Posted on 02/08/2009 7:53:58 AM PST by jalisco555
Not to mention better access to health care services.
American vaccines no longer contain Thimerosal with the exception of the flu vaccine which contains trace amounts.
Don’t forget the Daminozide, i.e. Alar apple scare of the 80s.
I will not get into the debate about what the studies say or do not say. I am not a doctor or a scientist. What I CAN say is that I have two little boys that developed 100% normally....until they got their first flu shot. Very suddenly they began having severe developmental issues. There is NO autism in either side of the family going back 5 generations in their father’s family and NO autism in my family going back at least 7 generations, yet I have two little boys with moderate to severe autism. Maybe a coincidence but I highly doubt it.
I think the Cornell study that linked autism with a big rise in TV viewing has some merit.
The growing brain can be over-stimulated and that can result in autism.
I spent my childhood in the jungles of SA, we had no TV and I never saw a single child who was autistic.
http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/waldman/autpaper.html
My mind is made up.
Don’t bother me with facts.
Facts are only for people who think.
This is why we don’t know what’s true and what’s not.
Yes.
DDT (”Silent Spring”)
Population “control” (”The Population Bomb).
Nuclear power generation (”The China Syndrome”).
Alar apple scare of the 80s (conpiracy of the clueless Left).
Global Warming (another conpiracy of the clueless Left).
That is the magic of the Drive by Media. Nobody is ever held responsible for the mess left behind after they reek havoc with the Obama worshiping, Oprah loving, give me my gubmint cheese masses.
We make vaccinations with sixty-yr-old technology because the pharms don't like to invest in them...because of the lawyers who promote crackpot dogma so they can cash in.
This physician (along with Don Imus’s wife) should be charged with manslaughter in the deaths of children who died from measles — in any cases where it can be shown that the children’s parents were persuaded by the doctor’s (and Mrs. Imus’s) phony data not to have the children vaccinated.
>> In the same period in which the US stopped using it, the US autism instance went down, the UKs did not <<
Please cite a reliable, primary scientific source for this statement.
You have mail
“Not only that. It shows how the media took a single scary report, created an entire movement around it, and the scientific community completely failed to discover or correct it.”
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Sound familiar? Global warming/climate control and the economic crises quickly come to mind.
Problem - reaction - solution.
Thesis - antithesis - synthesis.
“All five of my sons could be diagnosed as autism spectrum under the criteria our local school system uses. Theyre peculiar, and sometimes annoying.”
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This gets us into a slightly different issue, but perhaps the liberal “redefining” and corralling of boys has played a role in the “diagnosis.”
Our oldest son, my husband, his father, and likely his father before him are (were) Asperberger’s. One of our daughters who is a teachers says this: that neither autistics nor aspberger’s do well with relationships. The difference is that the apsberger WANTS to but does not natrually know how, but the autistic just doesn’t care. I am not convinced they should be lumped with autism, and from what I understand, neither do many “experts”. I do not think it is an autoimmune, it is just they way they are “wired”. If you look through history, knowing the characterists of asperbergers, you can see many example of highly successful people who likely were Aspbergers. They have a drive and a focus that is really unpararelled.
Take heart though, the Asperberger learns to live with it and adjust. My guys seem to do it with a series of complicated “rules” that they have devised on how to get along. Different than the rest of us, yes, but it works for them. I am not sure they really realize they are different, which has been good because it has forced them to adjust. After all, their fathers were the same, so as any young boy and young man, their father is their role model. Just remember that they just function within a set of rules. Once you know those rules, or can explain life to them in “rules”, then they adjust very well.
I did not know my husband when he was young, but watching our oldest, yes, it was debilitating when he was in school. It was not fun, not for him, not for me to watch. And from what I understand, the same with my husband. But, he has grown through it, and putting his trust in the Lord has made all the difference.
Funny, people who know them and can get past their pecularities admire their character as outstanding. And a more loyal person you cannot find in someone without Aspergers. Conversely, once you are disloyal to them, which they cannot comprehend, then you are toast!
Take heart concerning those in your family that are Asperbergers. Although they are often “quirky”, they have many personality traits that we can’t easily attain.
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