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Feb 9·edited Feb 24Liked by Tao Lin, Noah Kumin

Good article. I would say for genetics I would describe "autistic traits". I may write about my own experiences in the future.

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https://acousticspackerdiscussionism.substack.com/p/notes-on-autism

I would love to hear from people about this and give me some feedback, I'm fairly new to Substack

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Feb 8Liked by Tao Lin, Noah Kumin

Excellent overview of autism. One area that I would like to see expanded: What are the top three environmental causes of autism and what can parents do to minimize the risk of autism for their children?

I agree about the autism being non-genetic. Having a hundred suspect genes is like having no real suspect. If someone is invetsigating a murder and he has a hundred suspects, it means that he really has no clue who the killer is.

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Feb 4Liked by Tao Lin, Noah Kumin

Halfway through, I have to thank you for this article! This is such an elusive subject and nowadays you cannot hide from it. Friends and friends children will be affected.

Thank you specifically for the references!

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Aug 19Liked by Tao Lin, Noah Kumin

This is absolutely lovely work. Personal, universal, and hopeful. Thank you.

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Oct 2Liked by Tao Lin

I read this post this morning, and when reading your book Leave Society this evening, realized that even though autistic people are misunderstood, I (someone who identifies as non-autistic) was still able to relate to the scenarios, facial expressions, and reactive behaviours to situations you describe in your book.

Which made me suddenly think that even though neurodiversity exists, perhaps we all inherently experience self and reality in a similar way (due to connections with nature, maybe)

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Aug 28Liked by Tao Lin

This is extremely impressive research. Fantastic journalism, thank you.

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me when i have to kill all my neurotypical/ableminded friends in the great Autism War of 2048 when they have become an oppressed minority :crying:

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Poetic how in the end you implied that the problems we face are all caused by the sins and greed of humans past -- but such problems will create new humans of tomorrow, that will usher in new change and hopefully a new World. Almost like Nature is resetting itself by enacting change through "us" humans, even if on an microscopic, undetectable, multi-generational scale.

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thank you

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