no what im saying is you said they would have to reflect upon themselves if their kids is born with autism like it's something they did wrong

No it's more like it's passed on from parents to kids like genetically like blue eyes. Or it can be a grandparent it's never really that far away from the kids.

I agree with this in general but I think lazy is the wrong descriptor.

I usually point at cities and the effects cars have had on shaping them, if there's nice convenient places to walk or ride a bicycle people will choose to do that (generally) but most US cities are terrible places to walk and worse places to ride a bicycle, everthing is too far to walk and even if there's a nice sidewalk there's no trees because of required "clear zones" on roads.

do you think people should stop saying alcoholism/addiction is a disease? you see that a lot

i mean not really. it isn't something like addiction or anger that you can reflect on and change over time

Then why weren't ancient people affected by these issues?

Our diets are far more varied than they were years ago, you could only grow a few crops in a locale, and protein sources were not nearly as varied.

Twenty vegetables?

Ancient Etowah indians had two.

yeah i used to draw spirals a lot, makes sense to give it a little head and tail and boom you've got yourself a 2d pet

Yes, we should definitely celebrate a condition leaves people incapable of speaking, that causes suffering when the individual is exposed to things like, checks notes sights and sounds.

Oof.

I’m pretty sure obesity is caused by eating too much.

undoubtedly, but shovelling three times as much food down their gullet and doing a third of the exercise, compared to the society of the post WW2 decade when Western society ws said to be at its healthiest, dietarily speaking, is also a huge contributor.

We have become a lazier society than our grandparents time.

Holy shit, there we have it folks! common sense in its rawest form!

If you consume more calories than you burn off, for an extended period of time, you get fat. the good news is, if you burn off more calories than you consume, you reverse the process and get thin.

it really is this simple.

Autism is not classified as a disease.

Well when you're saying treated differently there's two different ways to be treated differently. Number one is to be looked down on. Thought of being less than someone else. Then there is treating someone differently as in giving them what they need to be able to perform what they need to do successfully. So no we don't need to be treated differently and look down upon. However we do need to be treated differently because our needs are different. And all autistic people are unique on what those specific needs are going to be able to be successful.

And saying we're all mad here is just like saying we're all a little bit autistic which we're not. And no we're not more diagnosed to make money off of us. A lot of us have a problem getting money so it's not like we can spend it

You're fine! You don't know what you don't know. Whenever this comes up in conversation you can now help by letting someone else know.

It is not rare elsewhere. Autism is blind to culture. There are also cultures that are blind to autism. You should see what they do to autistics in China

They hated him because he spoke the truth

Considering there are multitudes of studies, doctors, and scientists concerned about the obesity epidemic; its safe to say people were skinnier before processed foods.

Its similar with Crohns and Colitis...they haven't found what causes it yet but I would bet money on it, that its the Western diet (as its rare elsewhere) Stress and this. A combination of all 3, very closely linked. I have colitis but have avoided stress and changed my diet and see a massive change...I'm also autistic

And disorder doesn't carry similar negative connotations?

There are genetic diseases.

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Maybe, and hear me out, people are doing:

Less physical activity

And

Eating more calories

Is the main cause of obesity.

I mean, I lost 30 kgs/60 lbs of pandemic weight by adding a 38 minute daily walk and not eating 3 desserts.

Not talking about doodles. Are you not familiar with margin drawings in illuminated manuscripts? Scholars have spent years just trying to figure out what they mean.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-were-medieval-knights-always-fighting-snails-1728888/

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Someone who can only go on the specific data point that people were skinnier as a whole before processed foods came along.