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Study: Kids born during COVID-19 pandemic don't have higher autism risk

www.upi.com Study: Kids born during COVID-19 pandemic don't have higher autism risk - UPI.com

Kids born during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic appear to have no higher risk of autism, even if they were exposed to COVID in the womb, a new study finds.

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I don't see why these 2 would be related, but isn't it early to be concluding this if these kids are only like 3 years old?
- Likely it was a study because there are too many stupid people that believe that vaccines cause autism. Society as a whole has lost the ability to critical think.
  
  Yeah, I guess there's some value in proving a negative.
  
  Early therapy is more effective, as well as less potentially traumatizing. To the point that false positives aren't really a concern.
  
  The most effective therapies just seem like heavilly supervised play-time to your average young kiddo.
It pains me that we actually needs to do a study on this.
Negative results are still results!
That's a pity, we would benefit from more scientists and engineers.
- Rather hurtful stereotype.
“Risk”. Imagine thinking being autistic is a bad thing.
- I'm autistic and think it is mostly a bad thing.
  
  You might want to find some (better) support. The progressive view is that autism is neither good nor bad - just different - and most of the "issues" with being autistic stem from a lack of understanding and accommodation from the rest of society.
- They should have said "rates".
- People self diagnosing as autistic on the Internet may be all fun and games, but autistic people can have a massively hard time and be incredibly hard to be around. Coping with an autistic child can just break a family.
  
  The archetype of autistic as "extremely smart but socially awkward" has been crazy to see, and I think it diminishes the plight of people that are struggling. People self diagnosing and using "neurotypical" as an insult has been such a bad turn.

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