Complex question Normal has complex answers – find as a question what autism is. Experts in the region have debated the subject for decades. Now, US President Donald Trump claims that he has solved the mystery.
The Department of US Health and Human Services launched “mass testing and research efforts” Determine “what is the cause of autism epidemic” by September, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior said in April.
Number of People who diagnose autism in the United States have been growing for decades. According to data from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 36 children in about 1 in 2020 were identified in 2020 with an autism spectrum disorder.
But Sunday’s memorial service for right -wing activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on 10 September, trump teased the upcoming “amazing” declaration about the autism spectrum disorder.
,I think we got the answer to autism, ”said Trump.
Washington Post reports that Trump’s government wants the current conclusions connecting pain reliever to autism. According to thesis findings, people taking tilanol during pregnancy are at great risk of giving birth to a child with autism spectrum disorder. Tylenol is available At the counter in America; Its active ingredient, acetaminophen, is the same as the chemically popular European Pinkiller paracetamol.
Focus on an active component Is not tenth. Christine M., Director, Department of Children and Juvenile Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychiatry at Frankfurt University Hospital. As of Friday, comprehensive studies have not shown any cause effect, only minimal at risk.
Researcher: A component in medicine does not cause autism
DrankAinkillers are considered normal during pregnancy. But all nerve developmental disorders including autism, according to Friday, are associated with polygenic risks. In other words, neither a single active ingredient in the drug, nor individual genes are responsible.
Thousands of gene variants are likely to play a role. People who carry single The gene variants of that group have a minimum risk of development autism. Only when these variants are deposited, the risk increases.
REsearchers repeatedly stated that apart from hereditary gene mutations, environmental effects discover pollutants, fine dust, microplastic or environmental toxins, so they can increase the risk of autism.
Scientists researching the research of genetic and neurological research of autism have been spent for decades, “The idea that we can suddenly find reasons till September, a cognitive neuroscientist and autism specialist Geoff Bird in April and Oxford in April and Autism Specialist at Oxford and University College London D.W.
What is the reason for autism?
There are many different signs of autism, and people do not necessarily experience it in the same way. For some, social communication can be challenging. Others may have difficulties with learning or hoffsiness for sensory stimuli such as touch or light.
As described in medical texts, the autism spectrum disorder arises from the ultion in the development of the brain during early life. Research has shown that in people with autism, there can be a variety of changes in the functioning of the brain.
Bird said, “Scientists are very sorry.” About 80% of autism cases can be associated with inherited gene mutations.
In changes in genes such as MECP2, bees have been found in the development of the old brain, but the evidence that specific changes are directly associated with autism, this is not clear.
“Diagnosis of autism has always been the biggest challenge in autism research, as we do not have an organic marker of autism,” said Bird. He said that it has created challenges for researchers in an attempt to understand the biological reasons of autism.
Autism awareness and extensive diagnosis
Experts say that the biggest reason for the diagnosis of autism is that clinical and social definitions have often changed autism which was described 80 years ago earlier.
Bird said, “Now it is common to diagnose people with more subtle differences, so it explains some prevailing trend.”
Changes in screening methods have helped experts to catch the signs of autism in girls more often.
Bird said, “Autism was mostly defined by how it presents in boys, and the diagnosis of girls was fit on it. Now what do we matter to meet the clinical norms for autism for women representatives.” “The natural result is that autism.”
The neurodiversity movement has also contributed to broad clinical norms. Autism awareness movements have helped people below age of how their own owners cannot be neurotipicals.
A non-profit organization, Child Autism UK CEO Suzy Yardley said, “Awareness is likely to have an evaluation and diagnosis of folk, and therefore (they) can feel relieved when they get the answer and potential next step,” a non-profit organization, child autism, CEO Suji Yardley said.
Therefore, scientists are investigating whether pollutants such as factors, changes in the intestinal-brain axis, or the immune system may have a direct impact on neurodevelopment and autism.
However, Bird said that the evidence around thesis principles is “not confident”.
“There is no doubt that pollutants do bad things, but I would be surprised if they were rakes of autism,” Heer said.
The vaccines are not autism
It is claimed that the vaccines behind the growing crack of autism have been repeatedly and strictly rejected.
In the last two decades, scientists have conducted several large -scale and rigorous studies to determine whether any aspect of vaccination can be autism. No one showed any link under autism and vaccine either during either pregnancy or after birth.
According to the US-based National Institute of Health (NIH), “no link is a foundation between autism and vaccines, including Thimerosal, a mercury-based complex.”
The wrong claims that the autism came from a paper published in 1998 due to vaccines, suggesting a link between measles, kanthamala and rubella (MMR) vaccine and problems with brain development.
Later, serious errors were found in the study and withdrawn. Nevertheless, there is damage done by paper.
The history of Kennedy’s anti-vaccine advocacy is well documented. And last month he told the CDC that despite the agency not showing any links in his previous research, the link is to study the link bellonge vaccine and autism.
The HHS secretary has reduced the outbreak of a measles in Texas, which has infected 500 people and killed two unseeded children.
Autism community advocates suspect Kennedy’s goals
Advocates of the Autism community completed the announcement of HHS Secretary with suspicion. The National Autistic Society of the UK called Kennedy’s claim “fake news promotion stunt”.
“We are shocked by autistic people in call and anti-signs, Trump and RFK Junior talks about autistic people.” Tim Nichols, Assistant Director of Policy, Research and Strategy at the National Autistic Society of UK, said. “It’s not better if they can deploy their vast financial resources to improve life for autistic people and their families, and affect society’s understanding about autism?”
Bird said that the way “stress” people think and do research on autism are common, especially when it comes to the idea of reducing it or wiping it. Some advocacy groups argue that autism is not a disease, and no one for “cure”, “Yardley told DW.
Bird said other people argue that there is not a disorder to argue autism “Afferuct with autism, beating the voices of a large number of people who feel that their lives have been negatively affected by autism,” Bird said.
Edited by: Deric Williams
Editor Note: This article was published on 11 April 2025. It was updated to include current events on 22 September, 2025.