I can still count to potato.


/ffffffffffffffff*ck the wife

So Vaccines cause increases in the number of neurons in the brain?

bigger? no. better? yeah...if only in the memory and attention areas. i've got sexual fantasy down pretty good...when i can remember it.

It's astonishing that the offspring of Jenny McCarthy can have too much brain.

66.5237441545245% actually

DoBeDoBeDo: So Vaccines cause increases in the number of neurons in the brain?



Only if you have a shiatty virtual reality machine.

DoBeDoBeDo: So Vaccines cause increases in the number of neurons in the brain?

That means that whatever goes wrong in autism starts in utero, which should help focus researchers looking for its causes or triggers, including specific genes or prenatal exposures.

Hahahahahahahahahaha... Fark you McCarthy.

cgraves67: It's astonishing that the offspring of Jenny McCarthy can have too much brain.

I call it "Progression Toward the Mean".

It must of been the mothers' vaccines. That is the only logical explanation.

Heh, all the research that's been done and the new understanding is granted by, "let's take the brains out and look at them." Still, fascinating stuff.

Maybe this is why many people with Asperger's seem smarter than those who aren't on the autistic spectrum.

/transgender Aspie

IgG4: doopid: It must of been the mothers' vaccines. That is the only logical explanation.

Obviously this.

The real question is, are aliens the ones giving us the vaccines?

Pocket_Fisherman: IgG4: doopid: It must of been the mothers' vaccines. That is the only logical explanation.

Obviously this.

The real question is, are aliens the ones giving us the vaccines?

Most people with autism do not have any special abilities and are often sub-normal. Excessive numbers of neurons can also be like too many cars on a highway, overloaded and at a standstill.

Speaking from experience with both ends of the spectrum.

This really isn't news. It's been known for a while that autism is heavily linked to abnormally dense brains. It's nice to see some more confirmation, however.

Magorn: It certainly explains the "Rain man" -like savant abilities so many of these kids have. It also explains why they have such a hard time shtting out external stimuli-because their brains have so much more processing power that they don't have to do what "regular" people do, and shut off inputs just to be able to process what they are seeing/hearing etc

Still I expect this will be some comfort to parents of Autistic kids. It's easier somehow to swallow the line "the problem is your kid is TOO smart" than "sorry your kid's brain is sub -par"

Personally, I liken it to having a car with a fantastic, high-performance engine, but the rest of the drivetrain can't keep up and a lot of that power never makes it to the road.

/and grinding gears can make you look like an asshole driver to the rest of the world

Came for someone obsessively pointing out the misspelling of autistic...

\and I guess it was me.

Leaving 18.75432183% more inconsolable.

I must be kawk-tistic then. Never had any trouble relating to others with it though.

Am winning again! I am the greetest!

common sense is an oxymoron: Magorn: It certainly explains the "Rain man" -like savant abilities so many of these kids have. It also explains why they have such a hard time shtting out external stimuli-because their brains have so much more processing power that they don't have to do what "regular" people do, and shut off inputs just to be able to process what they are seeing/hearing etc

Still I expect this will be some comfort to parents of Autistic kids. It's easier somehow to swallow the line "the problem is your kid is TOO smart" than "sorry your kid's brain is sub -par"

Personally, I liken it to having a car with a fantastic, high-performance engine, but the rest of the drivetrain can't keep up and a lot of that power never makes it to the road.

/and grinding gears can make you look like an asshole driver to the rest of the world

Or the wires are crossing. Or the message is getting lost along the way --

I read an article in discover (i think it was discover) about how our brains may very well be at peak performance. Any size increase you could do to the brain would be countered by a fall in efficiency. Your net brain power has a max value and the brain should only be so big as to maintain that max value.

It seems our biology figured out that if its going to make a gigantic brain, it better have a fantastic bang for its buck.

\When did autistic start meaning socially awkward genius? The autistic kids i knew had no extra smarts. In fact the ones who COULD function at all struggled with school and had absolutely no idea of what was going on socially. Its not so much special genius as it is special needs.

abb3w: So, are there environmental factors that might trigger more neural growth? Say, better diet?

