In my mother's name: Scientists find out what causes autism in children

Autism can be a disorder taken during pregnancy and caused by high estrogen levels in the womb, a new study has suggested.

Scientists believe that estrogen affects brain growth in fetus, but eventually it is not quite clear whether these increased hormones come from mother, baby, or placenta.

The National Autism Society defines autism as a long, developing disability that affects the way one person communicates and connects with other people and experiences the world around them.

It's not a disease but a spectrum disorder. Because of the nature of this disorder, people of autism experience all kinds of experiences.

As part of the new study, scientists tested amniotic fluid from 98 people, with samples from Danish biobanks that had such samples from 100,000 pregnancies. All four estrogens were very high in fetuses that later developed autism compared with 177 fetuses that had not done so.

The testosterone was previously thought to be linked to autism, but scientists say that estrogen has an even stronger connection.

“These new findings support the idea that the steroid hormones of pre-natal sex are among the potential causes for that situation,” said chief inventor Simon Baron-Chen. /Periscope