The boy who has been on TV for having scored all the three pointers in a basketball game certainly doesn't fit the description of the autistic boy we know.
Truly autistic children do not interact with others, they don't make eye contact, and they don't attend school, basketball games, nor play in them.
With the addition of the learning disabled, the retarded, and other disabilities added to the category of autistic there's no way to know the truth.
Personally, I do blame the vaccines which are now given before the baby leaves the hospital, overwhelming their immune system.
I thought there was a previous study that found no link. I would truly like to know the unbiased truth. It's beginning to take on the qualities of global warming. Seriously, with all of the medical advances, shouldn't it be easy to get a better handle on this.
That type of behavior is not autism and is not what parents see when their kids go from interactive to withdrawn around 18 months to 24 months. But it is easier to tell a parent autistic rather than emotionally disturbed. This type of labeling is fueling the explosion of autistic numbers.
We fought to not have our babies immunized in the hospital. They didn't get anything until they were a month old. It doesn't seem like much, but it does make a difference. We also refused Prevnar. Of course, we had to sign some paperwork saying it was offered and we declined. Fortunately, our pediatrician doesn't force.
I saw the basketball boy, and I do not believe that he has autism in the true diagnosis, and my understanding of it.
Does anyone know which vaccines had the mercury preservative removed and when? I would like to see the timetable on that...
>>Truly autistic children do not interact with others,
>>they don't make eye contact, and they don't attend
>>school, basketball games, nor play in them.
Allow me to say you have no idea what you are talking about.
>>With the addition of the learning disabled, the
>>retarded, and other disabilities added to the category
>>of autistic there's no way to know the truth.
My son is intelligent, physically perfect (normal) was diagnosed as autistic when he was three. He started as a nonverbal, non-interacting Autistic. We hired a speech therapist who specializes in Autism. She worked with him for six months before he started school. He has come a long way since he was diagnosed. We have had him in a special school for four years (which cost over a thousand dollars a month 12 months a year). I took extra jobs, got up a 6 AM. For four years to drive him up to the school, my wife stayed home, volunteered at the school so she could learn the techniques and we could apply them at home.
My son now talks up a storm about videos that are coming out, or his game boy. He still has issues, but it takes most people about a half an hour to figure out what is wrong. He will be able to play sports, and he will continue to improve. To say there is not help and no hope is a cruel, and ignorant statement.
Prod dad of an autistic son.