<story><title>“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)</title><url>https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WillPostForFood</author><text>My hot take: a bunch of shitty gluten free food products have displaced better, cheaper, quality food. The people who think they are gluten intolerant are worse off, the people who are gluten tolerant are worse off, and the .5% of actual celiac sufferers are better off.</text></item><item><author>ok_dad</author><text>My opinion as an autistic person is the more people who think they’re autistic the better, it’ll normalize it and we’ll all have better lives. Look at the old chestnut: gluten. Now, because everyone thinks they have a gluten allergy, people who actually have them can eat so much more good food. That’s my hot take for today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BadCookie</author><text>I mistakenly thought that I was better off not eating gluten because I felt much better after going gluten free. I am now fairly sure that the real benefit I experienced came from reducing my sugar intake. Cutting out gluten tends to cut out sugar in tandem: breakfast cereal, cookies, cake, and so on. I wonder if this explains why so many people who aren’t celiac think they see a big benefit from a gluten-free diet. Lots of Americans are flirting with diabetes if they aren’t already diabetic. (And lots of sugar isn’t great for a person even if they are completely healthy.)</text></comment>
<story><title>“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)</title><url>https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WillPostForFood</author><text>My hot take: a bunch of shitty gluten free food products have displaced better, cheaper, quality food. The people who think they are gluten intolerant are worse off, the people who are gluten tolerant are worse off, and the .5% of actual celiac sufferers are better off.</text></item><item><author>ok_dad</author><text>My opinion as an autistic person is the more people who think they’re autistic the better, it’ll normalize it and we’ll all have better lives. Look at the old chestnut: gluten. Now, because everyone thinks they have a gluten allergy, people who actually have them can eat so much more good food. That’s my hot take for today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emodendroket</author><text>Nobody forces you to buy the gluten-free pasta or whatever, so I can&amp;#x27;t see how things are worse for the people who neither have nor believe themselves to have Celiac disease.</text></comment>