Wednesday, July 29, 2020

no. listen.

autistic people do not have bad copies of specific genes. that is not what autism is. that is what down's syndrome is, an extra chromosome, but that's something else entirely.

i understand that people don't realize that. that's why i'm trying very hard to correct the point and educate people about it.

autistic people actually have perfectly good genes. however, they have deeply malfunctioning genomes.

the condition is about properly copying those genomes, not about whether the individual genes themselves are damaged; in most cases, they actually aren't, and if they are, it's due to something else.

so, you end up in a situation where the autistic person has great genes, but is unable to copy those great genes, which leads to a poor expression of them.

and, you have to understand as a basic starting point that these errors are just random and consequently unique to the individual, and not something that exists out there to be inherited.