a long time how much environment plays a role, being brought up an only child, but another only child and only really playing with one other child before I went to school, I wonder if some of this is learnt? Do I have problems socialising because I wasn't exposed to it until I went to school? If some psychologists are right and we learn about 70% of our social behaviour by the age of 7, then I only had less than two years to learn stuff that I should of learnt at a much earlier age?