FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary tells Scripps News 'I don't think autism is genetic'

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36. What I don't understand is why a high functioning and low functioning autism are both autism

My significant other who is very bright, college educated has an autism diagnosis -

But so does a friend’s child who can’t speak, swirls around, bangs his head, is not bathroom trained and will never have a job or live independently. I think instead of one long spectrum- it should be divided.

We know that pesticides, heavy metals, toxic chemicals could be involved. When saying it’s genetic - a second possibility could be lots of people in same family exposed to same toxins -

Example - Navajo SW families all living in a house built with radioactive soil, entire farm families exposed to pesticides, even a non farm family where someone is always setting pesticide bombs in their house. So many toxins in the world - just living near a factory. In NM, rows of houses around Intel are vacant because of toxic fumes being released.

Nothing is black and white.