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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]PS - I have a lot of Irish ancestors. While there's a lot of mythology associated with being Irish, this is the first I've heard that autism is part of it.[/quote]

It isn't. The study is in Northern Ireland, which during the Troubles was not a good place to live. New studies are showing that when people live under extreme deprivation PLUS constant stress genes may be altered. (The children of those who survived concentration camps also seem to have genetic changes.https://www.research.va.gov/currents/1016-3.cfm)

So, this isn't relevant to those of us whose ancestors came from other parts of Ireland and/or who emigrated a long time ago. It's not being Irish--or Jewish--or anything else that is linked to these genetic changes. It's the enviroment your parents were in.

Nor does this have anything to do with intermarriage, at least for Irish Catholics. The Catholic Church is much stricter about intermarriage than civil laws. You can't marry anyone who is a 4th cousin or closer. There were a lot more intermarriages among close relatives in colonial New England than in Ireland. In many US states you can marry your first cousin.

Next, the whole "Silicon Valley" type industry did NOT occur in Northern Ireland. Companies did not build new facilities that could be destroyed by terrorists in "Bomb Alley," which is what the High Sreet in Belfast was called during the Troubles. The whole tech revolution was confined to the Republic. It's also irrelevant here.

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I am from the uk. You do know that this is not the Northern Ireland of the 1970s-1990s right? This is Northern Ireland today - which is, while not the richest area, decidedly not the deprived, war torn hellscape you seem to think. [/quote]

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