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Eli-jay, my advice would be to NOT ever set foot in that practice again. And a week or two later is not sufficient time in my opinion for your child to recover. You dont have to have ANY shot right now. At this point, just take a break from vaccinating and do some more research. Go to vaxtruth.org or nvic.org and bone up on vaccines and your rights. In the meantime, if you can go to another local practice, maybe a family practice, natural minded practice or D.O., you may have better luck avoiding vaccines. That way, you can get medical care without the pressure. Maybe someone else can chime in on what to do legally about the doctor's lie.
As for your kids, I highly recommend going to tacanow.org (autism), wellnessmama.com or westonaprice.org in order to get information on how to heal your child and boost the immune system. I am so sorry you experienced this. My thoughts and prayers are with you!
A Letter on How To Educate Your Pediatrician on the Ramifications of the CDC Whistleblower on His/Her Practice
We invite you to share this letter with your pediatrian, who is probably unaware of the OGI complaint regarding the CDC vaccine whistleblower. Thank you to Autism Media Channel for sharing. On October 14, 2014, a complaint was filed with the Office of Research Integrity and the relevant auth...
There's a doctor by the name of Charles Dumont who is at the Raby Institute. His specialty is GI
The Case of Alex Spourdalakis: Continued Ineptitude at Loyola University Medical Center
By Lisa Goes On Sunday morning, Jeanna Reed of AIM (Autism is Medical) and I visited Dorothy and Alex Spourdalakis, who are now on their 21st day in the Loyola Healthcare System. (From left, Jenna, Godmother Agatha, Alex, Lisa). The restraints have been removed and replaced with a nameless ...
Yes, Julie, and yes, Sarah! I agree with both of you. And I get so angry when even others who are close to my daughter say things like, "She is happy, though, a content child." And I just want to scream that she may seem happy because she is trapped in her own world. Yes, she is happier than most Autie kids, but she was already fighting for a "normal" life with her Down Syndrome. And then to add Autism on top of that just makes me so angry! Our kids are just treated like throwaways. They're just "retarded" anyway, right? Why bother?! Ugh!
OK, I'll shut up now. I just get so angry.
She’ll Have a Good Life
By Julie Obradovic “She’ll have a good life,” she said, reassuring me that everything was going to be okay. The emphasis was on the good, not in a way that stressed “awesome” “great” or “fantastic”, but in a way that expressed “satisfactory”, “acceptable”, or “decent”. It was meant to be helpfu...
LJ, you would have handed him his butt on a plate, lol! As far as having more knowledge than the docs, this is so true. The physician who last saw my child had been under the impression that kids with Down Syndrome had immune system issues because of the physical differences.....that he was unaware of any studies showing biochemistry issues. I was just flabbergasted! THAT right there is why kids with DS end up succombing to autism (18.2%,) because of the biochemistry! And they target our kids for all of the vaccines plus some extras supposedly to help them immune system wise. What a joke! They shouldn't go anywhere near a kid with DS if they don't even understand what an extra chromosome does!
The Illusion of Progress: Talk Show Autism
By L.J. Goes In late January I received an email asking me if I would have any interest in appearing on the Dr. Oz show that aired last week. Of course I jumped at the chance to tell Noah’s story and a phone call between me and one of their producers was arranged. Our conversation went some...
The others who mentioned that forgiveness is something we decide to do for ourselves to clean out the anger and bitterness, so the onus is on us, not on the offender. Having said that, I was just thinking this morning about how much damage has been done to my daughter. She was already cognitively delayed because of the Down Syndrome. How much of this delay is part of vaccine injury too? This thought opened a new bag of sadness that I didn't know I had. It's like the acceptance is there, then something happens and it starts all over again. Have I forgiven? No, not yet. I need to, but it's so hard. I will have to decide to do that at some point.......
Forgive and Forget?
By Cathy Jameson Forgiveness. It isn’t possible when negative emotions stick around and cloud my thoughts. Forgiveness. It can’t be doled out quickly when constant reminders of an offense surround me. Forgiveness. As many times as I’ve thought about how to come to terms with my reality...
I hope this Paul S. is not a person I know (it could be)....if so, gonna have to give the smackdown. Anyway, I agree with Annd Dachel. It's inflammation, it's an immune system that is messed up, and it's also pathogenic in nature. All combined to make one heap of a mess in a child's body.
