Rates of autism have skyrocketed 1000% since 1990 - Vaccines?

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[Scythian]

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Vaccines cause autism: Supporting evidence
October 6 - Rates of autism have skyrocketed 1000% since 1990, yet defenders of vaccines and the pharmaceutical industry keep scratching their heads in confusion: What could be causing this? Lots of clues point to vaccines...

Autism rates double in children as vaccines poison an entire generation
According to a U.S. government survey just published, rates of autism in children have doubled since 2003. Today, an estimated 1 in 91 children are being diagnosed with autism ...

[Just mythoughts]

I have no clue what actually is true. I know a child that has been ‘diagnosed’ as being/having autism. What I do know about this child was that until he got a series of vaccines around the age of two, he was a happy, friendly, and out going child. Something changed dramatically which coincided when he got the ‘cocktail’ of vaccines. It was not until years later and ‘testing’ he was ‘diagnosed’ as having autism.

I have experienced ‘pill’ time for boys at school for those diagnosed as having some sort of disorder over the past 20 plus years. Field trips were a nightmare until those boys got their magic pills.

Oh strangely this boy I mentioned above, a few years back, was diagnoised as having Type I diabetes and nearly died because he was misdiagnosed as having the ‘flu’. This boy since whatever ‘changed’ in him around the age of two would not eat anything or drink anything if it was not a particular brand or specific food. The strange part of this is that because of his ‘food and drink’ specifications his diabetes has been ‘easier’ to control, if there is such a thing as easy about diabetes.

Again I have NO clue what the truth is but I do get really turned offfffff by anyone claiming statistics point to truth. No two human beings are totally and completely alike and the numbers over time are not individually represented.

[jch10]

I question your genetics statement only because nobody had autism when I was growing up and I knew no children diagnosed with it in the 30 years I taught school. I have been retired for 10 years.....where were these autistic children if it is genetic?

[Canedawg]

A school with 400 kids is a small sample.

In the large, blue cities, which overwhelmingly supported Zero in the election, a significant portion of kids with IEPs have behavioral problems as a result of coming from broken homes, growing up in bad neighborhoods, and being around gangs and drug users. They dont really have legitimate learning disabilities, but they become Special Ed students anyway.

It is in these blue cities where people are urged to get their kids IEPs whether they ae legit or not. In NYC, there are organizations who ADVERTISE for people to become Special Ed students and join their class action lawsuits against the Board of Ed. It’s a big scam in many places, though perhaps not in your neck of the woods.

[concerned about politics]

Mostly boys......It's the stress level in the mother while carrying the child. Mothers under high stress manufacture more testosterone than normal. That testosterone overdoses the male child in the womb. The excess testosterone damages the lower left side of the male child's brain.
Infants in the womb, being remarkable creatures, compensate by growing a stronger right brain to make up for the loss. That's why these children, once born, are extremely weak in one area but are genius in another. The amount of damage determines the level of their disability.
The liberals convinced mommy that she was a slave by being a stay home mom. They told her if she became independent by getting her own job, she'd be free. Today, woman are raising their children alone and working two jobs instead of one. They're more imprisoned now than they've ever been.

I believe if the government were to report this, the tax revenues going to Washington would plummet. Liberalism would take a huge hit, because the children would once again be raised by their own mothers. Expectant mothers would think twice about what direction they want their lives to go. Don't expect this info to hit the media any time soon.

[montag813]

I’m with Michael Savage on this one: diagnoses are up because the Austistic “Spectrum” just keeps getting bigger and bigger. It is now an industry unto itself, and sadly many parents are letting themselves be used by quacks in order to give a medical excuse for behavioral problems that parents have had to deal with—principally from boys—since time immemorial.

[steve8714]

The problem is that real autism is being dragged into “autism spectrum syndrome”. My cousin’s son was diagnosed with Asperger’s. I consider him normal if a bit anti-social. Profound autism is rare, unless we define it very broadly. The Autism epidemic is like the obesity epidemic- caused by changing definitions.

[CodeToad]

Nope. Every mental health clerk, clinician, technician, doctor, etc. wants to declare everyone mentally instable. They are a hammer and everyone looks like a nail.

If a child, with no discipline administered by the parents or teachers, doesn’t sit perfectly still like a sculpture and listen and absorb every word and perform flawlessly like a robot, they are autistic.

Children naturally have energy. They want to play, to move, to exercise. That is now defined as autism.

Kids, with these tract home suburbs have no place to play. They are run around like little adults so they get little sleep and are constantly cranky. They receive little or no discipline so they fail to understand how to behave. That is now considered autism.

