Comments on: Once Again, TV Does Not Cause Autism

By: Melody

Melody — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:27:10 +0000

“On to the next theory of autism aetiology……..”

Oxygen?

By: Storkdok

Storkdok — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:58:50 +0000

Oh yeah, I forgot to turn on the TV for the kids, too…

By: Norah

Norah — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:52:07 +0000

We didn’t even have TV for the first few years of my life. Didn’t have a computer either. I do remember having one when I was 5 or so, must have been the first one that my dad got from his employer. I played hangman on it but I didn’t know I was supposed to guess a word before the man was completed. I thought I had to make the man appear. I never figured out the mechanism to do that, even, either, so I just bashed keys at random and was happy when I ’succeeded’.

My mom didn’t have any TV when she was little until sometime in puberty.

By: Storkdok

Storkdok — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:55:37 +0000

“On to the next theory of autism aetiology……..”

Breath mints?

Oh, I need to get some more fluoridated water for the kids and schedule their next round of vaccinations! ;0)

By: Leanne

Leanne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:13:14 +0000

While I’m not a fan of tv in general, especially for infants, I’m pretty sure it did not cause my son’s (or anyone else’s) autism. It all goes back to the invisible autistic adults doesn’t it? If you believe they don’t exist then you would look for a (relatively) recent cause and tv sounds good I guess because, really, it’s not that good for any child.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:37:15 +0000

Our dd showed signs of autism very early in life, long before she realized tv might be any fun. Around two, she started watching some tv and now, at 3.5, she has a few shows she really enjoys, but if anything, they help her as they passively teach emotions, social skills, jokes, etc. She has a harder time with one on one teaching or even sitting in a group with a teacher because the environment is too much for her to be able to focus on the content. We’ve found that TV has helped act as a teacher (gasp!) and we’ve appreciated it’s influence. It was far from what caused or created any autistic characteristics in her as those showed up long before she even noticed a television.

By: Pedro Vera

Pedro Vera — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:19:15 +0000

Funny that you mention Grand Theft Auto, because PJ adores it. I already beat the game so in theory there’s nothing to do but run around and do mischief, but he loves to fly the helicopters around and doing stunt jumps in motorcycles.

Whenever Nico (the main character) falls off the bike (mostly because PJ made him do it on purpose) he asks “are you OK? are you alright?” then figures out a new way of making him crash. With the helicopters sometimes he makes him jump off the helicopter into the water so he can make swim Nico around. He used to do the same thing in an older game called Crackdown because the characters can jump and climb any building in the game. In that case he would spend dead hours exploring the in-game city.

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:40:58 +0000

Well, that was silly, talking about Chinese politics. I should be more concerned with politics in this county where I live, first, then Florida politics, then autistic politics, then national politics, and a long lagging last, the politics of other countries.

Cain’t help m’self. I just go “ooh, shiny!” and write about the first thing which comes to mind.

Sorry.

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:28:39 +0000

I’m listening to Phil Hendrie right now, and he’s talking about the upcoming Olympics, and how the Communist government of China is really good at business. It really is a police state over there, no matter how much money they are making. I do believe they’ve lost the Mandate of Heaven.

Effin’ Commies!

Where is Sun Yat-Sen, now that we really need him?

BTW, did you know that Madame Chiang Kai-Shek attended Weslyan College in GA, just like my cousin Jane. I believe she may have spoken English like a Georgia person.

Just weird, no significance

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:41:02 +0000

Well, I kind of stopped watching TV regularly when I was in the 8th grade. Still can’t quite get myself to watch too much Youtube!