"Strikingly, up to 80% of individuals diagnosed with ASD are male, suggesting sex-specific neurodevelopment underlies this condition."<p>There's also a suggestion that women have more social pressure/conditioning to act a certain way and thus are more efficient at an early age at "masking" symptoms of ASD and less likely to get an opportunity to be tested. Maybe there can be multiple suggestions though (yes, rtfad).
This seems like a massively important result that more or less confirms what we already know (plastic as hormone disruptor) so I don’t understand why it’s not getting more attention
> Although bisphenol A (BPA) has since been replaced by other bisphenols such as bisphenol S in BPA-free plastics, all bisphenols are endocrine-disrupting chemicals that can alter steroid signaling and metabolism.<p>There is some awareness of BPAs role in affecting the endocrine system. As the paper mentions merely being BPA-free doesn't mean one is out of the woods. All bisphenols are to some extent as disruptive as BPA is. Hadn't known that.<p>There's a list of other bisphenols here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol</a>
Bisphenol A - BPA - an industrial chemical that has been used to make certain plastics and resins since the 1950s.<p>BPAs and modern vaccines have been around for roughly the same length of time, so I find it interesting that the random facebook posts being spread about saying "there wasn't as much autism in olden times because they didn't have vaccines" might have been at least a little bit accurate, even if they were wrong about the cause(vaccines).<p>Also, BPAs have a lot of other affects and frankly shouldn't be allowed, even if this study isn't replicable.