I have seen numbers anywhere from 100 to 2,000 genes. Also in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJbqtMhPALo, it says 500 genes can cause autism, each gene accounts for less than 1% of cases.
If you are a theoretical physicist, there is nothing puzzling about all this. The presence of enhanced self-interaction in brain cells leads to something known as "field renormalization," where contrasts are maximized, and to universality and simplicity in field interactions ("brain activities"). The microscopic details that trigger the "field renormalization" become irrelevant.
Unless you understand this, you will continue to be puzzled by the many causes of autism.
Renormalization invariably leads to "universality." Maximization of signal contrast means these children lose some communication channels (such as verbal and social), which correspond to what we physicists call as "irrelevant operators." Humans don't have that many communication channels. Weakened verbal and social skills necessarily mean an enhanced visual communication capability. That's the universality I am talking about.
So are these children destined to be deficient in verbal and social skills? Not at all. There is no photon-photon interactions in Quantum Electrodynamics. Similarly Higgs boson has no primordial interaction for it to decay into two gluons. Yet all these interactions can happen, via a fermion loop. Translated into autism, this means that verbal and social skills can happen: they just need to proceed through these children's visual-manual skills.
Modulation is the key to all issues with autism. When parents get frustrated at their children's tantrums, I ask the parents: what do you do when the children are happy? And they would look at me, totally confused. Tantrums belong to repulsive auto-feedback, anything you do at the moment of tantrums, is basically useless and irrelevant. After 72 years of the discovery of child autism, people should know better, but they don't. You don't solve tantrum problems by starting with tantrums. The modulation must go in the opposite direction. You need to connect the good moments into the bad moments, the good experiences into the bad experiences. That's all. Your starting point should be the moments when the children are happy.
Similarly, you look around in this forum, and you see parents asking for tips how to deal with the many issues of children's behaviors. Those should never be the starting points. It's much more fruitful to spend your time developing the foundational skills (in particular, visual-manual skills) of your children. Parents invest time and energy at the wrong end of issues, no wonder their children stay underdeveloped, forever.
Autism is a trivial issue. The children are fine. Adults are the problem.
It's a different species of human beings, with a different way of development. Until the day parents and educators understand that, everybody will continue to suffer.
My daughter just turned 8 years old. I wrote a letter to her and explained to her about autism and her being autistic. I sat down and went through the letter with her. She nodded her head and was happy at all what I said to her, and she focused on correcting my grammar and spelling mistakes. She likes to be special, so do I. It's always been fun for us to be autistic. It is beyond me why other families decide to choose the path of suffering. Happiness is a choice.
And here are two recent videos I've made with contribution from my children. And you wonder why my children are happy and develop well? My point is: I've done so much more than other parents. Catch up if you can.
24 Dec 2015, 1:08 pm
