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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, in a few years, insurance companies will deny all autism coverage by saying they shouldn’t have to pay for treatments because mom intentionally gave her kid autism by taking Tylenol. Mothers of autistic kids will be pariahs.[/quote]
What will they do with me? I have fraternal twins. One has autism and the other is neurotypical. Did all of the Tylenol only go to one baby?[/quote]

I’m also an autism parent. I hope your family is doing well and that you all are hanging in there. I say this with respect and compassion, but it’s odd to me that your experience leads you to parody people positing an environmental component. Plenty of people will say that autism “is genetic,” insinuating (or even outright saying) that whether a child has autism follows ineluctably from that child’s genes, when, in fact, the experience of twins (including monozygotic twins) shows that it surely is much more complicated than that. [/quote]

There genetic components already located.   It’s also closely related to Schizophrenia.

Regarding twins - Studies have found that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) aggregates in families, and twin studies estimate the proportion of the phenotype variance due to genetic factors (heritability) to be about 90%.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5818813/#:~:text=Studies%20have%20found%20that%20autism,)%20to%20be%20about%2090%25.

I don’t know why people can’t understand how genetic mutations happen and how far science has come with identifying where disorders come from.  Identifying the genes that can mutate is the one of the steps needed to intervene and one day completely eliminate.

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