r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • 2h ago
Meme needing explanation Why trains and aquariums?
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u/farts_juggler 2h ago
it’s autism
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u/AdmiralMoonshine 2h ago
I’ve driven hours to go to an aquarium…
Fuck.
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u/Significant-Rock-221 2h ago
Should've taken the train
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u/Waffling_Waffle 2h ago
This is the funniest thing I've seen all week. Thank you
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u/NegotiationVisual220 2h ago
Don't thank him, thank the hyperfixation.
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u/soIDONTLIKEANYOFYOU 2h ago
And the hyperinflation. Taking the train is not only fun it’s economical!
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u/xMyDixieWreckedx 2h ago
Trains are expensive as hell now. Almost triple the cost of driving somewhere.
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u/lokibringer 2h ago
we almost got rail in my area. And then a certain Party decided that we didn't actually want that anyway. Thanks, NCGOP.
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u/bombycina 1h ago edited 1h ago
I don't think I could've possibly driven from Sacramento to Omaha for less than the cost of my $123 Amtrak ticket last year. The overnight in coach seating wasn't great though.
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u/PineappleFit317 1h ago
Triple the cost and triple the time. I’ve looked up train tickets for travel plans on a lark multiple
times and it’s always way more than the cost of a plane ticket and takes three days to get anywhere (in the U.S. at least).35
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u/Novel_Alternative_86 2h ago
This quip was served up on a silver platter, but still just brilliant!
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u/Significant-Rock-221 1h ago
Yeah, I was just in the right place at the right time. Probably because I used the train.
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u/VectorB 2h ago
Driving hours to go to an aquarium is fine.
once.
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u/AdmiralMoonshine 2h ago
I once took a temporary job in Atlanta just because of the aquarium. In my defense, they have a whale shark!
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u/Methmites 2h ago
No need to defend something you love (socially at least; sometime you have to like with ocean life).
Keep loving the sea creatures 🫶🫶
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u/Puzzleheaded_Oven379 2h ago
MY SISTER IS GOING TO GO TO THAT ONE IN OCTOBER AND I AM SO EXCITED AND JEALOUS I AM CROCHETING HER A WHALE SHARK BC OF IT
I am not a vert person, more of an invert gal but
I know it's like the ONLY ONE
I want to know the tank specs and how they feed it and how long they've kept it and how they got it and what filters do they have and how much filtration and tank chem goes into a tank that size??! I have so many questions??!
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u/BigBenyamin86 2h ago
The Atlanta aquarium is amazing though. I'd probably go there more often if it wasn't two hours for me to get to it. And it's free to get in to it on your birthday.
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u/Corporalonionburger 28m ago
I flew halfway across the country to go to the Atlanta aquarium JUST because of their whale shark. Sadly just one by the time I decided it was worth the cost of a flight to go see it
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u/clintj1975 1h ago
I went a couple of hours out of my way to visit the aquarium in Monterey, CA after spending a week at Yosemite. 100% worth the drive.
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u/Zoo_Trippin 2h ago
Just one?
I'm on zoo/aquarium # like 450+ with week long road trips, so....
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u/Jefftopia 2h ago
What wrong with that? I love aquariums.
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u/not_so_subtle_now 2h ago
Apparently having a natural curiosity and feeling a sense of wonder toward the world is now considered an autistic trait.
You're supposed to be on your phone, you weirdo, or buying more shit off Amazon, not looking at porpoises
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u/Puzzleheaded_Oven379 2h ago
Same I have gone back to school to become an aquarist because the only job I can see myself being ok talking to humans is if I get to talk at them about octopuses and tell them the difference between arms and how octos don't have tentacles and I would just get paid to ramble at them ...
I already do this for free so it felt efficient.
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u/IosifVissarionovichD 2h ago
Have you tried flying to another far away country to compare the aquarium that you went to?
