“Autism is definitely real, as is the increase in the numbers of babies born with it.”
Do you know the average age when diagnosis is made? Can it be made at birth or does is present later on?
My probably whack-o reason for its existence is that babies now are so removed from their mothers than in the past that they don’t have that important connection in their formative years.
Babies go to daycare when they’re three months old. Strange environment, lots of strangers. If that daycare full of strangers doesn’t work out after a couple months, the parents find another one and dump them there. And so it goes. It’s convenient for the kids, but what’s it doing to children’s emotional state?
They ride in cars, which can be scary for a baby or child, relegated to a back seat facing rear. They can’t even see Mommy, much less be held by her.
Who knows...?
Interesting. Thanks, MM.
You can tell within six months. Autistic children have trouble tracking your movements and responding to their parents’ voices. Also they have limited emotional responses such as smiling.
If course, what you are talking about may result in development al delays but nothing so severe as the autism I have seen. So, there is some basis for your theory.