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Have we even found a single link between habits/conditions of pregnancy and ADHD/autism yet? I feel like every time I hear these stories, it’s a repeat of the last study’s findings.
I want to see a modern study on cigerette smoking.
When I was a kid (early 90s), my mom defended her decision to not stop smoking when she was pregnant with me, by quoting a study from the 1970s. They found it did not cause any ill effects.
Well around 2005 I was poking around the internet, and found that yes, that study was reported exactly how she claimed, and was performed by the Nixon administration.
It was also funded by Marlborrow. So take that study with a salt mine worth of salt.
I want a new modern independant study done. Because my mom never stopped, and I have always felt like something is wrong with me, but I'm too dumb to put it into words. I'm not calling it autism, but it feels like there's a mental blockade preventing me from being me. I don't know how to explain it.
I can't access this link but I may have been part of that study as a kid! My mother smoked almost all the way through her pregnancy with me and I went through a bunch of tests over about 10 years to see if it caused my allergies. I never got to see what the study actually said about it though.
Only if you were born between 1997 and 2006!
Fair! I was born a decade too early for this one 😅 but there was another conducted in Denver, Colorado in the 90s that I was in!
what study was that? i have a hunch that it said less than you think. by 1964 there was a surgeon general's report and meta-analysis that showed smoking had lots of ill effects on the smoker including "low birth weight" and the 1979 report and meta-analysis found "The more the mother smokes, the greater the baby's birth-weight reduction"
check out https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44697/table/ch5.t1
A substantial body of evidence links maternal infection during pregnancy to adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring. Large national registry studies have reported increased risks of neuropsychiatric disease such as autism spectrum disorder, cognitive delay, schizophrenia, and mood disorders after in utero exposure to maternal infections.
Cigarettes, alcohol, street drugs. Most other things are benign.
There's general risk with some foods as well, like raw seafood/meat, seafood high in mercury, and unpasteurized dairy.
which to be fair are things most people know aren't "clean", as such.
It's pretty obvious that there's a hereditary component to ADHD/autism. But it's one of those things that needs further study to prove and since it's difficult to test these medications on pregnant women, it takes longer.
Duh! Everyone knows it's the vaccines that do that.
Wait, or is it 5G? I get my conspiracies mixed up sometimes...