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  The Olso to Bergen line is one of Europe’s most beautiful railways   I did have another sense of déjà vu, when I read about the big spike in autism in one city in Norway.   Norway is a very expensive country, but well worth a visit.   We enjoyed it.   One of Monty’s former 1:1 assistants emigrated to Norway to work in their excellently funded special needs therapy system.   A decade ago, there was a peak in media interest in Somali autism clusters in Sweden, Minneapolis and San Diego. Refugees had been taken to live in far away lands, with very different environmental conditions.   They soon started to produce children with a very high incidence of autism. This was a surprise to all the academics and a shock to the parents.    The Somali-Swedes even started calling it the Swedish disease, because they had never encountered such children before in Somalia.   Swedish study dissects autism risk in immigrants Swedish migration: ...

  Today’s post returns to the theme of reducing the incidence/severity of future autism and introduces another factor that helps explain why girls have some degree of protection from autism. The focus today is on female hormones and progesterone in particular. It does look like hormones can play a role in both triggering and potentially treating some autism, but it is not an area likely to be followed up on in the mainstream. We have seen previously in this blog that some infertility experts find an association between miscarriage and autism. One US fertility doctor has a prevent miscarriages website and a prevent autism website, because his feeling is that by reducing miscarriage risk, you may also reduce autism risk. He was shocked by how many of his fertility patients have other offspring with autism. This should really be common sense. ·         In-utero stress increases the chance of a miscarriage ·       ...

    Salem College   Today’s post is the first of two new ones about preventing/minimizing future autism.   The second post will be about Dr Ramaekers’ idea of using Calcium Folinate, which he has already put into use in human parents seeking to avoid autism in their next child.  Before we start, I should point out that while readers of this blog, and it seems Dr Ramaekers, likely wish that autism and its symptoms did not exist, there are some people, well paid to research autism, who think autism is a good thing. I really do wonder why such people receive any public funding and wonder what kind of University would employ such people. It is like researching deafness, but not wanting to treat it - better they stay home. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200824091958.htm Simon Baron-Cohen, PhD, Director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge, who co-led the study, added, "Some people may be worried that basic research into differences in the auti...