Jerry Schwartz wrote it for Jane Kelley to answer..
  How about this one....
 
 RF>> I'm sure parents with children born with FAS appreciate their children
 RF>> called "mutant".  Give me a break.  You are looking at children as some
 RF>> kind of "alien".
 
 JK> Lady, I don't particualarly give a tinkers dam if they appreciate it or
 JK> not.  The blunt truth is that FAS is usually the result of ingestion of
 JK> alcohol by a pregnant woman.  Period. And that causes the problems the
 JK> child encounters after it is born.
 JS> I've never read that FAS was caused by alcohol-induced mutations; I
 JS> was under the impression that it was caused by alcohol-induced
 JS> developmental problems. 
Well, Jane seems to think that the genetic material is also damaged.
I don't believe that is the case either.  So what does FAS have to
do with AD(H)D.  Has NIMH changed it's position on the causes of
AD(H)D from their published position.
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