Reply #52: That's just absurd; [View All]

[Spider Jerusalem]

the neurological differences present in autism are of such a nature and degree that they MUST have been present from early in gestation; autism isn't caused by watching television, or bad parenting, or vaccination. It's the result of significant differences in brain structure. Autistics have a higher proportion of white matter (connective neural tissue) to grey matter than do "neurotypicals"; there are also significant structural differences in the amygdala, hippocampal cortex, cerebellum, corpus callosum, temporal and frontal lobes (these differences vary between autistic individuals; someone with classical autism will show more neurological difference than someone with Asperger's Syndrome).