Comments on: What do you know about genetics?

By: Eye on DNA Headlines for 5 October 2007

Eye on DNA Headlines for 5 October 2007 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:16:25 +0000

[...] Kristina Chew at Autism Vox has been on a roll about genetics lately including these posts: What do you know about genetics? and Language Genetics: Knots and [...]

By: nurs4kids

nurs4kids — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:15:28 +0000

I know NOTHING about genetics, but I do know that my autistic son has some general traits that mimic my husband. Although not, “autistic” my husband has eccentric social skills and I only wonder what he was like as a young child. He describes his thought process as a million thoughts a second. He processes reading in pictures, not words. He catches things Jon is seeing that I would never notice. I definitely think there is some genetic link…

By: amy

amy — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:31:55 +0000

I’d also be in favor of the genetic exploration, though my concern would have more to do with well-meant attempts to develop drug therapies based on necessarily incomplete research and the social-services/insurance tendency to force treatments on people. I’d be quite happy to have prenatal tests available. It seems to me that determining the morality of abortion decisions should rest solely with the women who have the responsibility for bearing and (usually) raising the children.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:41:14 +0000

I don’t know. I would find it interesting to see that kind of structure, and I’d be all for knowing some things if it might mean something in terms of preparation or understanding. However, I would try not to make judgments about abortion or genetic modification, and if people were going to do that kind of thing, I think it might have to be withheld until we really understand what we are doing in a moral sense, as opposed to just a genetic sense.

Cliff