I was told that autism happens because the baby doesn’t get enough fat in his formula, and his brain doesn’t develop.
They blamed the mothers who worried about having a fat kid.
(per a Graduate student in an Epidemiology program)
I also heard it was caused from birth control pills.
I don’t mean to offend or blame anybody. I would like to be given facts to DISPROVE what I’ve been told.
(My “autism” is most likely fetal alcohol syndrome, for my mom drank beer when she carried me, and never got sick. I ended up an alcoholic beer drinker with people problems and MI.)
My kids never had formula, and we do not follow Big Gov’s faulty food pyramid. We eat a lot of coconut oil, olive oil, butter, and meat fats. We take it easy on the simple carbs. All five of us are at healthy weights, and my husband and I also weight train. The kids are extremely active. I now know that hormonal BC is the devil’s spawn, but I was off of them long before my first pregnancy (not that it was long enough).
The nurse running the hyperbaric chamber did his Ph. D. work on autism and hyperbaric chamber therapy. His theory is that for whatever reason (perhaps including those you stated) certain parts of the brain don’t get enough oxygen. This is what causes the autistic “quirks”; i.e., humming, arm flapping, stimming, chewing on objects, etc. The hyperbaric chamber helps the brain create more capillaries, and therefore more oxygen can reach more areas.