Meet The Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs: MAPS
Mapping the way forward, with Dr. Dan Rossignol and Shannon Kenitz On the VoiceAmerica Health & Wellness Channel AutismOne: A Conversation of Hope< Tuesday, August 7, 12 noon Eastern/9 am Pacific Listen HERE MAPS: Mapping the way forward, with Dr. Dan Rossignol and Shannon Kenitz The Medica...
I would love a copy of this book. I bought one a while ago to give to a friend with a daughter with aspergers, but I would love to have one on hand to loan out to others:)
Win Dr. Martha Herbert's The Autism Revolution Whole Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be
We have contests frequently at Age of Autism. But this one is special. Dr. Martha Herbert, MD, who is an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a pediatric neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital has kindly given us a signed copy of her book The Autism Revolution W...
@Lurker, you need to understand something since you are so "into" needing services. The services people like you need are for higher functioning people. My child and many others like her have Down Syndrome and Autism. Not one child I know with the dual diagnosis is high functioning. At least with just DS, there is a good chance for school, for friends, for jobs, etc. For kids with the dual dx, it is almost guaranteed that it won't be the case. So while you may need some help, kids like mine (and the estimates are now anywhere from 18.2% to as much as 22% of the Down Syndrome population) will need MUCH, MUCH more. And it will be devastating if the rates increase in our population (and it is.)
The IACC (I Am Completely Clueless) Meets Again
By Dan Olmsted Bernadine Healy must be barfing in her grave. At least the former National Institutes of Health director, who told the self-evident truth that vaccines could not be ruled out as a cause of autism, because the research hadn’t been done, because the government didn’t want to do it,...
Not that I necessarily believe them, but they make a comment in this page about the 76% number being the amount of offices, not the amount of vaccines:
" Contrary to some news reports, the OIG did not find that 76% of all vaccine was stored improperly"
http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2012/s0607_children_vaccine.html
Having said that, I can't say that I believe them, lol!
The Truth About Vaccine Safety
By Katie Wright It is a mess. That’s the truth. Over and over again we see govt officials, the AAP and, especially, the CDC blame vaccine safety advocates for the lack of trust American families have in our infant and toddler immunization schedule. The CDC has repeatedly said that any parental ...
Aaaack! Have you been peeking in my house lately? I do the same thing, and it's not good. Thank you for taking me to task (even though you weren't talking directly to me!) Spot on for a lot of us, I think.
Self Discovery
By Cathy Jameson I’m reorganizing parts of my life. Wait. Didn’t I just do that a month ago? I think I did. I remember sitting at the dining room table with the family calendar, a notebook, stacks of bills, medical paperwork and a headache. I know I said to myself that I needed to get some...
Wait, but shouldn't she be made to only look out of the corners of her eyes? They should also have realistic poop that pops out of her diaper, which she then automatically smears wherever she is. oh yeah, and then she touches her face and hair with it. And if she's like my kid, she can be like the old baby dolls with a hole in her mouth for a bottle even though she's much older.
If this is successful, we can then do a dual diagnosis Barbie complete with Down Syndrome and Autism. So she not only looks like the Autism Barbie, but she also can come complete with orthotics and shorter limbs just to make it all interesting.....sigh!
Autism Barbie - She Rocks!
By Ken R. Schaper Fashion icon Barbie is going bald next year, in a special doll for children suffering from hair loss or who are watching a loved one go through the process. Mattel will include accessories to provide girls with a traditional fashion play experience. While certainly a welcom...
I don't believe for a second that my child has ruined my life. However I do get in that dark place often, especially since my one source of respite has not been able to help me. That is the one thing that helps to lift my life up. I have two special needs kids, and one doesn't sleep long enough. I have to choose between an hour of "me time" or one more hour of sleep to have an official night's sleep. That's the only free time I have, and I don't have any time for a hobby. I'm just too exhausted for that even if I did. Not to bitch about it, but this is the part that separates having a life from an existence. I think the difference lies in how much help you can have. Having said all of this, I still try to lift myself up during the day and also try to see the positive in life. It's just hard right now to do so. But I will never give up. God put me here for a reason, and He wants me to heal my kids. So I have a job to do......I just keep praying for the right attitude and the rest and rejeuvenation that I need to cope with the day to day.
