PLT Test Blog

  Super skinny is a poor role model and another driver of autism risk via ensuing endocrine problems While some types of autism cannot easily be prevented, those that relate to the lifestyle of future parents clearly can be reduced. Rather than just be shocked about an “autism epidemic”, with ever increasing prevalence, why not start doing something about it?  People are staying at home to reduce the incidence of Covid-19; the risk of autism can also be reduced. Today’s post is about the young females who, under peer pressure and Instagram pressure, choose to starve themselves in the pursuit of looking “good”. School lunches are a daily subject of conversation in our house, since I always ask Monty, now aged 16 with autism, what he had for lunch at school.   Monty’s assistant tells me that even though the lunches at school are not bad, he is one of the few to eat them all.   The boys generally just eat the meat and potatoes and do not touch the fruit, vegetables and ...

At the time of writing this post Angelina Jolie’s aunt has succumbed to the same cancer that killed Angelina’s mother and she announced that she also carried the same defective gene.   She opted to take pre-emptive action and, in effect, cheat a nasty early death from breast or ovarian cancer. I have read so much research into autism, that it is pretty clear to me, that you could calculate an Autism Risk Factor (ARF) for prospective parents, if you really wanted to.   Would you really want to?   I expect those with direct experience of autism might be in favour, the others probably would not even bother to answer the question.  Since few truly autistic people have children, it is really more of a question for their siblings; do they want Destiny’s Child? It may sound depressing, or something to do with eugenics, but actually it does not have to be.   I am not suggesting the sort of genetic and chromosome testing that is already routinely done for conditions like...