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Interesting. I don't know very much about Autism, but my mom works in a special education classroom, so she's seen a lot of autism. I don't even remember going to school with anyone who was autistic, and we're talking, only like 15 years ago. Now each school district has an entire class of students with autism. How is this happening?
A lot of people are speculating it is caused by vaccines, which makes sense except that forty years ago vaccines were stronger, and there were fewer cases of autism. My mom works with a pediatrician who believes it is because of pollution. He has been quoted in a few books regarding the use of certain minerals to "detox" the body from the affects of pollution. I'm always skeptical of such things and refer to my mother as "Dr. Quinn," but my brother who is 23 and has a lot of learning disabilities, has been taking these minerals for about two months. The guy has always spelled like a five year old despite how many special ed classes and innovative teaching techniques he's been subjected to, but his spelling has vastly improved since taking these minerals. He also says his thought processes feel clearer and not so disjointed.
Like I said, don't know much about any of this, but autism does seem to be almost a new epidemic.
But the thing is, thirty years ago, you had 8 shots, now you have like 24. And in CA it's illegal to send your kids to school without the shots, including the chicken pox vaccine, which was only approved like ten years ago.
I don't know if it's the shots, or not, and I do think the increase in "geekdom" parenting could have something to do with it, which is why it's so high here in Silicon Valley, but I sure wish they'd find out. CA schools are bankrupt as it is!! They have to be willing to change something, and that's something the medical field is very reluctant about.
Yikes! That's a lot of vaccines. I guess things have changed a lot since I was a kid. I didn't even know until last year that there was a chicken pox vaccine. How can kids not have a chicken pox story to share? That's like a rite of passage in childhood.
I know vaccines have always freaked me out a little. How can it be good to put all those chemicals in our bodies? I know the potential of not having a vaccination can be even scarier, but it does have to make you wonder. My husband was just diagnosed with a rare auto immune disorder called Wegener's Granulomatosis and started chemo a week ago to put it into remission. The doctor keeps talking about what they're going to give him later after he's off the cytoxin (year, not good when the word "toxin" is in the name of the medicine you're taking). The doctor gets all reassuring, "it'll be good when we move him to this other drug because it's so much less toxic. Less toxic? Less toxic? Oh goody, I can hardly wait. But sometimes, that's just what you have to do. There are no other options for treatment with what he has, and fifty years ago before they were using chemo, everybody died. So I'm just grateful that they can do something. Still, I don't like that they're making his body well by pumping him full of toxic chemicals.
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