Okay...It sounds ludicrous to me. I do know, though, that mindless marathon TV viewing has been blamed for the explosion of ADD/ADHD dxs, which I can believe, but autism?? I think not.

I can rest assured that it has nothing to do with Drew's autism. He has actually watched very little TV all his life, and he was showing signs of something being seriously wrong as young as two months old, when he was screaming and arching as I tried to hold him. I am all but certain his Chiari ties into it, and I yearn for the day I see that in print (the study is being conducted!! ), but so far, there has been no definitive cause found, and just like the recent TIME article said, there appear to be many different types of autism--not just degrees--each with its own cause(s). I have believed that for 10 years, and this comment was made at the ASA conference, too.


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