wow…..its so wesome that all these studies are being done. Wouldnt it be awesome if we worked out how to avoid it all together.

Thank you for sharing this intriguing article.

Thank god they’re finding links other then vaccinations. Hopefully it is right and something we can work on

It will be interesting to see if this is true. If so then it is another condition that we may be able to control.

This is interesting research and far more feasible and acceptable than the ill-informed anti-vaxxers who insist autism is from vaccinations (NOT!). I was very sick for the entire 9 months of my pregnancy, so imagine that yes I may have been Vitamin D deficient. My son has autism/aspergers, and I know that he had this before his first vaccination. He was born this it. So this is a far more feasible reason to me.

There is always something we are deficient in….,

I sure think vitamin D is essential for many things and that daily exposure to the sun is a great way to increase our vitamin D level.
As the article says I totally believe as well that Autism is linked to dozens if not hundreds of different mechanisms which lead to this condition.

In USA some children are diagnosed by the age of 2 y.o. and start therapy by then if there is speech problems. I know somebody who was a nanny to one a few years ago. They recently visited the family for a special occasion. 8 years later he says abbreviated sentences, enough that you know what he is trying to say. He just misses out the words that basically aren’t needed but he doesn’t know that. e.g. he might try to say “I need to go to the toilet” he may say “need toilet” or ” I go toilet” In some things he is a very smart boy.

This is interesting to know

Vitamin D is so widespread. It should become common routine when a GP prescribes you a blood test.

Thanks for the important information.

I was living in Qld at the time, and certainly got plenty of vitamin D, plus i was taking a fully qualified pregnancy vitamin supplement – so my intake of vitamin D exceeded the daily intake, but it made no difference.

I would say it is all the chemicals in our foods, and what we are exposed to everyday that has impacted on these changes

or is it, that these special children are really here to teach us all to step our of our comfort zones and look at life from a different perspective, albeit rather challenging for many of us!

Its amazing what they can find on medical things.

A good walk through a park early in the morning or later in the evening every day would give you a good dose of Vitamin D without getting sunburnt and the fresh air and exercise wouldn’t go astray either.

My son has HF Autism I took prenatal vitamins and had regular tests my vit D levels were fine however my vit D levels were very low during my pregnancy with my 9 year old and yet she doesn’t have Autism. At this point it seems like absolutely everything causes Autism.

Gosh, I am the Mum of an autistic son, and the guilt attached to such a finding is incredibly overwhelming. I really wish this kind of post was only put to print if the outcomes were ratified. Not sure that is so here with the loose wording. STOP PROMOTING SENSATIONALISM.

The actual academic text this information is based on does just say it is a possibility that insufficient Vitamin D during gestation MAY cause a child to display autistic traits, not that Vit D causes autism. It also states it is only a possibility and, more importantly, the the Vit D may simply be a flag for child not being “normal” but not necessarily be autistic.

This is the first article that doesn’t just knee jerk state that insufficient Vit D during pregnancy causes autism. Thank you for that as those sorts of inaccurate statements – Low Vit D causes autism – not only scare expectant mothers, but keep up the scare tactics that coat autism with such a dark, negative stigma. It isn’t the black plague of the 21st century some people make it out to be. ????