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Air pollution emerges as critical environmental risk factor for autism, emerging topic review finds (www.eurekalert.org)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/autism
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The timing of exposure appears crucial, with heightened vulnerability during prenatal development and early childhood when critical neurodevelopmental processes occur.

The research suggests that individuals with genetic predisposition to ASD may be more vulnerable to the harmful effects of air pollution exposure

The implications extend beyond individual health to public policy. How might cities need to adapt their urban planning to protect vulnerable populations? What role could air quality monitoring play in prenatal care?

Actually I don't see why anything would be done to orevent development of autism, when not much was done for all the already known damage that actual urban development cause

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

**This is fake, not peer reviewed and an attempt to sell a fake cure by a quack. **

If this gives off Andrew Wakefield vibes to you, you are not alone. The "journal" is a huge red flag since the homepage is full of blatantly AI generated images (see below). It appears to have published very little else and appears to have been set up by the second name on the paper and corresponding author, Haitham Amal.

Amal, looking at his LinkedIn, appears to have also recently been appointed to the position at Neuro-nos, a company that describes itself as developing a non-FDA medical cure for autism and dementia.

I'm absolutely not saying that it can't be the case, nor that reducing pollutants from cars (and making more of them) would benefit everyones health. Just in this case, it is a blatant scam that will likely end up subjecting autistic children to god knows what side effects so this guy and his friends can make more money.

[–] grue 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Urban development doesn't cause air pollution. Cars cause air pollution.

There's a difference.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How many cars, how much they are driven and how they are driven, depend on urban development.

Urban development -> cars -> pollution

If you want less cars going around, design your cities to allow and incentivize people not to use them. See recent developments in Paris as an example:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Industry also causes air pollution and plenty of it. It's more visually segregated in developed countries. But as an example, have you ever explored the Pakistani factory video genre on Youtube?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

¿Por qué no los dos?

[–] grue 4 points 2 days ago

Because dense urban development is good, actually, and we don't need people posting pro-sprawl misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

... It really is a shame that they still make it seem that being autistic is a problem...

If they found that it increases your chances of being gay or something, I'm sure their language would be much more respectful (if they published it at all).

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean being autistic is a problem, in the same way losing a leg is a problem. It's not something to make a fuss about and definitely not something to hate people for, but people with even high-functioning autism definitely struggle with many things, and when you get to low-functioning autism it's a straight up disability.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm of the opinion that a lot of the "problems" with autism come from societal issues and lack of education rather than an innate thing.

Everyone has problems they need to work through. It's just that autistic people don't get the support they need.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As someone who struggles with it, you have absolutely no idea what the hell you’re talking about. Even if I had all the support in the world my life would still be struggle day in and day out, because it’s so much deeper than just being different. I understand why people try and make it seem that way, but it seriously minimizes what it actually is.

[–] flicker 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My godson is low to mid functioning and people like the one you're replying to don't realize that they're playing into the hands of people who want to cut help and financial aid for autism as a disability. "It's not really a disability" is extremely harmful.

But also I think society has done a great harm in hiding the most disabled among us. People hear autism and think some asshole on TV who plays as a savant. They don't think of the 17-year-old man who can't use the restroom and can only eat two food types despite years of therapy, who becomes violent if he can't watch YouTube on demand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On the flip side, there's also the people who say that autism is nothing more than a disability that needs to be cured. This is probably what that they were referring to. Both extremes are harmful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I would appreciate low functioning autism being cured. It is a hellish existence for a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

This has nazi europe vibes when you actually read it