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alexseanchai) wrote2015-12-30 03:34 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2015-12-30 03:34 pm
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My folks, bar youngest sister, all went to see Star Wars. Obviously I can't go. Koff koff hack hack koff. So I grabbed one of the books I've been meaning to read. Spiritual Foodways: An Ecofeminist Perspective on Our Sacred Journey With Food, Teresa Marbut. Sounds fascinating, right?
In the introduction, Marbut outs her son as autistic, ADHD, schizophrenic, and bipolar. And then asserts (no footnotes on this assertion; at this point in the introduction, there have been eighty footnotes, so it's not that she is having trouble with the concept of citing sources) "Each of these conditions has been linked--as probable, partial causal factors--with the foods I ate as a child, the foods I ate before I got pregnant with him, and the foods I ate during my pregnancy;" also the BPA in his baby bottles and the processed foods he himself ate when small.
I am really pissed off at this author.
In the introduction, Marbut outs her son as autistic, ADHD, schizophrenic, and bipolar. And then asserts (no footnotes on this assertion; at this point in the introduction, there have been eighty footnotes, so it's not that she is having trouble with the concept of citing sources) "Each of these conditions has been linked--as probable, partial causal factors--with the foods I ate as a child, the foods I ate before I got pregnant with him, and the foods I ate during my pregnancy;" also the BPA in his baby bottles and the processed foods he himself ate when small.
I am really pissed off at this author.
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It really does sound like a fascinating book other than that little gem, but I've been reading Narnia fanfics for two hours instead of this book because I'm too aggravated to go back to the book.
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But back to interaction: what about the social interactions and events which shaped his intellectual, emotional and social development?
Oh,wait, no, it's ALL attributable to BPA and non-organic food consumption.
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As far as I know, eating bad crap makes my emotions harder to deal with, my physical body feel sluggish and sore, my pain management go out the window, and my bathroom scale GROAN at me.
Which adds up to, "If she' already had 80 footnotes in the introduction, I think she KNOWS this was just a case of determined, willful illogic on her part.
As for outing her kid... Yeah, that's pretty low, and I'm not sure how I'd deal with that if she were family instead of Random Author.
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It hit me a few minutes ago: Ecofeminist doesn't equate to Disability Justice Activist. (I suspect nothing does equate to Disability Justice Activist, except of course Disability Justice Activist.) That's...a problem.
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Heaven knows, growing up with someone's One True Solution to disability sucked for me, but at least it wasn't OBVIOUSLY on the edges of average American experience.
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"If you eat this superfood, maybe it will make everything better. Here, try this homeopathic/organic/natural remedy. Maybe meditation? Meditation is good."
I did't tell mom about the scar tissue on my white matter for /years/ because I didn't want her to do that even more.
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(we're pretty sure by this point it's nothing, but for a while there was a fear it might be the early stages of MS.)
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But I'm not sure I've seen anything linking epigenetics with any of those things.
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I don't know what precisely she's talking about. She didn't footnote this claim! But it really does just sound like autism scaremongering.
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So yeah. There do seem to be some legit sources, but without digging through them I don't know who funded them so they may not really be legit upon examination.
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Oh ew. Yes.
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also, i have read some things being like "bipolar and schizophrenia may very likely be genetics based and triggered epigenetics, but we have no idea WHAT the triggers are or how to turn them off and this needs a bajillion more dollars and years of research."
which would seem like something...she...could...footnote.
oh look, here, this took less than 5 minutes:
"The fluctuating course and the evidence that stress can play a triggering role in bipolar disorder suggest the possibility of an epigenetic component to pathogenesis and pathophysiology....No definitive results have yet been published that clearly demonstrate a role for epigenetic variation in bipolar disorder etiology or pathophysiology."
Shinozaki, Gen, Benjamin Hing and James B. Potash (December 31, 2015). Epigenetics in Psychiatry (pp. 265-278). Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124171145000139
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Pattern observed by people diagnosed autistic a lot younger than me: it's all about the neurotypical parent(s). Not the autistic kid. Screw the kid's feelings. Kid ain't important. Just how kid's problems make Mommy feel.
Which is blazingly unethical, yes.
Yep. Not surprised, somehow.
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The thing is the library doesn't own it. I do.
And it does sound fascinating...just...
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Yup