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Children of the Stars: Autism in China

Posted on June 27, 2008

I ve been learning a lot from a recent discussion here about autism genetics. My own interest in the topic arises from what it reveals about how Charlie is linked to us, to our family. While neither Jim s nor my family has had a child with an autism diagnosis prior to Charlie, we ve both noted autistic traits in relatives in both of our families.I m Chinese American on both sides. I m third-generation; both sets of grandparents emigrated to the US from Toysan County (Toysan is the Cantonese pronunciation of Taishan, the county s name in Mandarin). All but a few of my very distant r...

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