Autism Gene Discovery

I think like with all ailments people in research keep coming up with different causes and affects, I hope if they have found something that may be of some help in the near future for the people who suffer with this it would be wonderful, I hope they can win on this one and soon.

I missed it. Any progress is positive, of course. But for myself and my son I will feel more hopeful when they find a way to apply the knowledge. If they can... It reminds me of a book I read, recommended to me here on myLot, actually, "The Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon, as well as an article I read a few years back "Don't Cure Autism". It makes me wonder what, if do do find a "cure", we will be losing as far as unique thinking and so on...

I didn't see it, but I am glad to hear that Autism is being talked about more. Anything that sheds light on Autism is a good thing. Thanks for the info.

I saw that news report and I think it's great they are so much closer to understanding. This is something that effects millions of people and if they could just find out the cause and home in a a cure or a prevention technique it would be great for humanity.

I know there are a lot of factors with autism. Heard them all from shots to genes to they natural sugars in our foods disappearing. I know what it is and how it works, but I still seriously doubt there will be firm answers because all the factors really target the larger companies. General autisum is re-training the brain because the pathway is missing. This can be done, but needs to be caught early and speciality diets need to coinside with all the efforts taking to reverse or retraining of the young mind. Yes there needs to be more studies done, there needs to be more awareness. I think the key factor is genetics, but there are so much in our foods that effect us and children and that I truely believe is a major factor here. Even the mix of immunizations was changed. All these factors tie in together. We need to get back to the basics of unprocessed foods and sugars. Food allergies were very popular at one time. I remember news clip after news clip where children were just out of control after simply drinking a glass of orange juice. That was our first warning signs to how out of control our foods are and how they are effecting us. I've seen people change thier diets and medications can disappear. In all honesty, they never needed them at all, they just had to re-direct what they were giving themselves I could go on and on with this, but yes I'm glad that they are finally taking an interest infinding answers because the cases have more than doubled over the years. Years ago we would just lable a child 'slow' or limited but now there is a reason and a cause that they are actually looking into. I sincerely hope the end result will be truthful in informing the public how this is happing at such an excelled rate.