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hunter

(38,311 posts)
1. I'm very well vaccinated and exposed to numerous dental materials.
Thu Nov 13, 2014, 04:58 PM
Nov 2014

But autism in my family is very clearly genetic.

The somewhat functional autistics, the useful autistics like my rocket scientist grandfather and the non-autistics like one of my grandfather's sisters, they supported the entirely dysfunctional autistics as far back as I can trace in the family tree.

I have a great aunt who lived alone in her family subsidized apartment, only venturing out for food. I met her only once, she did not like social gatherings. Whatever insights she had about the human condition are lost because mental illness was something to be kept in the closet.




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