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[–] -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

The food supply is radically different to 50 years ago, let alone 100, 1000 and 10000 years ago. There is reason to believe brain structures are changed by diet.

I'm sure there were undiagnosed autistic people throughout history, but I reckon the glut of diagnoses now is due to food

Ed. Right. So the highly processed food and ubiquitous sugar couldn't possibly have anything to do with it. I'm so glad that Lemmy people know so much that they can exclude this hypothesis so easily and without even commenting

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    There were always undiagnosed autistic people throughout history. The world and the sciences we live with were discovered by high functioning people with neurological differences.

    Science, religion, math, everything.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago*

    right, only autistic people ever contributed to science or math or anything of social worth?

    this is where you guys go off the rails. You know who also disproportionately contributed to the arts and sciences? Jewish people.

    you know the other factor that most 'geniuses' had in common? they were from wealthy families.

    rich jewish autistic folks are clearly the trifecta of pure geniuses, right?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Yeah the literature coming out on the metabolic brain connection, and improving metabolism resolving psychiatric disorders can't be ignored.

    Given we are in a metabolic health crisis that is only trending up, it'd reasonable to speculate it has had a impact on larger mental health trends since the metabolic health collapse started.

    I.e. 96% of western adults have impaired metabolic health.

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