Tv triggering autism study
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| Tue, 11-07-2006 - 1:34pm |
I'm sure many of you heard about this study so I'm not bothering posting it. I didn't even really regard this study as it's an unscientific, unpublished study so I just dismissed it. Also to mention, the study has many other flaws. But the real kicker is now it's circulated as bona fide news. I have had so many people bring this up to me. "Did you know autism is caused by watching too much tv?" Seriously, folks. I can't believe out of everything there is to learn about autism, that people have been repeatedly bringing this up to me and dh. I'm talking family, friends, and coworkers. There has been a loss of thinking skills, despite being in an information age. People just want to be spoonfed information just like they want their food tossed to them through a window. (Okay, I'm guilty of doing the window thing on occasion, just to out myself). Still, it's an apropos analogy. They don't ask questions or analyze.
There IS something to the correlation between rainy states and autism. The numbers are indicative of something...but cable subscription rates? This just smacks to me of STILL trying to blame the parents. Refrigerator mothers all over again. We just stick our kids in front of the tv. I know for a fact I watched way more tv than my kids and I don't have epilepsy or chronic diarrhea. Oregon and Washington also have a higher rate of meningitis...maybe that's from watching television too. Maybe those few Amish kids with autism were secretly watching tv when they were 6 months old too.
I am angry. I am angry of years of defending my parenting being the cause of my children's issues. The innuendo from relatives and teachers who work to exacerbate a family problem instead of problem solving. I am angry that it's viewed as a mental disorder and not a bona fide medical issue. I am not telling these people the depth of my anger since I know they really are ignorant and don't understand. Maybe I would have been one of the too. But it still hurts.

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I don't know, LR.
Well, I'm not surprised.
I've had a bad feeling about tomato juice.
Yeah, it's red, thick and icky and kind of stares at you from the fridge just daring you to take a swig.....evil stuff
'scuse me must go and plop Liam down for his hourly dose of cable, or else he might be cured all of a sudden and then what would I do with my dull mediocre life???!!! ;)
Dee
sarcasm, sarcasm.
Personally, I am with Amy. It is ALL the teletubbies fault. I knew there was something up with that darn Twinkie Winkie!
Seriously thought LR, that tics me off too. Not the study, it is too stupid to tic me off. What steams me is people buying it and then giving thier oppinions on it too parents like we don't feel bad enough already about stuff.
I should be hearing about it any day. Maybe that is why my inlaws wanted us to come over last weekend. They tend to buy into every new theory that comes down the tracks and we get to hear about it. Sometimes they have a good point and others, well.....this aught to be fun.
Renee
Well, since I have 2 AS kids and 2 NT kids, I guess I must have picked out my favorites and shielded them from the TV, so they didn't end up with AS. Fortunately I haven't seen the study, and no one has brought it up to me, but I wonder how they'd explain how only two of them ended up with AS?! And, since my AS kids look and behave so much like their AS dad, I wonder if that's just mere coincidence?!
ITA with you concerning stupid studies.
ROFLMBO!
That totally explains why I get freaked out at the sight of tomato juice.
...so the Godfather movie got it wrong. It should have been:
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