Parents LOVE to brag that their child has autism and is prescribed drugs because they get attention for it. I have heard one parents after another brag to another in boo-hoo poor-me fashion that their child has problems and takes drugs. The go on and on about their life with such as child. It gives them what they think is a right to do the usual bragging about their child. Others listen attentively and give them sympathy.

Parent with truly autistic children, Asperger’s syndrome especially, know this isn’t something to use in a self centered fashion for public attention. It is a seriously problem that causes serious problems. Many autistic children die young. Parents are known to sleep with the child as they wake screaming. The drugs are rarely completely effective. The problem can spiral out of control, requiring institutionalization of the child. Yet, we hear figures thrown out such as 1 in 5 children are autistic, or that it is the school’s policy to ensure all children that “need be” are medicated. It is beyond sickening.

[Lizavetta]

You said it, Moonman.

[TChris]

Yeah, it's the vaccines. Because we just started vaccinating children in 1990.

Oh... wait...

nevermind.

[usmom]

I do not want my 14 year old son’s body to be trained to defend itself against swine flu. Nor will I allow that training in my body either.

I take it you will be one of the sheep lining up for your dose of untested poison because the government says it’s good for you. I’ll do you one better- you can have my dose, my husband’s dose and our three kids’ doses, too, since we will not be allowing that filth anywhere near our bodies. We will continue to be strong, happy and healthy while our vaccine-taking friends continue to run to the doctor every month and wonder why they feel terrible and catch every ‘bug’ that comes down the pike.

[algernonpj]

Read about Temple Grandin whose parents in 1950 were told she should be institutionalized.

She was able to create a life and career for herself because of her mother (who refused to institutionalize her and had a knack of distinguishing between acting out and just plain being overwhelmed) and mentors who took a special interest in her.

[ladyjane]

Older parents are more likely to have lots and lots of ultrasound tests too. Some doctors have them done at least once a month.

[Scythian]

I agree that they certainly call almost any behavior these days as autism ...

[slowhandluke]

Talk to the long-time pre-school and grade school teachers. It isn’t just the money, something has changed.

[TexasAg]

Yeah, it's the vaccines. Because we just started vaccinating children in 1990.
Oh... wait...
nevermind.

Not to mention that California stopped using mercury in vaccines in 2001 and the autism rate continued to increase. That should have sealed the "thimerosal causes autism" debate right there.

[Incorrigible]

And money for research and disability claims.

Yours is the most correct assessment of the situation.

As the father of a profoundly Autistic 11 year old boy, I can assure everyone it is not lack of disipline or desire to extract money from the school district that made him that way.

However, years ago when I joined a couple of national Autism advocation organizations, the number affected was one in 500. I thought then that was a little high but I do remember discussions with other members regarding the amount of government research grants that went to AIDS, arguably a preventable condition, versus research dollars directed towards Autism, with much more mysterious causes and solutions.

Thus was born the incentive to inflate the numbers of affected in order to get a bigger piece of the research pie.

Those with an Engineering education make up less than 1% of the population of the US. This latest statistic would not only make every Engineer (I r 1) Autistic, but every mathamatician and scientist as well.

One could argue that such a statistical process would benefit my son. I argue the opposite. People may think my son will grow out of it or run a major software company someday because Autism has been classified so broadly. But the reality is he will be living at home with my wife and I until we ourselves are deceased.

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[r9etb]

Vaccines? No. If that were the case, Autism would have begun "skyrocketing" beginning 90 years ago.

Some folks have a bug up their asses about vaccines ... they have the luxury of having forgotten that a lot of people died from a lot of preventable diseases, back in the days before vaccines.

[Kenny]

I have to wonder if it doesn’t have something to do with the lead these kids ingest from Chinese toys. They don’t get symptomatic until after toddler chewing phase. I wonder how the increases line up with imported toys, blankets, teethers, etc.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Interesting article, thanks.

[snarkybob]

“There are any number of kids who could use help but don’t get it because schools are overwhelmed with the IEP’s they do have.”

Amen.
There seem to be some here who think Autism is a cash cow for the school districts.
As the parent of a 15 year old son who is non verbal and non potty trained, I can tell you from experience that our school didn’t rush to embrace my sons IEP (this included speech therapy, and a 1 on 1 aide) We were told that the school simply didn’t have the funds to provide the services.
Fortunately my wife is an attorney who specializes in education law, and after pointing out that they were mandated to provide the services we had no more problems.

For us suing the school was never an option, we just wanted his IEP implemented.