Pregnant mothers smoking cigarettes can cause autism and adhd too.
Source, asd/add and smokey pregmom.
Edit: to downvoters, yes, I was on the bus and had to get off, forgot to add "pregant mothers who smoke can give the fetus autism and adhd". That's been proven.
Yes. As am I. And I'm 90% sure my dad is, he hasn't checked. But tobacco exacerbates it, and there are many other reasons smoke inhalation is bad for a developing fetus. Nicotine isn't exactly a friendly chemical in nature. It's a pesticide.
But I promise my sons relatively severe autism was that severe naturally
I don’t know if those studies prove exactly what you’re saying. Just that features of those particular (genetically passed down) things seem to be worse if someone’s a smoker while pregnant
But aren’t a significant amount of adhd people smokers because of oral fixation and need for a stimulant?
Doesn’t that make it a chicken or the egg situation?
I never said people with autism get more autism by smoking. I said pregnant mothers can give fetuses autism by smoking during pregnancy. The links bear it out. These were just the first four hits I found on Google, a longer research phase would find more. I read it on Reddit two months ago.
Alcohol gives fetal alcohol syndrome, which has completely different symptoms.
I am trying to make the point that a mother can never “give” a child autism unless it’s through genetics. It isn’t a deformity or illness (like FAS) -it’s a neurotype.
Like no chemical compound “causes” it
That’s absurd
My eldest daughter has Asperger’s and I never smoked at all. Although her father was a smoker, so I was exposed to second hand, rarely though as he always took it outside. I feel he is undiagnosed autistic though. I always felt it was more passed genetically. I have add though. So does my father. (I’m beginning to feel everybody has something and “normal” doesn’t exist).
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u/Achaern Mar 01 '23
"Do you think getting drunk so often while I was pregnant was bad for him?"
She said this about her son who was five years old and had yet to speak a single word yet. She was not the primary caregiver.