Something is causing the rise in autism. Why is not the CDC on that problem? It is a horrible public health issue.
I had contact lenses years ago, and the rinse/storage solution had thimerisol in it as a preservative. It made my corneas turn hright red. My ophthamologist said to never get anything with mercury in it, and to check everything I used even OTC, because of the allergic reaction. Interestingly, I did have mercury amalgam fillings as a child...
Perhaps there is no rise. Perhaps what we are seeing is increased reporting and diagnostics as the ‘spectrum’ is ever expanded. Be cautious about what you think is causality
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I wish you could walk in our shoes. We have a beautiful — and I mean beautiful son who was born in 2001. He was chubby, blonde, blue-eyed, radically gorgeous and healthy —until he took the MMR shot at 12 months. After that, he began to have large, black, hard baseball-sized stools he couldn’t pass. He never slept. He’d scream all night, wouldn’t sleep. From then on he failed to develop normally, play normally. At 4 he was diagnosed w/ PPD-NOS, a diagnosis which has been scrapped and is now just designated as as “high functioning autism.”
I just want to know what exactly turns a perfectly healthy and intelligent child into a stimming, speech delayed, tantrumming neurologically affected MESS in less than a year? What disease? What virus? What process DOES this to a child??
Why won’t pediatricians investigate this more? Why was I called “crazy” by a pediatrician when I went to her and told her the kid wouldn’t sleep more than 2 hours a night and had these GI problems. They wouldn’t LISTEN.
So many families are affected.. In our case, we are still paying off the debt we incurred from having to pay out of pocket for the years of ABA therapy and speech he required, and STILL requires.
He does relatively well now, but he’s never going to be normal. He’ll never participate in life the way my older children do. I mean — something is altering these children. If I EVER find that someone in our government lied and that these vaccines really ARE the culprit ... well, you’ll see me in the going POSTAL on their a^^%$es.
Right now all MY family can do is wait for the day we’re ALL in heaven and ALL rid of the evil and sickness of this world. At that point, we’ll meet our son again, and he’ll be healthy and whole again — and perhaps he’ll fulfill his true potential — but he’ll never do it here. Someone or something has seen to that.
“Something is causing the rise in autism.”
Diagnosis. I have Aspergers but it was not diagnosed in the 60’s because it didn’t “exist”. It really only came into the spotlight in the late 80’s.
Funny, my wife is a teacher in a preschool and she spots autism spectrum by seeing if the kid acts like me.
The “rise” is caused by expansion of the definition. Most of the categories within the autism spectrum have only been created in the last 10 to 20 years. Any kid with those problems before then weren’t considered autistic. There’s a whole lot of illnesses that have been “rising” that way since the 80s, pretty much everybody has a syndrome these days, because almost everything that deviates even slightly from the norm now has a label.
The problem is that autism as a diagnosis is deliberately broad. It can be a catch all for a LOT of diseases.