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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s going to get worse. I am a school psychologist and when I look at the younger siblings of students at the school I am at really worried about how many if them are in strollers staring at screens. Phones and tablets are an effective and cheap babysitter. It’s a low income school where kids don’t have the opportunity to get signed up for activities where they interact.

If there are kids on the spectrum who are borderline with a lot of socialization with parents, siblings, friends, quality pre-schools, attending story times, etc. they might not ever have enough symptoms to have issues or get diagnosed. Now add COVID lock down to that mix where kids didn’t socialize at all for a year not even with cousins. We are seeing kids who are coming in to K with lower language and socialization skills across the board. It’s really, really concerning. [/quote]

Cool refrigerator mom theory, bro. But lower socialization/language skills do not an autistic child make. Unless you’re a psychologist who doesn’t know what they are talking about. Again, the problems with over expansion of a diagnosis.

And incidentally… My autistic son watched zero screens until he was 3.5 when I changed his routine a bit to help him diversify his interests. And they found a genetic CAUSE to his autism. [/quote]

Brains in young children are very malleable, right? So why couldn't watching terrible videos over and over not change the brain to make it appear autistic, the way high quality interaction changes it beneficial ways? [/quote]

You would have to prove that screens fundamentally result in changes to the pre frontal cortex. It’s unlikely. 
More like is we have a crap definition of autism and should not be lumping any and all social deficiencies under this one diagnosis

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6055909/[/quote]

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