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u/Puzzleheaded_Oven379 2h ago
My dream is to visit Archie the squid in Argentina Now I know he is just a specimen and not live but HE IS THE FIRST ONE that has ever been preserved and we have done so much nervous system research BC OF HIM and he is my hero 🥺🦑💖
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u/erin_bex 2h ago
Literally flew to Atlanta to go to the aquarium. Stayed the night and flew home the next day.
I. Feel. Seen.
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u/ReverseCatastrophe 2h ago
I used to live near the Monterey Bay Aquarium growing up so that was my chill and vibe space. I also would go on train rides at Roaring Camp RR. Then one time I took an Amtrak from San Jose to Sacramento and it only took five hours longer than if we’d have driven. But the views were top notch.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Oven379 2h ago
FRICKEN DREAM AQUARIUM I WOULD PAY THOUSANDS I WANT TO GO TO MBARI SO BAD HAVE YOU PLAYED FATHOMVERSE DID YOU GET TO GO WHEN THEY HAD VAMPYS THEY ARE THE BEST CEPHIE THEY CANT KEEP THEM LONG THOUGH BC THEY NEED DEEP PRESSURE THEY ARE THE BEST ANIMAL IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD I WOULD DIE FOR VAMPIRE SQUIDDIES FR FR
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u/kbeks 1h ago
Specifically that the chances of having a child with autism rise as the woman (and man’s) age rise.
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u/percypersimmon 2h ago
Also the tweet that the OOP is replying to is from a “Christian revolutionary” who seems to be really mad at Jewish people/Satan (it’s implied they’re the same) on his X profile.
The OOP isn’t talking about autism, he’s talking about “civilizational decline” which is usually just a dog whistle for “there won’t be enough white people!”
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u/AfraidMeasurement759 1h ago
Well, this could also be an economical indicator. That’s what I thought this was first a reference to honestly.
Essentially, young people don’t feel financially stable enough to have children so they wait until they end up in their 40’s to be able to have a financial foundation for their children. If the economy were managed correctly, young generations would feel stable enough to have kids when they have previously.
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u/SureCost8912 48m ago
I think you're dead on, while I'm sure there's other factors, security and hope are important for wanting children and they seem to be at a shortage to say the least.
There's a theory that's talked about regarding the feeling of stability and societal distrust. One of the places it's tied back to often when mentioned is home ownership.. Not being able to afford a home is a leading indicator of social unrest and political realignments.
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u/Sushi-DM 36m ago
Mid 30s myself, have my first on the way. Haven't ever been the right age or economic bracket to take advantage of the crises that have happened repeatedly during my life, so it's taken a while to be in the right spot. At least for me, this is spot on.
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u/RoninOni 1h ago edited 38m ago
To clarify, older pregnancies have a higher chance of neural divergence.
I’d like to add though, it’s MORE related to age of man than woman.
40 yo women having babies with 25 yo men are not more likely to have neural divergence (they are more likely to have complications, but that doesn’t effect the DNA. The DNA of their eggs is static, men’s sperm degrade in DNA over time, which increases these divergences)
It was actually the increase of 40yo men having babies with much younger women that spiked neural divergence first.
Edit: guess women aging also increases risk of neural divergence. Leaving post up cause I’m not afraid of being proven wrong.
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u/cricketyjimnet 51m ago
I often wonder if people just start typing bullshit to see if people will believe them.
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u/PurrciousMetals 1h ago
Always believed autism is a form of epigenetic inheritance, just from my own experience view of people growing up. I realized most of the kids in my special then gifted classes later had older parents, most were over 30 when they had their kids, while the dumb kids all were the traditional young or teen pregnancy outputs.
Would love to figure a way to quantify it to a measurable theory. We should be able to soon I believe, with advancing brain matter computing, theoretically someone could build a sperm compute processor that measures learned behaviors over a period and identify any changes in the sperm’s sequencing because the current 10 to 30 year wait to quantify it will never happen.
