Until the 1970s, autism spectrum disorder was thought to be caused by __________, or parents who were emotionally unresponsive to their infants

A) frigid parents
B) refrigerator mothers
C) emotionally repressed parents
D) schizophrenogenic mothers


Answer: B

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