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... or ADHD, or food allergies, or anxiety disorders, or homosexuality, or any of other crap our children are plagued with.

After seven months on pregnancy forums, I’ve determined this is a big fat lie.

Women today are taking all kinds of shit during pregnancy. Heartburn meds, extra vaccinations, popping Tylenol like it’s candy, high dose progesterone supplements. Oh, and that doesn’t include all the drugs that are taken these days to just get pregnant, like the massive amounts of hormones you use during IVF or IUI treatments, or Clomid to increase ovulation. Drinking during pregnancy is becoming more acceptable (because one bitch wrote a book), and apparently smoking weed your entire pregnancy is no big deal either. Most psychiatric drugs are cleared for use during pregnancy as well.

This is on top of all the birth control, drinking, bad eating habits, obesity, and anxiety meds women are on for most of their lives.

But no, nothing in the modern world causes autism. You constantly freaking out about your mother in law’s innocent bullshit, or your high stress job, or your advanced maternal age, won’t affect your baby at all. Nothing causes problems!

... or ADHD, or food allergies, or anxiety disorders, or homosexuality, or any of other crap our children are plagued with. After seven months on pregnancy forums, I’ve determined this is a big fat lie. Women today are taking all kinds of shit during pregnancy. Heartburn meds, extra vaccinations, popping Tylenol like it’s candy, high dose progesterone supplements. Oh, and that doesn’t include all the drugs that are taken these days to just get pregnant, like the massive amounts of hormones you use during IVF or IUI treatments, or Clomid to increase ovulation. Drinking during pregnancy is becoming more acceptable (because one bitch wrote a book), and apparently smoking weed your entire pregnancy is no big deal either. Most psychiatric drugs are cleared for use during pregnancy as well. This is on top of all the birth control, drinking, bad eating habits, obesity, and anxiety meds women are on for most of their lives. But no, nothing in the modern world causes autism. You constantly freaking out about your mother in law’s innocent bullshit, or your high stress job, or your advanced maternal age, won’t affect your baby at all. Nothing causes problems!

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You sound like a great woman. Good luck raising a family in this clown world. I mean that unsarcastically.

Fuck all modern degeneracy. If something sounds wrong to you it probably is. Regardless of any (((studys))) done to aid in the mental gymnastics of the hedonist lifestyle of the general public.

I dont know about autism, but I have a theory that ADHD is caused by early childhood development. Basically if you raise a child to complete tasks with linear thinking (by playing with blocks to build something or reading them a story) they will develop normally. If you rely on screens to placate your child your child will develop ADHD due to the way screens interact with your brain. The book "the shallows" by nicholas carr is a great read and I would reccomend it to anyone who wants to understand how the medium of the transmittance of information effects thought.

Teach your child to love to read early; and teach them to question. They will develop critical thinking.

Eat well and clean, do light aerobic exercise and remember to let your child listen to music or read them stories while they are inside of you! Classical music stimulates the brain and reading aids in the bonding process/ voice recognition. And obviously brestfeed if possible.

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Good point about ADHD and screen time.