How does one couple have 3 autistic kids?

It's good to be Artistic!! Will they paint a picture of a field of pretty flowers and butterflies.

Parents have financial incentives to have their diagnosed with autism

DEPORT EM!!! SEND EM TO AL SAVADOR!!!!

I'm so tired of 'it's a spectrum' being used so much that any slight behavior is then categorized as a dysfunction or disorder.

If your kids don't know how to socialize, then taking away their phones and games and have them interact more.

Also anxiety is a function of growth - you cannot grow up without ANY anxiety. I'm tired of people talking about anxiety disorders, as if you can't work through it and grow.

There is definitely a genetic component and an environmental component

A genetic processing disorder that can be exacerbated by environmental factors. Processing deficits can vary but can include sensory, social, behavioral, intellectual, metabolic etc. Some kids have no social or behavioral deficits but sensory processing differences but they fall under the autism diagnosis just as kids with intellectual deficits or social deficits do. Autism is a catch all term like cancer that doesnt mean much on its own

If the rate of autism is 2% and it is completely random and there are 12.5 million families in the US with three children under 18 (guessing), then 100 families would have 3 autistic children. Hope I didn’t screw up the math.

So not impossible and somebody probably thought it would make for good TV.

But it’s not completely random. And aside from genetic and environmental factors, the parents and their doctors would have been much more alert to any signs in the less severely affected children.

Practice?

They get Crazy Checks.

I saw a show about a couple that had SIX autistic kids. They looked like they wished for the sweet embrace of death to sweep them all away

Unless they were sextuplets or something, certainly they were well aware of the issue by the sixth kid. No excuse for that. I understand there was probably the desire for a "normal" kid, but adopt one for fuck's sake.

First - opting for 6 kids is stupid in the first place - but if they continued to have autistic child after another - that's on them and their stupidity.

It's mostly increased awareness and decreased stigma, plus the criteria to be diagnosed aren't as narrow as they used to be. Pharma isn't promoting over-diagnosing, as there aren't really any drugs available.

I think the whole 'lack of empathy' diagnosis is bullshit. It's just an excuse for violent behavior. Kids are diagnosed as autistic when they could also be sociopathic or psychopathic.

Autism, having a genetic component, has higher rates in families with the traits, which are still imperfectly understood.

Autism is not always recognized or recognizable until children reach an age when other siblings may have born, and no one knows the outcome or odds for individual children.

I have known parents who misappropriated diagnoses for their own purposes. My stepdaughter's mother's family has had a five-generation pattern of Munchausen syndrome and Munchausen's by Proxy. Her child had no hope with her. She, of course, cut us off and accused my partner and me of "sexual abuse" when we attempted interventions.

But anyone who rejects the existence of a complex variety of autism-spectrum disorders (I don't buy asocialized, dependent people as "following their truth") are the same science-denying idiots who elected Trump.

And, in this thread, voila.

I am fine with high functioning autistic students in my university classrooms. Just adds variety. Imagine being a parent saddled with a couple serious cases. Yikes.

[quote]How does one couple have 3 autistic kids?

Ask your mother how this happens, OP. We're concerned you're under age from your tone and don't want to get into grooming and abuse threats.

Because despite people's theories about vaccines and parental age, autism is genetic.

Autism is also on a spectrum. I also believe it's a genetic predisposition.

It's because Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Taylor Swift and the radical left forced them all to get COVID vaccines so they came out retarded.

No R11, the first diagnosis happened after the children were already born

I think there's strong agreement now that there is a genetic component to autism. Something that is preserved in the gene pool is usually something that has a positive trait for the continuation of the species. Homosexuality is also thought to have a genetic component. Some have speculated that homosexuality confers improved survival in the offspring of relatives. (Someone to hunt, farm or forage who will share with relatives without having the burden of trying to raise children himself). Hard to say.

Some have speculated that many of our greatest scientists, inventors, and even creative types seem, in retrospect, to have had traits of autism - ability to concentrate on one thing to the exclusion of all others, to steer clear of emotional entanglements or even friendships that were distracting. In the kind of teaching that I do, I see a lot of kids that have autism spectrum traits, but most of them would be termed high-functioning in the previous language around this issue. These kids often have poor social skills, but they can be very productive in the limited spheres that they are interested in. I can see why this gene might have been preserved - because our species need some people who are able to concentrate and not be distracted. It only seems to be a problem when two high -functioning spectrum people meet and procreate, because the odds of their children being more severely autistic seems to be considerably higher.

The nerdy-type autistics aren’t having the the poo-smearing ones R22

There is definitely a genetic component—Now that I have a few younger family members with an official autism diagnosis, I look around at several older family members and think they likely would have been diagnosed with autism had they been young today.I also think there is an environmental component; air and water pollution, micro plastics, too many vaccines too early, processed food etc can make autism symptoms worse, sometimes permanently

The few young ones that I have known over the years have all been violent. Someone tells me their kid is autistic, I avoid them.

I don’t care for kids anyway, and if one is going to be violent because they are mad, dis regulated or whatever, I want no part of it.

The “on the spectrum” adults I know seem to have learned how to regulate their emotions and typically aren’t violent or aggressive.

You all are crazy- there is long standing evidence accepted widely by many hin the medical field that only age of the father who started reproducing a later age greatly increases the likelihood of their children having Autism. Additionally. Scientists have known for a while that there is a hereditary factor that predisposes individuals who have autism. While you may question the particular diagnosis of someone who has a neurological condition, you cannot disregard the two factors I mentioned above.

I know a woman who had two, a boy and a girl, they'd be in their late thirties now - I don't know how that fits the timeline of increased diagnoses.

Both have jobs, the son has been a stock clerk at the same supermarket for years. Nice, quiet guy, loves all animals, has a beautiful aquarium.

The daughter has a "make work" type job with the government. She's the difficult one. Loses her temper and becomes destructive. Engages in inappropriate behavior such as commenting on the size of other women's breasts. She could be mistaken for a drunk aggressive lesbian like Sister George.

They’re just like you and me!

If you are in NYC, this painting is on loan from Boston for the Sargent show

When I was in art history in college, this painting was introduced to me. The professor commented in how unusual the portraiture depiction was as said that people through the years have suggested it may be about mental illness. None of the girls married.

As an adult, and now diagnosed myself, I can clearly identify their behavior as common autistic traits seen in children.

Autism and neurodivergence, are, and have always been highly hereditary.

If you want to find examples of it being passed from one generation to the next, look at the royal houses of Europe. Or the Kennedy family.

The Tsarina and Tsarevich

Quite visible in both

No disrespect to OP but not sure if wires are crossed somewhere - I've watched their show for years and I've never heard them talk about their kids being autistic on any episode, not once. Are you sure they didn't say ARTISTIC? Or were they talking about a client's child or children?

I've searched to see if anything was said anywhere in the press (they now have 4 kids - 3 girls and a boy) but I didn't see anything associated with them or their show.

I know girls can also be autistic but to have three girls diagnosed as autistic seems like one-in-several-million odds.

Talk about exhausting.

What are we supposed to be seeing, r30?

The neurodivergence

It’s in the eyes

OP, I think you should ask Secretary Brainworm.

Only 2 months until we find out!

As childhood maladies become passe' the mommies have to find a new virtue-signalling tool. Anorexia, peanuts and transgender are ovah.

R29, three of the girls seem to be looking directly at the painter. Don't autistic people have trouble making eye contact?

My married neighbors are both autistic and they told me their two kids are also autistic.

These two have 3 autistic kids, apparently.