Posted on 12/17/2017 4:39:27 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
Autism spectrum disorder has no single known cause. Given the complexity of the disorder, and the fact that symptoms and severity vary, there are probably many causes. Both genetics and environment may play a role.
Genetics. Several different genes appear to be involved in autism spectrum disorder. For some children, autism spectrum disorder can be associated with a genetic disorder, such as Rett syndrome or fragile X syndrome. For other children, genetic changes (mutations) may increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder. Still other genes may affect brain development or the way that brain cells communicate, or they may determine the severity of symptoms. Some genetic mutations seem to be inherited, while others occur spontaneously. Environmental factors. Researchers are currently exploring whether factors such as viral infections, medications or complications during pregnancy, or air pollutants play a role in triggering autism spectrum disorder.
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But that wasn't her first pregnancy. The body becomes like an athlete, conditioned to the purposes for which it is frequently used. There are reams we don't know about women's reproductive health. Today, women start later and have fewer, and there are more suboptimum children because of earlier or more radical medical interventions.
my primary characteristics when I have dementia.””
People who do taxes are immortal, so, not to worry. How much would you charge me to do mine? IRS refused to accept a return from me for almost 3 years after someone filed a fraudulent return using my personal information. How did that happen?
When you say “touch the stored memory”, are you talking about a brain probe, about deep tissue massage or about talking therapy?
WIRED magazine has run a series of articles on geeks & nerds having autistic kids
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wired+magazine+autism&t=osx&ia=web
There is little to be gained discussing science with an illiterate. Common knowledge requires no citation.
I don't know, but we had to paper file for several years after someone else used the Social Security number of one of our daughters. They probably just chose the digits at random and happened to hit on it.
I was a specialist in state and local corporate taxes, so I'm no help on individual returns. Have you bought an H&R Block program.
Huh. Maybe Sharon read about it there. Her husband is a programmer. He’s more awkward than my husband, who is an electrical engineer, but more comprehensible than Carole’s husband, who is a mathematician. And also British.
As described in post 201 and the last paragraph of post 195, one can't compare the pregnancy and birth of a 12th child delivered at 40 to an experienced woman against the first and only chlld born to a woman of 40 whose body had not been "primed" by previous pregnancies.
We also cannot compare today's intrusive record-keeping by government of births and health of infants to the conditions of children in the frontier environment, where a severely disabled child unable to work could be killed and buried on the family farm and no one would know what really happened but the parent(s).
I used turbo tax for a decade or more then drew an audit. Th stress of such an ordeal for months in anticipation of what IRS would claim caused too many sleepless nights. Having read that hiring a CPA to do our taxes would reduce our likelihood of another audit made us change our approach. It also added another $600 dollar annual expense to pay for it, but we haven’t been audited for a dozen years, however we had the fraudulent return filed in our name. By the way, the audit found nothing wrong—we didn’t owe another dime.
There is much we will probably never learn, because there are too few women available with naturally-functioning (well or poorly) reproductive systems to be studied.
Having an intermediary does reduce the anxiety! My mother is almost 80, but she still does a few individual returns for clients with longevity.
The old European tales of "changelings" attempted to justify infanticide. The good child was taken by the fairies and a sickly imp child was left in his stead. The death of the unwanted imp child could thus be justified.
The cruelty to which suspected changelings are subjected in folktales makes it clear why the perpetrators of this harsh treatment sought the symbolic approval of their community. In the Grimms' accounts alone, we learn of changelings being thrown into water, beaten severely with a switch, left unfed and crying in an open field, or placed on a hot stove. This list of ordeals can easily be expanded by consulting other changeling tales from throughout northern Europe. There is ample evidence that these legendary accounts do not misrepresent or exaggerate the actual abuse of suspected changelings. Court records between about 1850 and 1900 in Germany, Scandinavia, Great Britain, and Ireland reveal numerous proceedings against defendants accused of torturing and murdering suspected changelings. {footnote 13} Similar incidents were undoubtedly even more common in earlier centuries, but prior to the mid nineteenth century, public opinion, religious attitudes, and legal indifference made it unlikely that such cases would be prosecuted. The court records of Gotland, Sweden, for 1690 document one of the rare exceptions. A man and woman were placed on trial for having left a ten-year-old "changeling" -- a sickly child who was not growing properly -- on a manure pile overnight on Christmas Eve, hoping that the elves who had made the exchange some years earlier would now return their rightful son. The child died of exposure. {footnote 14} Without doubt many similar cases went unprosecuted and unrecorded. Folklore sources suggest that such fatal abuse of malformed children was not unusual.
Methylation is a process whereby the DNA is chemically altered in a way that does not change the sequence. It changes the expression of genes, which, in most cases, causes different amounts of specific proteins to be produced in the cell.
The C677T mutation in the MTHFR (methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase) gene that JonPreston mentioned in post 37, would cause people to have difficulty processing folic acid. It has a small association with neural tube defects in developing babies. It also is a risk factor in certain cardiovascular conditions.
It has nothing to do with vaccines.
Wrong. The liver is vital to ridding the body of toxins. And methylation, which is controlled by several enzymes, is completely essential to all body functions.
No. Vaccines are made with viruses and bacteria that can cause disease.
Some vaccines are grown in cell lines that were established from aborted babies back in the 1970s. Although the cell lines were derived from aborted babies, they physically contain nothing of the baby now. To paraphrase the old saying, "You are what you eat," those cells are physically made from synthetic cell culture media and fetal calf serum.
I've found that no one actually cares about the thousands of fetal calves that are killed for growing cells, and no one cares about the fetal chickens that are killed to make flu vaccines.
Vaccine researchers are aware that many people have moral issues with using cells that descended from a baby that was aborted decades ago, and they are using alternative cells to develop current vaccines. Dog kidney cells have been used successfully, as have some other cells. The thing is, a pharmaceutical company cannot simply change which cells they are using to grow the viruses for vaccines. Any such change requires years of research to establish that the vaccine produced is equivalent to the one on the market. It's not a trivial task.
Of course the liver is vital, who said otherwise? Methylation is required for effective detoxification. Our livers use methylation to convert toxins into water-soluble compounds so they can be excreted.
Not necessarily. The child may end up with lifelong problems because he or she survived a bout of a vaccine-preventable disease. They can become brain damaged. Their hearts can be damaged. Etc. Some diseases, like chickenpox, are never eradicated from the body, but remain hidden, like time bombs, waiting for the right conditions to emerge and cause disease again.
I found Alice Miller's books a great revelation concerning the effects of negative maternal behaviors on children, especially highly intelligent children, but to ascrible all cases of autism to psychogenic causes is overreach. In fact, since the statement above was not authored by Miller, I wonder if she actually believed it went that far.
Almost 90 thousand people worldwide died from measles last year. Just because you do not personally know someone who died from a disease does not mean that people don't die from it.
Before widespread measles vaccination, nearly 3 million people died of it every year.
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