Experimental Gene Therapies – Tuesday 30th March 2021 When I was working out genetics in relation to Rett Syndrome, the common belief in the field at that time was that most or many disease causing mutations were random. In working out the cause of the mutation in Rett I discovered that at least for some,… Read More →
Autism and Genetics – Thursday 25th March 2021 An article regarding Autism caught my eye as I was scrolling through earlier today and I read a portion of it and had to attend to something. I intended to read it through, but I couldn’t find it again, so I am also unable to note the… Read More →
The Possible Origins of Racism – Monday 22nd March 2021 I have long suspected that racism is a thing that we incorrectly translated from our very early times. And over time, became something that wasn’t meant to be. All creatures have in their make-ups the instinct to not be with creatures that differ from themselves…. Read More →
Going Through Doorways and Prompting Forgetfulness Sunday 14th March 2021. An interesting subject, another contributing factor is the movement itself to go to the kitchen. It’s your memory system walking you there and you are making sure there isn’t anything underfoot to stand or trip on etc. Could be children and or pets about. It… Read More →
Evolution Drives Autism and Other Conditions to Occur More Frequently in Boys. Friday 5th March 2021 Actually, that isn’t quite correct. These conditions occur equally but they don’t present the same. For example Rett Syndrome is generally only seen in girls, my son has a Rett Syndrome because it passed to him from me. When… Read More →
Covid-19 Kawasaki (like) Disease, Genetics, Children and Multi System Inflammatory Syndrome 18th May 2020 Thus far, we have a population of children presenting with serious symptoms now called Multi System Inflammatory Syndrome and thought to be related to the Corona Virus Covid-19 as the cases commenced to show up at the same time as the… Read More →
Thinking Thoughts 19th April 2019 Being made up of ancient molecules provokes the question as to what happens to those molecules when we each, one day, must sadly expire. We tend to place all importance on our earthly lives while our molecular selves or those molecules that were once driving each of our beings, do… Read More →
Autistic Type Disorders in Rett Syndrome & Other Conditions. Autism and Rett Syndrome have some factors in common but are distinct disorders from one another. Often children with Rett Syndrome show autistic traits but there is always other issues present, (or on their way), sadly. It would be extremely rare for a mecp2 error to… Read More →
Down Syndrome – Autism – Rett Syndrome 17th October 2018 Back in 1996/97 I’d realised that my son and I had significant issues that other autistic people didn’t have. There were things we had in common and many more that we didn’t. I needed to find the answer for those issues that weren’t part of… Read More →
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