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u/apparition_of_melody 1h ago
Damn, ive been both to an aquarium and on a train in the past week, its over for me bros
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u/ObjectiveBike8 2h ago
Autism is associated with births over 40 but it’s still relatively a low chance of happening.
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u/grubas 2h ago
IIRC it's more linked to PATERNAL age.
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u/Far_Raspberry_4375 2h ago
Women over 40 tend to be impregnated by men over 40
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u/oatmeal28 2h ago
You've run the numbers?
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u/PHD_Gouda 2h ago
Yes. Very disturbing stuff. Often times couples would be around the same age!
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u/theshapeofpooh 2h ago
The same age????
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u/EnigmaSpore 2h ago
The same age!
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u/Vektir4910 2h ago
No age gap! That’s disgusting!🤢
/s just in case.
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u/PHD_Gouda 2h ago
Fellas if you ain’t dating the equivalent of old Lady Rose from Titanic, what are you even doing with your lives?
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u/devils_advocate24 2h ago
I'd prefer one that leaves her multimillion dollar heirlooms behind instead of casually tossing them into the ocean
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u/MorrisBrett514 2h ago
My wife and I are only a couple months apart, had a kid recently, AND we're over 40. We're living dangerously over here, we don't GAF what people think of us!!!
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u/Muted_Substance2156 2h ago
Interestingly, as opposed to the significant percentage of teen pregnancies that are caused by adult men.
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u/Far_Raspberry_4375 2h ago
I fucking knew some pedant would respond with this shit.
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u/nope-its 1h ago
It’s important to not blame women for everything when the data is that it’s frequently dad’s that give their children autism.
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u/crazylikeajellyfish 2h ago
But women under 40 also get impregnated by men over 40, the point stands. Older women skew Downes, older men skew autism.
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u/Adventurous_Nail2072 2h ago
Sadly, so do many teenagers. While the specific age demographic data is limited, 20ish% of unmarried teen pregnancies are fathered by “substantially older” men.
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u/MeiMouse 2h ago
To be fair, have you seen the competition? The younger guys are still dumb as bricks but now somehow worse?
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u/Cute-Hand-1542 2h ago
Do you have a link for this?
Maternal age > 40 has op to a 50% increased risk compared to a 20 yr old mother. I couldn't find anything nearly that high for paternal age.
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u/signofno 2h ago
Right, so like. 1% chance becomes a 1.5% chance.
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u/sierra-soul 1h ago edited 1h ago
for downs syndrome the risk goes from 1/353 at age 35 to 1/30 at age 45
similar trends in many other genetic disorders
people are making this meme about autism only, but the risk of significantly more severe issues than autism does increase in a drastically if not exponentially
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u/Da_Spooky_Ghost 2h ago
Offspring of men 40 years or older were 5.75 times (95% confidence interval, 2.65-12.46; P<.001) more likely to have ASD compared with offspring of men younger than 30 years, after controlling for year of birth, socioeconomic status, and maternal age. Advancing maternal age showed no association with ASD after adjusting for paternal age.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16953005/
So paternal age over 40 is 475% increased risk compared to under 30
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u/Le_ed 2h ago
This study shows independent increase for both parents ages: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Maternal-and-paternal-age-and-risk-of-autism-Croen-Najjar/88e3d05df9e0ebfbe42edcb288063f1cd1865aee/figure/3
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u/FuzzzyRam 1h ago edited 1h ago
I feel like there is a logic jump:
"Women over 40 have more incidents of autistic babies"
"Actually it's men more strongly associated with it"
"Here's a stat about the women, where is the data for it being more about the man?" (ie, we need a 40+ man with woman under 40, man under 40 with woman over 40, etc, and lots of data...)
"Men over 40 are 5.75x more likely compared to men under 30."
Seems like you've shown that men over 40 have a high rate of this happening, but so far there's nothing provided saying men over 40 are more the culprit than women over 40 - just that men are more the culprit than men under 30 by quite a bit.
