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Autism study finds link with plastic exposure during pregnancy (www.newsweek.com)

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The team fears that the ubiquity of plastic products means avoiding BPA is a near-impossible task.

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[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

sighs

No.

Just no.

Stop trying to find a 'cure' for us.

We aren't going away.

[–] Midnight@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think this is about making autistic people go away or find a "cure". Even if we eliminated all BPA magically, people are still going to be born with autism.

As the study explains, its probably only one element of how autism develops, but understanding how environmental toxins effect human development is important.

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 0 points 2 months ago

Autism is not a disease, illness or anything like that. Even if it is not your intention you are framing it that way

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 9 points 2 months ago

I don't think there would be a way to cure it regardless based on this finding. This is about exposure in utero. Eliminating BPAs would be a good thing regardless, along with a bunch of other chemicals that have bad health effects.

We've known that BPAs were bad for a while anyway, which is why you'll see that children's bottles and food containers are labelled as BPA free.