I don't think you want more neural growth.

I recall there was a some suggestion that lack of vitamin D caused autism - a study involving increased autism among Somalis who had moved to northern latitudes.

Autistics originated in Austin, before rapidly spreading throughout the rest of the world.

There's no way that the viruses and bacteria inside vaccines could induce an over abundance of neuron production. Am i right?!

Boy, that Jenny McCarthy sure is silly.

mikefinch: common sense is an oxymoron: Magorn: It certainly explains the "Rain man" -like savant abilities so many of these kids have. It also explains why they have such a hard time shtting out external stimuli-because their brains have so much more processing power that they don't have to do what "regular" people do, and shut off inputs just to be able to process what they are seeing/hearing etc

Still I expect this will be some comfort to parents of Autistic kids. It's easier somehow to swallow the line "the problem is your kid is TOO smart" than "sorry your kid's brain is sub -par"

Personally, I liken it to having a car with a fantastic, high-performance engine, but the rest of the drivetrain can't keep up and a lot of that power never makes it to the road.

/and grinding gears can make you look like an asshole driver to the rest of the world

Or the wires are crossing. Or the message is getting lost along the way --

Either way, what's going on inside the head isn't being communicated effectively.

I read an article in discover (i think it was discover) about how our brains may very well be at peak performance. Any size increase you could do to the brain would be countered by a fall in efficiency. Your net brain power has a max value and the brain should only be so big as to maintain that max value.

It seems our biology figured out that if its going to make a gigantic brain, it better have a fantastic bang for its buck.

I read something similar. Larger brain --> longer pathways --> slower response and greater neuron density --> more complex networks --> slower response

Within the happy confines of civilization (such as it is), a slower response time isn't exactly optimal, but it won't get you killed as surely as it would in the wild while being stalked by a predator.

\When did autistic start meaning socially awkward genius? The autistic kids i knew had no extra smarts. In fact the ones who COULD function at all struggled with school and had absolutely no idea of what was going on socially. Its not so much special genius as it is special needs.

Even if there is a correlation between autism spectrum disorders and "low intelligence," generalization is not a good idea. I have been tested multiple times, most recently for vocational rehabilitation, and have been told repeatedly that if I were 40 or so years younger I would be classified as both gifted and learning-disabled. Granted, I may be an unusual case (from 1 in 100,000 or so to off the scale, depending on which frequency rates and correlations you assume among intelligence, autism, and ADD with or without the H), but from my perspective a description of "socially awkward genius" is semantically accurate but at the same time highly misleading.

/rant off
//buttons have been getting pushed
///not just on Fark
//actually, Fark is therapeutic
/shashie perseveration

common sense is an oxymoron:

/slashie perseveration

FTFM

natazha: Most people with autism do not have any special abilities and are often sub-normal. Excessive numbers of neurons can also be like too many cars on a highway, overloaded and at a standstill.

Speaking from experience with both ends of the spectrum.

Indeed. The sensory piece alone is often torture even to the highest-functioning kids.

HairBolus: abb3w: So, are there environmental factors that might trigger more neural growth? Say, better diet?

I don't think you want more neural growth.

I recall there was a some suggestion that lack of vitamin D caused autism - a study involving increased autism among Somalis who had moved to northern latitudes.

Makes sense. There's alot of autistic pirates in Sweden.

Educated people no autizm is coused by genetcelly engineared food and not vaxeens.

T.rex: There's no way that the viruses and bacteria inside vaccines could induce an over abundance of neuron production. Am i right?!

Boy, that Jenny McCarthy sure is silly.

FTFA: Neurons are only generated in the first 10-20 weeks of development.

Vaccination is recommended between birth and 6 months. So, barring time-resistant polio...

Check out the big brain on Brett! You're a smart motherfarker.

Only if I could have a glass dome covering my expanded brain

Fano: Only if I could have a glass dome covering my expanded brain

Hate to break it to you, but THAT isn't your brain...

So autism = neural tube defect?

DoBeDoBeDo: So Vaccines cause increases in the number of neurons in the brain?

Yes, but only because the mother was forced to have them.