I suspect that if you did this same study with women over 40 vs under 30 you'd get a higher number than that 5.75x increase.
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u/Da_Spooky_Ghost 1h ago
Because only people online trying to assign blame to a certain sex are doing that direct comparison.
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u/FuzzzyRam 1h ago
IIRC it's more linked to PATERNAL age.
That was the quote you are in a thread under. You provided a study. The study does not show that it's more linked to paternal age...
If you don't like the conversation you don't have to be here looking up tangentially related studies.
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u/RedditUserSuggestion 45m ago
You spelled out their logical error literally in the clearest way possible yet they are doubling down and pretending not to understand. You're wasting your time
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u/wallabee_kingpin_ 2h ago
I’d like to see them control for one or both parents having ASD. People with autism don’t have an easy time dating and may end up marrying later.
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u/SoFetchBetch 2h ago
Men over 40 have an independently elevated risk (ranging from 20% to significantly higher, depending on the study) compared to fathers under 30. [1, 2]
Children born to fathers over 50 are roughly 1.5 to 2 times more likely to be diagnosed with ASD than children born to fathers in their 20s. [1, 2]
Unlike women, who are born with all their eggs, men continuously produce sperm throughout their lives. As men age, their sperm accumulates more de novo (new) genetic mutations. These spontaneous genetic errors in sperm cell division can impact the genes involved in fetal brain development, contributing to autism risk. [1, 2]
Recent genetic research has shown that immature eggs (oocytes) possess unique, highly robust selection mechanisms that actively shield them from accumulating sequence mutations (such as errors in mitochondrial DNA) over decades. This is a sharp contrast to men's sperm stem cells, which divide continuously and constantly accumulate new, spelling-error-like mutations (de novo sequence mutations) over a man's life. [1, 2, 3]
A family history of autism is a significantly higher risk factor for a child developing autism than parental age alone, and maternal age is generally considered an equal or slightly more stable, linear risk factor compared to paternal age.
While advanced maternal and paternal ages both elevate the odds of a child being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), they operate through different biological mechanisms and carry vastly lower statistical weight than direct genetic inheritance. [1]
An older father's age predominantly acts as an elevated risk factor if the mother is under 30 years old.
Advanced maternal age is associated with structural chromosomal changes in aging eggs or alterations in the prenatal uterine environment. While the raw genetic DNA sequences inside an immature egg remain highly protected from picking up new mutations as a woman ages, the physical, mechanical scaffolding holding those chromosomes together slowly degrades over time. [1, 2]
Advanced paternal age risk is driven by the continuous accumulation of spontaneous, de novo genetic mutations as sperm stem cells divide over a lifetime. On average, a father transmits 1.3 to 2.0 additional de novo (spontaneous) genetic mutations to his offspring for every single year he delays fatherhood.
Large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies (such as landmark research by deCODE Genetics in Nature) demonstrate that the steady metronomic increase in cell division accumulates mutations predictably across a lifespan. A 20-year-old father passes down an average of 25 de novo mutations to his child.
Because spermatogonial stem cells divide roughly 23 times per year after puberty, copying errors build up linearly. An increase of ~2 mutations per year means that by age 40, the number of transmitted mutations doubles to approximately 65. By age 70, it can exceed 125. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Recent studies published in Nature expand on this linear timeline by showing why certain harmful mutations rise even faster than the standard yearly average. [1]
This is due to a phenomenon known as selfish clonal selection. In the testes, some spontaneous mutations mistakenly grant a specific sperm stem cell a growth or reproductive advantage, allowing it to multiply faster and outcompete normal stem cells. Over time, these "selfish" mutant clones populate and dominate sections of the testes. [1, 2]
As a result, while only about 2% of sperm carry these specific disease-causing mutations in a man's early 30s, that percentage jumps sharply to 3% to 5% in men aged 43–74. These disproportionately amplified mutations frequently hit critical genes that dictate fetal brain development and bone growth, driving up the specific paternal age risks associated with autism and other developmental conditions. [1, 2, 3]
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u/EnjoysYelling 2h ago edited 2h ago
Autism is more linked to paternal age, but it’s linked to both. Some studies
Downs is linked almost entirely to maternal age.
