The number of people being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has risen sharply in recent decades, and research continues to look at factors involved in these conditions.

As someone born in the 80s, raised on plastic (even my baby bottles) and has IGA Nephropathy this interesting to me.

  • SavvyWolfEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The control group was 37 people and the asd people were all recruited from the same place and were the same age (so genetic diversity is a concern).

    I don’t really trust the findings of this paper because of the same size. The article also leads with the “autism diagnosises have risen in recent years” dogwhistle…