In a recent article in Neuroscience News, researchers have decided to shift the blame for autistic children from mothers to fathers. Remember the old research that said older mothers were to blame for autistic kids, oh, and those moms that took Tylenol during pregnancy …. or … received a vaccine. Quackery! Now, the quacks have turned their sights on fathers. It turns out, they say, that we autistics get more of our genetic material from our fathers than our mothers.
“They discovered thousands of genes that, when damaged, may cause a child to be born with ASD. But their work was not able to account for all cases of ASD.”
“No one is sure how dad’s genome makes its mark on children with ASD. But Iossifov has a couple interesting ideas. He thinks some fathers may carry protective mutations that fail to get passed on. Or fathers may pass down mutations that trigger the mother’s immune system to attack the developing embryo. Both theories offer hope for parents of children with ASD and other neurological disorders like schizophrenia.”
So maybe it’s my mom’s fault that her system attacked me in the womb? Or is it dad’s fault for not providing protections to me in the womb?
First they blamed our mothers, now our fathers.
First they blamed our mothers, now our fathers.
First they blamed our mothers, now our fathers.
In a recent article in Neuroscience News, researchers have decided to shift the blame for autistic children from mothers to fathers. Remember the old research that said older mothers were to blame for autistic kids, oh, and those moms that took Tylenol during pregnancy …. or … received a vaccine. Quackery! Now, the quacks have turned their sights on fathers. It turns out, they say, that we autistics get more of our genetic material from our fathers than our mothers.
“They discovered thousands of genes that, when damaged, may cause a child to be born with ASD. But their work was not able to account for all cases of ASD.”
“No one is sure how dad’s genome makes its mark on children with ASD. But Iossifov has a couple interesting ideas. He thinks some fathers may carry protective mutations that fail to get passed on. Or fathers may pass down mutations that trigger the mother’s immune system to attack the developing embryo. Both theories offer hope for parents of children with ASD and other neurological disorders like schizophrenia.”
So maybe it’s my mom’s fault that her system attacked me in the womb? Or is it dad’s fault for not providing protections to me in the womb?
How on earth does this help autistic people?