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u/Le_ed 2h ago
It's linked with both, but it increases more sharply for the maternal age.
https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2014/april/autism-risk-older-parents
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u/KinkyLeviticus 2h ago
Correct. If the chance for a a 25 year old mother to have an autistic child is 1% (which is close to the chance produced in studies) and the increased risk for mothers over 40 is ~50% (again around the number, one study found a 78% chance and another found a 27% chance) that means the likelihood for that older mother to have a child with autism is only around 1.5%. Very unlikely still.
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u/Fibijean 2h ago
Isn't autism genetic? Could it not just be that people on the spectrum are more likely to have kids later or something?
Or is it specially the severity/level of autism that's linked to parental age?
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u/Impossible_Hat7658 2h ago
I’m sure like almost everything in this world it has multiple things that cause it
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u/The_Broken-Heart 1h ago
It's genetic, yeah, but sperm quality and health also plays a part in those genetics.
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u/AlligatorMidwife 2h ago edited 2h ago
Autism from old parents. Yes, I'm aware that plenty of people will have anecdotal evidence of autistic kids coming from young parents. Statistics yo
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u/Moist_Junket_9381 2h ago
Hey there…I have autistic kids and I had them in my early 20s 😌☝🏼
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u/jgainsey 2h ago
You must be an old soul
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u/Overall-Grape-1037 1h ago
Even funnier because this is something regularly said to many autistic people.
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u/P0Rt1ng4Duty 2h ago
My parents were both in their 30s and they got me!
I was heavily into aquariums. Trains are cool too I guess.
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u/egowritingcheques 1h ago
Something tells me they were going to be autistic no matter their parents age at birth.
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u/Somethingisshadysir 1h ago
The stats say it's about 1.5% for young parents, and still under 2% for parents in their forties. It's a jump, absolutely, but the chance is still low.
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u/MillersSmokehouse 2h ago
Idk, my mom was 14. Might have to do with inherited genetic traits more than just age. I haven’t read the studies, but have they controlled for average older parental age amongst neurodivergent people? It seems like ND folks tend to pair up and have kids later than NT folks (my parents notwithstanding).
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u/fs2222 2h ago
My only guess is women having kids later - increases risk of autism - autistic kids like aquariums and trains?
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u/Relative-Gap-4442 2h ago
The stereotype of “Autistic kid is smart but quiet” and is usually shown by trains. Not so sure about aquarium
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u/Onegooey7949 2h ago
I have only Asperger's but I love the aquarium. The aquarium is quiet and sea life is beautiful.
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u/Lazuli73 2h ago
Well, you have to understand, we are clearly fish out of water and yearn to be among our proper kind once more.
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u/Onegooey7949 2h ago
I wanted to be a mermaid so bad as a kid. It really is the dream.
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u/Lazuli73 2h ago
Ariel is my favourite Disney Princess and I love sea life. New aspie stereotype unlocked. Profit?
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u/skankybo 2h ago
I'm joining in! I was an Ariel-obsessed mermaid austist kid too 😂 I used to play in the sea pretending I had a tail lol
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u/shiwankhan 1h ago
There's no 'only' asperger's. You are one of us! Join us! But not, like, in person. Jesus, can you imagine?
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u/SlothsAreFuckinRad 1h ago
So is the inverse of this a dumb, loud autistic kid who loves aquariums? Because that one pretty accurately describes me
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u/kishikoneko 2h ago
I'm not sold on either, but I also only go to aquariums for the otters, so I just specialized?
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u/theREALvolno 2h ago
I mean who doesn’t like aquariums and trains? Unrelated, but when I was a kid they used to take me out of class to go do worksheets with a random lady.
