Many intellectuals and researchers got ther heads around solving what was causing a continuous increase and some recent peak in children born with autism and asperger's syndrome. From the conspiracy of vaccines to television widespread during the 80's (proposed by Michael Waldmann from Cornell University, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=989648) no theory has yet satisfactory answered the main cause of this increase, although most involved people tend to think it as a spread of acknowledgement of the syndrome, thus increase in reported cases. I beg to differ.
Neuroscientist Simon Baron Cohen (Sacha's cousin btw) is one of the most important names in this field of research, pointing out to his breakthrough in identifying high levels of testosterone in amniotic liquid of autistic babies, he proposes that aspergers and autism are masculine brains, shaped by this very hormone. Important to point here that empathy is usually divided in emotional and cognitive empathy, which the first is being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes.The latter is identifying people's emotional response and reading body and face language intuitively. Autists normally have very acute emotional empathy but really suck at reading other people, while psychopaths are just the opposite. A feminine brain would be more leaning to borderline than psychos but thats another subject. There is also problems in autists in acting through body and face language in manner that corresponds to their feelings, which also psychopaths are mostly really good at doing, since they are perceived as not getting nervous by stressful and performance requiring situations. Back to the theory at hand;
In 1988 Marilyn Warring released a book called "If women counted" advocating for a GDP accounting that considered domestic labor done by women as housewives such as cleaning, cooking, raising children etc. From this period until 1994, her work "persuaded the United Nations to redefine gross domestic product, inspired new accounting methods in dozens of countries and became the founding document of the discipline of feminist economics"(wiki).
The thing is, during 93-95 when this became worldwidely established, there was a considerable increase in inflation levels around the globe ( https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG?end=2018&start=1988 ), mainly in commodities which might have been fostered by this new economic policy, which in turn made families with a single source of income pass more difficult times to make ends meet. More and more women, including those from more traditional upbringings and gender roles, had to search for remunerated jobs outside the home. Facing new challenges, these women were getting stressed from new demands from the workplace, orders from the boss, coming late at home and still doing home chores or having extra expenses for a nanny and/or housecleaner.
The stress hormone, Cortisol, is produced by our body in fight-flee situations or long-term generalized stress. When it is released in our system, testosterone production is halted, which if this situation is prolonged enough, might cause growth, reproductive problems and many others. Testosterone is produced by sexual organs (testicules or ovaries) and suprarenal gland in lesser quantities. I think you already get where i'm pointing. My hypothesis is that when women during pregnancy, are exposed to stressful situations, her remaining circulating testosterone is allocated towards her uterus, in a similar manner in which fat mothers tend to have children more predisposed to increased body fat levels. The mecanism in which this happens might be a adaptative one to prevent bigger problems to the fetus, or even a non designed physiological push of such liquids. The uterus works as a filter in which sperm is pulled towards the egg, filtering and disposing of malfuctioning ones, contrary to popular belief that sperm run towards them in a race ( for instance:"The idea that sperm race to the egg is just another macho myth | Aeon Essays" ).
Although classical autism has very identifiable symptoms, aspergers might go unnoticed for many years or whole lives. Savant sterreotypes such as sheldon cooper, "The good doctor" and so on only represent a portion of this population, which only makes identifying it harder for the person and close ones. The term incel is a social engineering propaganda trigger which made eugenistic behaviour in women partner-choosing far more accepted. There's missing information between the incel wiki pages from different languages.In portuguese wiki there's this mention: In march 5th, 2004, a Brian G. Gilmartin letter, known for his extensive male incel research, which he named "shy lovers", has noticed that at least 40% of these males could be diagnosed as Aspergers, according to his 1987 book "Shyness and love".
@Atavistic Autist
@Ap0calypse Is this theory scientifically sound?
Neuroscientist Simon Baron Cohen (Sacha's cousin btw) is one of the most important names in this field of research, pointing out to his breakthrough in identifying high levels of testosterone in amniotic liquid of autistic babies, he proposes that aspergers and autism are masculine brains, shaped by this very hormone. Important to point here that empathy is usually divided in emotional and cognitive empathy, which the first is being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes.The latter is identifying people's emotional response and reading body and face language intuitively. Autists normally have very acute emotional empathy but really suck at reading other people, while psychopaths are just the opposite. A feminine brain would be more leaning to borderline than psychos but thats another subject. There is also problems in autists in acting through body and face language in manner that corresponds to their feelings, which also psychopaths are mostly really good at doing, since they are perceived as not getting nervous by stressful and performance requiring situations. Back to the theory at hand;
In 1988 Marilyn Warring released a book called "If women counted" advocating for a GDP accounting that considered domestic labor done by women as housewives such as cleaning, cooking, raising children etc. From this period until 1994, her work "persuaded the United Nations to redefine gross domestic product, inspired new accounting methods in dozens of countries and became the founding document of the discipline of feminist economics"(wiki).
The thing is, during 93-95 when this became worldwidely established, there was a considerable increase in inflation levels around the globe ( https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG?end=2018&start=1988 ), mainly in commodities which might have been fostered by this new economic policy, which in turn made families with a single source of income pass more difficult times to make ends meet. More and more women, including those from more traditional upbringings and gender roles, had to search for remunerated jobs outside the home. Facing new challenges, these women were getting stressed from new demands from the workplace, orders from the boss, coming late at home and still doing home chores or having extra expenses for a nanny and/or housecleaner.
The stress hormone, Cortisol, is produced by our body in fight-flee situations or long-term generalized stress. When it is released in our system, testosterone production is halted, which if this situation is prolonged enough, might cause growth, reproductive problems and many others. Testosterone is produced by sexual organs (testicules or ovaries) and suprarenal gland in lesser quantities. I think you already get where i'm pointing. My hypothesis is that when women during pregnancy, are exposed to stressful situations, her remaining circulating testosterone is allocated towards her uterus, in a similar manner in which fat mothers tend to have children more predisposed to increased body fat levels. The mecanism in which this happens might be a adaptative one to prevent bigger problems to the fetus, or even a non designed physiological push of such liquids. The uterus works as a filter in which sperm is pulled towards the egg, filtering and disposing of malfuctioning ones, contrary to popular belief that sperm run towards them in a race ( for instance:"The idea that sperm race to the egg is just another macho myth | Aeon Essays" ).
Although classical autism has very identifiable symptoms, aspergers might go unnoticed for many years or whole lives. Savant sterreotypes such as sheldon cooper, "The good doctor" and so on only represent a portion of this population, which only makes identifying it harder for the person and close ones. The term incel is a social engineering propaganda trigger which made eugenistic behaviour in women partner-choosing far more accepted. There's missing information between the incel wiki pages from different languages.In portuguese wiki there's this mention: In march 5th, 2004, a Brian G. Gilmartin letter, known for his extensive male incel research, which he named "shy lovers", has noticed that at least 40% of these males could be diagnosed as Aspergers, according to his 1987 book "Shyness and love".
@Atavistic Autist
@Ap0calypse Is this theory scientifically sound?
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