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> It's a disorder determined by genetics.

This is wildly inaccurate.

> Either you got the genes, or you don't. Pretty binary.

Even more wildly inaccurate. It's not remotely binary. There is no autism gene or genes. Environmental factors (nurture) still factor heavily.

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/autism-genetics-explained/

and a myriad of other articles and research papers one can find by googling "genetics autism."

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> This is wildly inaccurate.

"Wildly" might be an overstatement. As your own link says, genetics are a significant (but not the only) factor.

I agree the whole binary thing is BS, but i think what the poster was originally trying to dispute is that its all in people's head as an emotional state, which is also clearly very wrong.

sure, and if there's half a dozen cases of autism in my family, it's because of what we eat (environment)

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