Can you actually get autism post-birth?

[Colon capital V]

I know everyone jokes about having 'tism all over the web with vaccines and it being a requirement when signing up here, but like can you actually develop autism from outside stuff?

 

[Little oak tree]

Yes it's like a psychological virus

 

[Little oak tree]

No, shit, sorry for double-posting but it's more like a Hive Mind fungi that seeks to expand itself through every human brain.

 

[♦️ King of Diamonds ♦️]

You know that nightmare Raskolnikov has at the end of Crime and Punishment where a deadly mind-plague sweeps across the world and drives the infected mad because they all believe they are the only person in existence who understands and knows of the absolute highest truth so they all start killing eachother?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Maybe autism is a genetic vulnerability that's activated by environmental factor?



(@The Littlest Shitlord may know more of the research on this)

 

[Ultrapenguin]

My belief is that 'tistic traits are entirely natural elements of human neurological function, so a person is varyingly predisposed to them due to genetics or prenatal factors, and its worsened by a whole bunch of environmental factors.

The issue is that nowadays everyone thinks they have the tism because they're constantly stressed, have shitty diets, have way higher social demands than at any other point, poor sleep schedules, etc. and then they're like "Oh I'm neurotic and I'm weird about eye contact and feel emotionally numb and get mad easily and I'm obsessive, I must be an autist"

It's just like fucking adhd at this point: when you're reaching a situation where well into the double digits of a population have a certain "disorder" then either they're mistaken or it clearly can't be called a disorder anymore.

 

[Cats]

Autism is a well known side effect of Nintendo (electronic television games) and Anime (chinese cartoons)

 

[WolfeTone]

Autism is actually a developmental disease, it's not genetic. There might be a genetic factor but it's not classified as a genetic disease. It has to do with how the neural pathways and synapses organize and prune themselves as we grow from thoughtless babies into creatures with more cerebral functionality than anything else on earth. A good example is mycelial networks, since the electrical pathways shot through them is more resembling of the brain than anything else in nature, which is mostly biochemical factories. If you cut away too many mycelial networks you get autism, if they're too densely clustered you get schizophrenia. Both can potentially work and both can work very efficiently, IF there's a remaining structure there, but at the same time there are gaps in functionality in both sets of pathways, for instance autistics not being able to "grasp" certain concepts that are considered normal, and schizophrenics having a clustering of strange and outlandish thoughts that don't resemble normal thinking either. I'm of the belief that through cognitive training, both can be rehabilitated into functional tools, but maybe, just maybe, we need not look at every single brain as a hammer or a calculator, but instead appreciate the differences and capitalize on them in an appropriate way.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Yes, and liking Thomas the Tank Engine as an adult was responsible for my autism.

 

[Little oak tree]

Autism is actually a developmental disease, it's not not genetic. There might be a genetic factor but it's not classified as a genetic disease. It has to do with how the neural pathways and synapses organize and prune themselves as we grow from thoughtless babies into creatures with more cerebral functionality than anything else on earth. A good example is mycelial networks, since the electrical pathways shot through them is more resembling of the brain than anything else in nature, which is mostly biochemical factories. If you cut away too many mycelial networks you get autism, if they're too densely clustered you get schizophrenia. Both can potentially work and both can work very efficiently, IF there's a remaining structure there, but at the same time there are gaps in functionality in both sets of pathways, for instance autistics not being able to "grasp" certain concepts that are considered normal, and schizophrenics having a clustering of strange and outlandish thoughts that don't resemble normal thinking either. I'm of the belief that through cognitive training, both can be rehabilitated into functional tools, but maybe, just maybe, we need not look at every single brain as a hammer or a calculator, but instead appreciate the differences and capitalize on them in an appropriate way.

Because of the interplay Wolfie, the interplay of wanting to make this Chaotic incomprehensible world "Literal" and concrete, to give it a meaning, and the mad natural wish of liberation that naturally comes from being, like every human, a child of Chaos. The need to dissolve and discover, the need for Death.
The need to make an order and the need for destruction, the balance, ABRAXAS.

No, shit, sorry for double-posting but it's more like a Hive Mind fungi that seeks to expand itself through every human brain.
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In the sense of being metaphor-blind, I think the general population is collectively crippled in that sense.
Wolfie gave me the idea that there is also the Fungi of Schizophrenia devouring minds, and the ultimate syncretization of both pure essences of fungi produce the elixir of Life