Not at all:
"There is no knowledge that autism is more common in Jews, and no studies on ethnic groups with autism have been done before."
They are just looking for a small group of people that's as homogeneous as possible to look for hereditary aspects of autism. Nothing else.
Did the writer really have to describe autism as "a disorder involving abnormal introversion and egocentricity?"
I might be part Jewish. Here are the ethnicities I know for sure: Scottish, Irish, French, English, Mexican, and German. I am half Cajun so there might be some Native American mixed in there too (they married Indians while they were still living in Canada).
How do you know what your ethnic origin is beyond a few generations or a few hundred years? Each of us could, in theory, trace our ancestry back eternally!
My grandfather is obsessed with genealogy, so he's traced my family tree back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Of course, if we could trace our ancestors back many tens of thousands of years, we would find that they were all living in Africa.
It has been shown, I understand, that Austism is more common to Central and Eastern European communities. Chicken and egg. If we carry this hypothesis is it the case that it's more common to Jews, or simply the case that Ashkenazim are genetically eastern european?
Well, you've got my vote of Southern European (Mediterranean.) I wonder if perhaps I'll be the "lone wolf" in that category... I hope not.
Oh, so you have added a poll ...
btw, questions about ethnic origin are a no-no in Germany since the end of WW II.
I don't know why the poll doesn't include anything about being Jewish. It seems like "Ashkenazi Jew" should be an option.
Yer missed out an 'e' by the way ian
Just kidding of course, now get back to work!
xD
All into BDSM on this forum.
My descent according to my dad? I'm told German and Boer.
But people tell me I have odd, foreign features...Slavic or something.
German? that explains it all=D
*Goosesteps in time to rammstein's 'sonne'*
There's simply not enough diversity in the Poll answers. I feel uncomfortable as the only Mediterranean vote. Are there other Italian people with AS around?? Maybe not on AFF, perhaps?
Perhaps a new poll should be placed in the general forum, where more people will see it, and there will be greater diversity in the answers.
I think the number of "Northern European" votes is significant. It may be that AS is rare for non Northern Europeans, and you being the only Mediterranean vote is just part of that.
This post is kind of old; if anyone has redone it, I haven't seen it (yet).