I was in the middle of a two paragraph response and then it refreshed and disappeared. ■■■■ this damn forum and it’s nonsensical ghosts in the machine…Let me reiterate what I was saying. Vaccines good, Jenny McCarthy full of crap…Genetics is more the cause than anything else. MMR vaccine may simply cause a mutation on a protein. Most of the experts in autism lean toward this explanation. Not that MMR causes Autism.
Yep, age of the parents is the most significant factor in autism risks iirc. More specifically the age of the father, older sperm = more mutation risk.
And, strangely, an age-gap between parents can increase it as well.
I lost the first post due to the refresh bug as well, fun times!