[stanne]

Growing up in suburbia in the baby boom era where we kids had run of the neighborhood and of town easily i can say there not only wa there no autism but that now, having raised my kids in the military, wher, again, there are a lot of kids every third family has a boy with autism. Including in my own extended family and in laws

As a registered nurs with a BSN i not only have done research but can skim this Mayo Clinic piece and call BS

the Mayo Clinic needs pharmaceutical and medical industry money and favor like any other half assed health care conglomerate who are sick care and not health care

Autism is an environmental epidemic

Multiple Vaccines taken together might not cause it but is a practice which is at least senseless and uneccessary

Fetal ultrasounds are completely unnecessary and must be looked st as causative

Rampant use of antibiotics

Lack of breast feeding as causative for ear infections has already been cited

The use of plastics, which is new since the 1960s microwaves. Microwaving plastics

And mothers being gone for well over 70% of the childs awake life. How stupid is that? Can’t be helpful

[proxy_user]

There was also little television and no computers. Babies and toddlers did not stare at screens for hours.

[wally_bert]

I was born in 71 and have lived with a list of problems that no one I’m related to has. My younger sister fared far better than me.

At times I really wonder.....

[Neoliberalnot]

Your biggest risk of environmental pollutants by a thousand fold comes through the air you breath particularly if you live in a major urban area. You are entitled to call BS on anything, but that doesn’t make it so. When you took exams you missed a lot of questions by giving incorrect answers, didn’t you?

[MD Expat in PA]

Fetal ultrasounds are completely unnecessary and must be looked st as causative

Any proof for that claim?

[hopespringseternal]

And mothers being gone for well over 70% of the child's awake life.

May not be the out and out cause, but probably results in symptoms being far worse. A good mother interacts with her child in the first couple of years in a way that no one else will ever do.

[exDemMom]

Multiple Vaccines taken together might not cause it but is a practice which is at least senseless and uneccessary

If you really are a registered nurse, as you claim, then you know that the quantity of antigens that a child receives in vaccinations, even if they get several together in one visit to the vaccine clinic, is nothing next to the quantity of antigens that they are exposed to on a daily basis.

A few dozen antigens from vaccines.

A few hundred thousand antigens from crawling around on the floor all day and then sticking those dirty little fingers into the mouth. Or from sticking anything that fits in the baby's hand into the mouth.

There is no evidence that immune responses cause autism. If they did, then the rates of autism would be several orders of magnitude higher than what we actually see.