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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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btw, the correlation between autistic fathers' age and autistic offspring is a social one. quiet obviously.
Could you please explain, because it's not obvious to me and if true that sounds like something I'd like to understand.
due to the difficulties with social interactions autistics do by average build the relationships that accomodate parenthood at a later age than other people.
So you're saying that when looking for a correlation between age of the father and prevalence of autism of the child, you need to account for the confounding factor of heritability since among a population of fathers who are older, there will be a higher prevalence of autism than in a population of fathers of an even distribution of ages (the general population) due to the social factor.
Sounds like a reasonable and logical take. Are you aware of any studies that show this or is it your own hypothesis?