17/09/2026
๐งฉ๐โจAutism is Genetic?๐ค๐คจ
๐ฅน I am deeply troubled by the recent institutional statements reducing autism to a purely genetic inevitability. Telling parents โitโs just the way they are bornโ shuts the door on understanding the live, physiological root causes.
๐โจ Lived experience and neurodevelopmental science show that genes express dynamically based on the load placed on the body [Sandin et al., 2014].
๐ตโ๐ซ When an infantโs sensitive system faces a perfect storm of early physical stress, metabolic drops, and nervous system trauma, it retreats into a protective, non-responsive freeze to survive [Porges, 2021; Van der Kolk, 2014].
๐ฅฐ My own daughter's journeyโfrom profound regression to a magnificent university graduationโproves that when you stop looking at a static behavioural label and start clearing the cellular static, real recovery is possible.
๐โจ๐งฉ Our children are not defective; they are intensely sensitive systems that can be supported to thrive. Letโs change the narrative. โค๏ธ๐ซ