I read a medical paper out of spite. HIDE YOUR POOP! Or save it?
English not first language so bear with me.
I saw an Instagram post claiming that autism is CAUSED (their wording) by our gut microbiota and that autism can now additionally be diagnosed by just taking a stool sample and analizing your gut microbiome. The part about diagnosing is true but IT'S NOT CAUSED by that, no proof.
They dared link the paper, so why not? If I became autistic because of my ARFID I might as well read 27 pages of a paper to tell you that you suck for spreading misinformation.
Long story short, they took down the post because of me.
But let me tell you, the paper actually seems really interesting.. They quote another paper where basically they put autistic stool inside of rats and the RATS STARTED ACTING AUTISTICALLY!!!! Not only that, they didn't stop at that, they put healthy NT poop inside autistics and they could notice that some symptoms got better.
So apparently it is true that we can now be diagnosed by our poop and some annoying symptoms could be better managed by treating your gut microbiome.
But the real take away here is that we could also put our poop inside NTs and make them act autistically. So there you have my evil autism of the day.
And jokes on all of you, you just got info dumped!!! (I don't think info dumping gets better with healthy poop)
Mice study https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7r99g8kg
Edit: fixed language mistake