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The original reason given for Autism was 'refrigerator mothers', basically neglectful mothers. The symptoms of maternal deprivation and Autism are basically the same. I'm wondering if the original reason was actually correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_deprivation

It's possible that their poor emotional ability is due to long term maternal neglect. Perhaps the high IQ autist, is actually a high IQ man with emotional trauma. Are there any cases of low IQ parents having a high IQ autistic kid?

Quote from the refrigerator mother Wikipedia page

>According to Peter Breggin's 1991 book Toxic Psychiatry, the psychogenic theory of autism was abandoned because of political pressure from parents' organizations, not for scientific reasons. For example, some case reports have shown that profound institutional privation can result in quasi-autistic symptoms.[17] Clinician Frances Tustin devoted her life to the theory. She wrote:
>One must note that autism is one of a number of children's neurological disorders of psychogenic nature, i.e., caused by abusive and traumatic treatment of infants. ...There is persistent denial by American society of the causes of damage to millions of children who are thus traumatized and brain damaged as a consequence of cruel treatment by parents who are otherwise too busy to love and care for their babies.

Psychiatry is not immune to political pressure. If Autism is real, then it should be detectable in the genes and fMRI brain scans. Autism brain scans reveal minor differences which could be due to trauma rather than anything genetic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CUn81EBVGM
That's a video on identical twins where only one has Autism. How is this possible if it's purely genetic? One of the twins should have higher amount of environmental toxins in the blood, if that is indeed the cause as some speculate, but that also has never been proven.

What are your thoughts /sci/?