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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
Bottom line is it's very hard to diagnose and treat and this ruling today is going to be a major blow to those who are tyring to forward the cause to get autism cured.
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I'll agree with others who I don't really think this is the case. And I, too, wonder if the "rise" we seen in ASDs is really a rise in occurrence or better diagnosis of people who once might have been dismissed as "odd" (or "stupid" or "problems.") (My purely personal feeling is that it is some of both.)
Believe me, even though I tend to be a "life happens, deal with it and move on" kind of guy, I can identify with all of those parents who want to understand
why this happened to their kid, and who, if possible, want to understand if there is a way to "reverse it" or at least keep it from happening to other kids. But sometimes, it just doesn't work out to be that simple.
All the latest research I've seen (and certainly the "anecdotal research" suggests) that there is a genetic component. But I know lots of parents who can identify what seem to be environmental factors that either seem to be commonplace or that seem to make a difference in treatment and improvement. Whether they really are part of the problem (or solution), only time and research can tell.
I know parents who will refuse to believe vaccines are not the/a culprit. I know many others who say "okay, that's been ruled out, what else do we need to look at?"
The bottom line is that when it's your kid, you can be desperate for answers, whether they are the right answers or not. But I think all the questions need to be asked; otherwise, there's no way to separate the right answers from the wrong ones.