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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Autism is a medical condition causing brain inflammation.   I wonder how many years it will take for this to be accepted ?  How many kids will suffer, how many families will suffer?

There are so many groups trying to normalize autism, saying it's not a bad thing.  That will hinder the search for a cause and a cure or prevention.

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+100[/quote]

I also think they'll eventually find that a least a large subset of ASD is inflammatory.  PANDAS-caused ASD behavior is clearly inflammatory (and to an outsider, the behavior in that transient period looks identical to ASD).  And small scale studies of kids diagnosed with ASD show statistically significant improvement in symptoms on steroid treatment (regression once the steroids inevitably have to be stopped).  [/quote]

I’m not sure what’s worse: this kind of pseudoscience bullshit pushing harmful treatments (steroids are no joke); or the adult “autism”
community interfering with the development and deployment of effective therapies; or the online self-diagnoses “autism community” blathering on about masking.

FWIW my DS supposedly on the spectrum is exactly like his dad, cousin and uncle. It’s not inflammation or a virus. [/quote]

The people posting and reposting this “inflammation” and “gut biome” BS sound like MLM shillers.[/quote]

Or Harvard researchers! Harvard https://hms.harvard.edu/news/gut-brain-connection-autism[/quote]

This isn’t a “new “ thing or something that most parents see as bs. I’d say at least 75% if not more of the families I’ve worked with have caught on to this and FWIW it wasn’t because I told them about it (that’s outside my scope of professional practice). While I don’t think it’s a stand alone solution / possibility to such a complex issue I’m grateful there are more people studying this as I think there’s potentially more to it than people realize. I definitely see a difference between children that have parents who focus on internal healing through diet and nutrition in addition to other therapies. Yes it’s anecdotal observations but it certainly isn’t taboo as many people here seem to think. There’s just not enough specific research to be conclusive at this point. That certainly won’t stop parents from continuing to focus on this as part of their journey so I welcome the research. I think it’s something that warrants further investigative studies because more parents do question this whether they say it out loud to peers often or not. I just happen to work in an intrusive job where I see pretty much everything each parent is trying at any given time and get histories of what has been tried previously. The only thing really taboo about it is that people think talking about it is taboo. Not saying it’s the cause it’s just worth looking into further.[/quote]

oh ffs. if researchers actually wanted to know whether diet impacts autism they would do a *credible* RCT on it. have they? let’s see those. until then - it is all woo.

but yes, you can find garbage research on it, that is touted by university comms, then reported credulously by the media.

eg: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6566629/?report=reader (did they ever disclose the underlying data?)[/quote]

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