​"Hey, I'm not crazy --- I'm autistic"

Val's Take/Conjecture

• One of my favorite Autistic Youtubers made the comment above.
• Interestingly, he also asked --- Is this getting worse?
• It is the Neuro-Developmental/Psychiatric Continuum
• I think a lot of people who don't fit very neatly into DSM 5 categories and symptom clusters --- come to the attention of Mental Health or the Health Care System through some sort of CRISIS nobody expected.

​One of things that is important to understand is that INFLAMMATION is really a UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.

So Maternal Immune Activation can come from a lot of things:

• infection
• auto-immune disease
• obesity
• trauma
• chemical exposure
• etc.

• I think a lot of this is Maternal Inflammation In Utero.
• BUT that SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION can set us up for very complicated inflammatory processes later in life --- so-called "SECOND HITS."

​Predictive biomarkers and initial analysis of maternal immune alterations in postpartum preeclampsia reveal an immune-driven pathology (2024)

Maternal immune response during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental outcomes: A longitudinal approach (2024)