What's the Deal with Autism Rates?

Re:What's the Deal with Autism Rates? by WarOnPrivacy on Sunday April 27, 2025 @04:36PM (#43814905)

My First and Fifth are autistic. All births were full term.

1st 8lb. 2nd 8lb, 3rd 10.5lb, 4th and 5th 6.5lb ea (twins). None were c-section.

First 3 were home or birth center, last had to be hospital. My wife had good BMI for the start of each pregnancy.

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Re:What's the Deal with Autism Rates? by BrandoElFollito on Sunday April 27, 2025 @05:01PM (#43815098)

I do not really understand what conclusion to draw from this.

A friend of mine has 8 childen and none are autistic. All were born at the hospital (this is where you give birth in France), all were notmal weight and so was the mom (and dad)

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Re:What's the Deal with Autism Rates? by WarOnPrivacy on Sunday April 27, 2025 @09:05PM (#43816554)

I believe the conclusion is things like birth weight and mom's bmi aren't primary drivers of autism.

What led to increased diagnosis of autism was evaluating more kids who had autism.

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