Aspies have different DNA

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I think the data on the 27 genes presents a weak correlation with people with ASD which in scientific terms is an association. The scientists are flagging their finding in order to a) publish their work and b) attract interest in funding their study further to investigate if the association has some underlying basis.

Except it's nothing new. We know many autism-related genes already. As in, several hundred different genes have been linked to autism in at least some cases.



No. In fact, pretty much everyone has at least one mutation that is 'de novo', ie not inherited from either parent.

Eh. It's another opinion piece, that's all. Collective Evolution does a lot of them. Pretty New Agey.

On the whole, it's an opinion I agree with-- not so much that we're the next step in human evolution (a theory my hubby likes to put forth when I get down on myself-- So what am I, you big strong Australopithecine, your pet Cro-Magnon?? Piss off.) as that we're just people, just different people, and maybe it's not such a good idea to dismiss us as "ret*d," "deficient," "disabled," basically something to be fixed and pitied and laughed at behind the hands, rather than fellow creatures with equal dignity to be respected.

Well, while I'm dreaming, maybe my children will play nicely together and the dishes will wash themselves.