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12 Jan 2009, 4:58 pm

Disorder linked to high levels of testosterone in womb
12 January 2009 | The Guardian | Sarah Boseley - Prenatal
screening tests could follow ground-breaking research into 235 children
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... erone-womb

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Hormone clue could lead to pre-natal screening for autism | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... utism.html


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12 Jan 2009, 5:54 pm

beware fo the first studies; they still have to be peer-reviewed and duplicated.



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12 Jan 2009, 6:56 pm

If the disease was linked to high levels of estrogen, the feminist extremists would be all over that in a second.


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13 Jan 2009, 5:10 am

the first article could lead to some believing casteration is the key to solving autism, i'd rather keep mine. what i'd like to know is if high levels of testosterone are the key cause or just a sign, most people in this day and age assume without enough information which could be dangerous to those with any autism spectrum disorder.


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13 Jan 2009, 5:53 am

familiar_stranger wrote:
most people in this day and age assume without enough information which could be dangerous to those with any autism spectrum disorder.

There will always be spectulation with no real answers and I can not help but wonder at times do we really need answers or is it about time others accepted, allowed us just be be...

This research has been going on for a while at the Cambridge University UK I think and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen is on th team one the best authorities on autism world wide, anyway he seems to make more sense than most...

For myself happy I was born and sure do not want to be deleted and do not feel we ever should be, my biggest problem in life has always been ignorance and narrow mindedness from others wanting me to fit into there neat little stereo type minds :alien:


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13 Jan 2009, 5:58 am

familiar_stranger wrote:
the first article could lead to some believing casteration is the key to solving autism, i'd rather keep mine. what i'd like to know is if high levels of testosterone are the key cause or just a sign, most people in this day and age assume without enough information which could be dangerous to those with any autism spectrum disorder.



I would like to point out they already tried castrating autistic people with Lupron it didn't work. I also agree with pakled until this study can be replicated it doesn't mean anything.



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13 Jan 2009, 6:45 pm

I'm curious about how the high levels of testosterone got in the womb in the first place.

I'm pretty sure my dad is responsible for my aspergers. So... is it something the placenta causes? The genetic link was already established, right?

I knew I should have gone on to med school or taken more bio classes in college.



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13 Jan 2009, 8:16 pm

history_of_psychiatry wrote:
If the disease was linked to high levels of estrogen, the feminist extremists would be all over that in a second.

What makes you think that they are not already engaged in a form of medical man-bashing?



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13 Jan 2009, 8:58 pm

i dont think that high brain testosterone levels in womb are the cause as im a MTF transexual and that is caused by low brain testone levels and high brain estrogen levels in the womb. so ether the research saying that sex homones are linked to aspergers is wrong or the reaserch saying that sex hormones are linked to Gender identity disorders is wrong, im no doctor but im going to side with the research linking gender determining hormones with a gender disorder.