some ASD rambles.

[emmacrew]

I don't know how the "OMG THE MMR VACCINE MAKES KIDS AUTISTIC" folks (and boy, there are an awful lot of them) explain things like the UW study where specialists from their early autism treatment program watched video from the first birthdays of a number of children, and were able to tell from those videos which of the kids had grown up to get ASD

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[boojum]

I think the book I'm remembering used the same argument, only yeast was the perpetuator of the wounded gut because of the spikes, and the wounded gut meant incompletely digested casein/gluten/etc. was getting into the bloodstream through the holes, and they were what was behaving like opiates. I don't remember how the author got to spikes.

The whole line of reasoning reminds me a little of two different sf stories. In one, they need someone to report back on this place (through a portal or some such; this was when hard sf used rocket ships and blasters, soft sf used alternate dimensions, and women came out of gumball machines). The place drives everyone catatonic. Finally they decide to send a schizophrenic, who comes back smiling and private and calm and then passes back through the portal, disappearing it as she goes. In the other story, they need people who can cope with extreme weirdness to speak to aliens, so they start infants on hallucinogens so their ideas of the universe are extremely fluid. None of the grown-up children can speak to anyone. One of them can see aliens, but only the invisible ones studying humanity without our knowledge.

(I'm not sure I agree with the portrayal of my reading habits I'm giving with this conversation, by the way. I'm pretty sure I read some non-off-the-wall stuff too.)