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What lefties apparently share with people diagnosed 'with' ADHD, autism-spectrum, bipolar disorder, dyslexia, schizophrenia, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis and ME/CFS is a probable (though not yet established) genetic susceptibility to brain-path rewiring in response to congenital brain inflammation as a result of elevated maternal cortisol levels, possibly caused by retroviruses (http://www.bing.com/search?q=neuro-immune+retrovirus&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IE8SRC) affecting the neuro-immune systems.

Obviously, no popular-press article is going to get into THAT whole controversial can of worms with any degree of accuracy or objectivity. There's currently a huge fight (http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2011/11/xmrv-researcher-sued-jailed/) going on about it in the scientific community, but unfortunately, the matter is so complex that only scientists capable of replicating the experiments are entitled to hold any opinions about it.

Not that that's going to stop reporters, or people with Dunning-Kruger syndrome: they'll just pick the scientist they like best, then form teams around them to gossip, gas, and insult each other (as you can see in the comments to that article.) None of them are going to delve into the subject of how we're going to to determine which specific genetic markers indicate which specific kinds of susceptibilities and/or adaptations to which specific types of prenatal environmental stressors, because they'd be over their heads before they finished the first paragraph, and would have lost their readers even before that. The general populace has no slightest interest in cortisol and cytokine levels (http://www.bing.com/search?q=cortisol+cytokines&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IE8SRC) or any of that 'egghead' stuff, and won't even attempt to read about it.

Bottom line: current research indicates that if you're odd in one way, you're likely to be odd in other ways too, which means you're more susceptible to be bullied, marginalized, diagnosed, drugged and stigmatized by the Normal People in this society, and also more susceptible to developing several kinds of extremely painful and debilitating neuromuscular diseases that many doctors still believe to be psychosomatic attention-getting ploys.