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I think this poster has an axe to grind, but there is definitely significant overlap between symptoms of child abuse/neglect and early signs of ASD and other mental disabilities. I am on mobile, and cannot right now give a compact source, but the lists on Mayo etc. have a lot of overlap.

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There's also overlap between a stab wound and a heart attack. You may say there's a cardiac related problem, but you don't have a stab wound just because you have some of the overlapping symptoms.

Neglect can cause a host of behavioral and neurological issues but they're not autism. Medical literature consensus is pretty clear on this. It was a popular theory many decades ago. It's not held up to scrutiny.

> but you don't have a stab wound just because you have some of the overlapping symptoms

Nobody said this was true for autism. Only that resulting misdiagnoses may be contributing to the uptick.

Nobody qualified did. But the parent that started this thread did.

> If you leave a child alone with no human contact, it becomes autistic very quickly. So there's definitely types of autism that come from parenting.

Medical literature and consensus says autism is one disorder with a spectrum of symptoms and that Aspbergers is not a unique disorder and that is currently wrong. So citing some other very similar research isn't going to do anything for me.

Autistic children are born not caring for faces, or eyes, and social interaction. Feral children do not have eyes or faces or social interaction to look at. So if it's not technically autism, it's not any different than the myriad of disorders currently lumped together as autism.

Perhaps you should be more upfront when using a personal, not medically accepted definition of a condition when discussing its root causes

What's the point of using the medically accepted definition of a condition when it is wrong?

> What's the point of using the medically accepted definition of a condition when it is wrong?

Since you seem to have no opposition to using personal definitions of things based on personal opinions without feeling the need to clarify, I'm glad you agree with me 100%

If you want to actually engage with the topic instead of trying to start shit with me, that would be a lot more productive.

If you want to communicate, don't assert facts about things while secretly using your own definitions. That would be a lot more pudding.

In this case, to be clear, pudding means productive.

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