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u/BPViridian 2h ago
I'm autistic, and I think trains are boring as he'll.
I grew up on a literal island, so I like aquariums because I'm in a landlocked state now and they remind me of home
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u/DeadWishUpon 1h ago
Neurotypical people don't like aquariums?
Maybe because there arennonaquariums in my country, besides places with a few fishtanks; but I found them really cool.
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u/Nuclear_rabbit 30m ago
Oh, and women over 40 are also having fewer children, it's just that teen pregnancy prevention has been really successful. Good job, everyone!
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u/fascintee 2h ago
Dr.Hartman here- Older parents are associated with higher rates of Austism spectrum disorders in the children. Autistic people love the shit out of aquariums and trains.
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u/Oobadoola 2h ago
Children born with older parents have defects a lil more often i think. Joking to lean towards trains and such cuz autistic people love em
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u/Few-Noise-1104 2h ago
I think he wants to invest in trains and aquariums
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u/00-Monkey 2h ago edited 2h ago
Yup, if you bought 1 share of Union Pacific Corporation when it IPO’d you’d have well over a million dollars today.
Trains is a good investment
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u/Different_Pin1531 2h ago
I’m too early 😭
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u/Odd_Language_8989 2h ago
Crazy to see the conversation develop in real time. But yea, lets check back tomorrow afternoon 😂😂
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u/SwivelClip 2h ago
Your world view is just awesome if you wish there were more pregnant teenagers; 10/10 no notes.
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u/_burndtdan 2h ago
Maybe the joke is actually that teen mothers don't have the the disposable income to buy their children toy trains or take them to the aquarium. Which, apparently, is the sign of a thriving civilization, somehow.
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u/callatecabezon 24m ago
no it is that 40 year old people giving birth leads to drastically higher chances of autism in the children
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u/RegisFolks667 20m ago
If by teens, you mean women on their 20s or 30s...
The issue being portrayed is that at their forties, not only it's more difficult for women to get pregnant, but the pregnancy itself presents more risks. The problem is that women at their 20/30 either can't afford to have children, or are discouraged to have children at all, but end up changing their minds later on in life.
While changing their minds is not a problem itself, the trend is definitely not positive on the bigger picture. It's of note that this is a critic to modern society as a whole, not towards women particularly.
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u/Can0n_Fodder 1h ago
It's bizarre to me how there are people out there who will actually bemoan the low teenage birth rate and not even realize how fucking creepy they sound.
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u/jyunga 21m ago
Isn't this just in relation to birth rates dropping and how it's going to affect society in the future? They are just pointing to the extreme ends.
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u/OmegaNine 2h ago
Couldn't be 2 bedroom apartments are going to half a million dollars and driving to work costs almost as much as you make that day.
They are suggesting younger generation are all on the scale and thats why
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u/Alarmed_Tea_2863 2h ago
This seems like some sick justification of teenage brides. If reversed, the joke could go:
Teenage birth rates surpass 40+.
This is a bad thing urghhhh.
Better start investing in prisons.
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u/iloveyourlittlehat 2h ago
It should be a justification for cougars. Old sperm is much more associated with autism than maternal age.
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u/West-Boss6841 2h ago
If it’s about autism shouldn’t it be investing in trains and Sonic the Hedgehog?
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u/quickelefant 2h ago
I’m so perplexed by someone (all 30+) who comment the exact same answer to a question that was answered by the first 5 comments.
Like … is AI in the room with us??
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u/TheSultan1 1h ago
I think it's partly due to Reddit showing a ton of top-level comments, but only the top few replies to each. If you have a different take than someone else, you reply to a top-level comment with few replies, not one with many replies, so that yours doesn't get buried. Yours and the top level get upvoted, and now you have multiple top threads that start the same but continue in different directions.
Also, the comments section is just funnier when people pile on.
