>>11370500>Anything other than a simple muh genes gave me 'tism garbage.nobody here is arguing that. a child's immune response to foreign viral particles and media cause more rapid development of the brain, as it would be detrimental for the brain to keep specializing while there are viruses floating around in the bloodstream because if they infect specialized tissue the organism would be more dysfunctional/less likely to survive
the regions of the cortex associated with mirror neurons and emotions does not fully articulate, meaning they are hypersensitive to input signalling from each other. this is why the aspd person tends to be a passive people pleaser, avoids emotionally charged confrontations
high functioning autism is a complete miscategorization when positioned next to autism with profound disability (true autism), which is an incomplete or even non-existent specialization of mirror neurons as well as the frontal lobes being hyperconnected to one or more areas of the sensory cortex (causing the amplified response to stimuli of the senses i.e. loud noises, certain textures, and so on). this could be caused by any number of agents encountered in the womb. in any case, not genetic.
vaccines cause autism