Above is a recent article released on the cause of autism
and every once in a while I do Google it to see what comes up. Not to discover
the cause by the way because anyone who has a child with autism knows doing
that is like jumping in a pool of sharks covered in chum and expecting to climb
out in one piece. It’s completely unrealistic at this point and the information
comes at you in every direction. So here is the latest and it points to
genetics and mice like so many other articles we see.
Genetics,
a word I have always had an interest in even as a kid. I am adopted and this
was made clear to me as far back as I can remember. My appearance was not that
of the rest of my family and so many times growing up my ears perked right up
at the word genetics because I was always interested in my own. Those tiny or
tiny masses of links to who you are and where you come from. How you got your
blonde hair, blue eyes, body type, and even personality traits. Often times
inherited diseases such addiction or even cancer. I have even learned a
thinking style can be linked to genetics because I have a strong stubborn
streak very much like my biological brother among other things I have in common
with my biological siblings.
Do I
think of genetics when it comes to autism? Yes I do but at the same time I
always question why. Why is autism taking on such a strong impact on our
genetics and how are so many families carrying this genetic change or mutation we
often here it called. It’s not the genetic connection I question it’s the
genetic element all together. Ok, we understand there is a genetic factor but
there are many families who do not have one hint of autism in the family tree,
not one genetic link that is known, until now. Now they have a child or
children with autism so the genetic factor must now be there right? Even if we
were to say a heavy dose of vaccines triggered the autism gene we still go to
that genetic connection that doesn’t exist in the family history.
I
always have this silly mental picture in my head when I read an article that
mentions mice with autism behaviors or these genetic changes. I imagine these
little mice ignoring each other and running top speed all around their cage.
Maybe there are lining up there food or possibly refusing to eat it at all and they
don’t like to be touched on a bad day. Mice can’t speak and certainly a mouse
with autistic behaviors might not communicate like the rest but if it could I
think what the furry little thing would say is “what has happened to my
genetics and why did they change?” and there are thousands of people wondering
the same thing.
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