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Originally Posted by Hellion
I am pretty sure not everyone has autism...also I actually do my best to stay away from processed food and I still am on the spectrum. I know when I go for a period of eating rather unhealthy I have more digestive discomfort and it will make me rather grumpy...but I do not think all my autism traits/symptoms are going to go away if I find the perfect diet. Though if anything I tend towards healthier food, however eating enough or having enough to eat can be difficult.
I also do not see what is so trendy about having trouble with social interaction, a harder time dealing with stress and sensory issues so things that don't bother most people irritate the crap out of you...if people think that is trendy they got issues. Also its not a mental illness, it is a neurological condition/developmental disorder and people are born that way people do not just develop autism.
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Right. And we have many autism cases here (Silicon Valley) and the fact that pretty much everybody is drinking kale smoothies and eating quinoa does not change that. I am always surprised to hear the hypothesis implicating processed foods because processed foods are a very recent phenomenon, while neurological and psychiatric diseases have existed for much longer - they were just called different names. Processed foods aren't the most nutritious, or tasty, fare (to my taste at least, they are pretty bad, probaby because I was raised on food cooked from scratch), but to believe that they are a major causative factor in illnesses that predate the agrobiz by centuries if not millennia seems odd to me.