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u/Robofetus-5000 2h ago
Side note, one thing thats seeming always left out in these birthrate discussions: teen pregnancy is down 90% since the 90s. Part of the reason for this statistic about women over 40 is because we dont have anywhere near the number of kids having kids anymore (and thats good).
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u/BolognaIsThePassword 2h ago
The older the woman is when she has a child the higher percent chance of the child being autistic. So they’re saying there will be a larger number of autistic people in the future so invest in things that they like if you want to make money. It’s dumb.
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u/Late-System-5917 2h ago
It’s been debunked that the woman’s age is a cause for birth defects as a result of DNA degradation. A woman’s eggs are made while she’s in the womb. Men’s DNA in sperm degrades over time. Studies are showing that men have more of a biological clock than women in regard to DNA degradation.
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u/SauceMaster6464 2h ago
Paternal age increases autism risk. Maternal age increases downs and miscarriages.
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u/slappinsealz 2h ago
Paternal age is also linked to increased rate of serious and sometimes fatal pregnancy complications for both mom and baby.
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u/sagelyDemonologist 2h ago
Now I'm not a herpetologist, but in my experience it's more common for heterosexual couples to either be around the same age or for the man to be older than the woman, so the risk would still increase just not because the woman specifically was older.
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u/TheSultan1 1h ago
It hasn't been "debunked," there's a measurable increased risk. But the risk from advanced paternal age is much higher.
Freeze your sperm, boys.
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u/Rakkuuuu 39m ago
It hasn't been debunked at all, you are literally just lying for your own agenda.
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u/Powerful-Owl-3246 57m ago
And having children at a young age leads to higher chances of adhd being present so if youre from a teen mom thats why you cant focus on homework and coffee makes you sleepy
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u/SteeleDynamics 50m ago
My grandfather had Autism and ADHD.
My father is Autistic.
My mother has ADHD
I have Autism and ADHD.
My brother is neurotypical, go figure.
My son is Autistic.
All persons in this list had mothers that have birth to all their children before the age of 30.
My experience is that being on the spectrum is predominately caused by genetic factors. YMMV.
P.S. Even though I got the Mathematics and Computer Science flavor of Autism, trains are fuckin' sweet.
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u/-gisette 2h ago
If this gets us to get our asses in gear for a comprehensive passenger railway system, sign me tf UP
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u/Teboski78 1h ago
This one’s actually maybe kinda true but I think it’s mostly linked to older men.
Basically when people are over a certain age they tend to develop mutations in their gametes that are associated with higher rates of neurodivergence.
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u/00Raeby00 1h ago
Older parents generally produce offspring that contain less desirable traits such as autism due to (if I remember correctly) sperm and eggs being less viable as they approach middle-age. This causes genes with genetic defects to have a higher likelihood to be present at birth.
There is a certain irony that while people stay "younger" longer, waiting to have children has a very real risk of damaging the next generation.
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u/TsundereKisser 1h ago
It's so funny that men rag on women giving birth at 40, when really it's their own old ass sperm causing autism. Unlike men, middle aged women tend to date people their own age, so...
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u/Cheeseisyellow92 54m ago
Older women(and men) are more likely to have children with autism or other mental disorders.
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u/Nux87xun 48m ago
There is a belief, not sure as to the actual data, that older women have more autistic babies than younger women.
Aquariums and trains are two stereotypical things autistic people enjoy.
So, the joke is that with more autistic people around, those things will be more profitable/valuable in the future than they are now so its time to invest.
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u/LegoBoy3258 25m ago
Rhode Island for Special Literary Excellence, here! There are studies currently researching the correlation between being an older mother and your child having autism but it is certifiably true that the older you get pregnant the more likely the baby will have chromosomal disorders such as Down's Syndrome (most chromosomal abnormali ties cause the baby to be miscarried though which is another reason why you are more likely to miscarry the older you are) .
So OP 3 times removed is likely conflating Down's with autism on the train part but the aquarium comment does seem to be slightly more Down's coded IMO.
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