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What is autism?

The main causes of autism are as follows:

Brain injury:

Including brain hypoplasia caused by embarrassing abortion during pregnancy, premature delivery, dystocia, neonatal brain injury during childbirth, infant infection with encephalitis, meningitis and other diseases, may increase the chance of autism.

(2) Virus infection during pregnancy:

Women may be infected with measles or influenza virus during pregnancy, which may damage the brain development of the fetus and lead to autism.

(3) Genetic factors:

Among the 20% autistic people, his family can find people with mental retardation, language retardation and similar autism. In addition, about 10% of autistic boys have chromosome fragility.

(4) Metabolic diseases:

Congenital metabolic disorders, such as phenylketonuria, cause dysfunction and disorder of brain cells, which will affect the function of nerve information transmission in the brain and cause autism.

(5) Of course, there are other discussions about the reasons, but there is no exact reason.

Autism is an escape from the cold and dangerous outside world. Behaviorists believe that autism is the result of parents' improper behavior towards their children.