I have a autistic daughter. Did alot of reading on possible causes for autism. If autism is just a natural genetic problem that was misdiagnosted in the past, then historical retarded kid rate should be at 1 per 150 (assuming autistic kids are lumped together with retarded kids). Our current combined rate of retarded with autistic kids per 1000 kids is much higher than past historical data. We are doing something in the modern life style that is triggering autism in kids who are prone to it that did not happen in the past. IMHO it is the preschool vaccines. It is not the mercury preservative, but in my opinion it may be the large numbers of vaccines givened to the child in such a short period of time and there are possible drugn interaction of side effects with a young child’s body which is undergoing rapid development (especially the brain). We are looking at up to 16 vaccines before the child enters Kindergarten and the states are still adding more required vaccines to the list. When I went to school over 40 years ago, I was givened only 7 shots for school admission. This theory comes from a new theory on the Gulf War Syndrome that struck our soldiers in the first Iraqi war. Soldiers were developing many symptoms that could not be narrowed down to one particular cause, however some military doctors are wondering if the huge multitudes of vaccines givened to the soldier in one day before deployment can be the cause (side affects interacting with side affects). I would like to see a state do an experiment and spread the vaccine schedule out or start eliminating vaccines against nonlethal child diseases and track the autism rate in the state.
“We are doing something in the modern life style that is triggering autism in kids who are prone to it that did not happen in the past”
I tend to agree with you on that point. Admittedly, I haven’t read up on the increasing number of vaccinations given at earlier ages, so I can’t comment, but certainly you could be right. Lifestyles have completely changed in the past 40 years and have become increasingly unhealthy for numerous reasons. An increasingly sterile and enclosed environment is setting us up for a big fall, I fear.
My daughter was telling me that she had heard information about the dosage size of the vaccinations given, and that in some if not all cases the dosage is the same no matter what the weight/age of the child.
...This theory comes from a new theory on the Gulf War Syndrome that struck our soldiers in the first Iraqi war. Soldiers were developing many symptoms that could not be narrowed down to one particular cause, however some military doctors are wondering if the huge multitudes of vaccines givened to the soldier in one day before deployment can be the cause...
You make some interesting points.
Having one's first child at ages 38 to 45 is one thing that seems strongly correlated with autism (and many other innate disorders) and also is contemporaneous with the rise in autism stats (1970s-80s on).
The vaccinations that the scientifically unlettered tend to blame for this were given to the parents of the autistic kids when they were kids, without any such effect.
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