Screen Time for Children Under Three: A Trigger for Virtual Autism?

Screen Time for Children Under Three: A Trigger for Virtual Autism?

In 2017, if you googled the term “virtual autism,” you would get exactly two hits. One was my blog on Mad in America and the other was a paper (2017) by Romanian psychologist Dr. Marius Zamfir. Zamfir found that a high percentage of young children diagnosed with autism at a Romanian hospital had more than four hours per day of screen time before the age of two and a half. He found that removing screens reversed the symptoms of autism. Zamfir the…