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AllegedAlec
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> autism is considered a disease or generic defect
It is.
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loriverkutya
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It’s considered as a mental disorder, not a disease or a genetic defect.
AllegedAlec
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That's bandying words. Mental disorder, illness and disease are used pretty interchangably. Furthermore, there's oodles of literature on ASD susceptibility genes.
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