My Autistic Son has NOT Ruined my Life
By: Jamie Pacton My best friend is obsessed with tragic mom blogs. She spends way too much time in her work-from-home day reading sad stories about moms whose kids have terminal diseases, rare genetic conditions, and a host of other maladies that are really quite heartbreaking. I’m not quite...
Those of us with kiddos with the dual diagnosis of Down Syndrome and autism may be getting even scarier news. The 1999 estimate was anywhere from 5-10% of our DS population. Then I heard 18.2% last year at Autism One with Laurette Janak. Now a friend of mine has a child who is taking part in a study with a researcher studying Autism and Down Syndrome. Her estimate (and I want to see the hard data) is something to the effect of 33%!!!!! Almost one third of children with Down Syndrome also have Autism if she is correct. And our population tends to be lower functioning. Do you know what kind of supports OUR kids will need?!?! This is INSANE! And one of the big problems is that the DS community is behind in terms of the most recent treatments (and the lack of desire to support biomedical treatments) and the experts don't want to "put another label on these kids" like it's something unnecessary and too troubling for us. So the numbers of affected kids is astronomical and nobody wants to give the diagnosis that could get the needed extra treatments and funding through insurance. It is a crime and very discriminatory. With the right help, kids with DS can do so much, but it's like our kids with the dual dx are a hopeless cause, so why bother:(
How Long Will the Worst Cover-up in Health-Care History Go On?
By Anne Dachel The latest stunning autism numbers have officials scrambling for some sort of explanation to allay the growing fear out there that something really bad is happening to our kids. All the major newspapers and networks are working hard to downplay the one in 88/one in 54 bombshell....
I don't see this as a republican vs. democrat issue. I cannot speak to Keynesian philosophy. However I can say that government and pharma are in bed with each other. Each side is contributing to the problem and nobody is listening to the people anymore. That was my takeaway from all of this.
A Keynesian Look at Autism
By L.J. Goes "Von Mises. Now he was a true Austrian economist." Many an unsuspecting dinner guest have been treated to an impromptu lecture about economics by my beloved husband, Dave. Along with fast cars, Harleys and the White Sox, economics tops the list of my husband's most ardent passi...
Benedetta, it was the same man the author of this piece is talking about: Alan Zarembo. What a yutz!
LA Times Dog of an Autism Series: One Family's Exclusion
By Shannon Hunt March 2010 I rec'd email from a friend that asked it I would talk to LA Times reporter, Alan Zarembo. I then sent him an email and set up a time to meet with him at my home. The time that he was able to do the interview was during my younger sons ABA session and team meeting (a...
I emailed them with this letter:
Subject: Regarding your Series on Autism
Hello,
I have briefly scanned the first part of your series: Discovering Autism Epidemic of Disease or Discovery?
I have to admit that I am a bit disheartened from what I have read. It appears to me that the basic consensus of the article so far is that the increase in Autism is just a factor over better and earlier diagnosis, coupled with a more lax diagnostic criteria. I have to tell you that as a mother of an autistic child (coupled with Down Syndrome,) I know hundreds of mothers of autistic children. Many of them, if not most, fought to get any diagnosis, though it was evident that their children fit the criteria. I have a second child myself who has ASD characteristics, but none of the experts would diagnose her as autistic. So it is pretty insulting to insinuate that parents and schools are just diagnosing children willy nilly in order to get benefits. I DO know moms who have autistic children who refuse to get diagnoses, on the other hand, so that their kids don't get labelled and singled out. That DOES happen, and frequently.
As far as the genetic theory of autism, there may be a genetic susceptibility just like you can have a genetic susceptibility to alzheimers or heart disease, but that doesn't mean you will get it, especially if you live a lifestyle and avoid the things that could trigger it. But Autism is NOT genetic like Down Syndrome is. THAT is a true case of genetic. But even that is caused by something not working right in the body, which causes the chromosomes to stick together in the process. There is actually only one form of genetic DS (translocation), and that is not the majority of cases. So even something Genetic is not genetically transmittable.
Something in the environment either prenatally ("born with it") or postnatally (regressive autism) is happening. Even the government admitted this in the following link:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=1ab3cf42-802a-23ad-4a3a-686da83bf6d0
People from all over the place, families, special ed teachers who have been in the field for decades (I have personally spoken with a few myself,) heck, even Dr. Oz (!) are admitting that there is an epidemic of Autism. It is real, and it is increasing. Just take a look around at the senior centers of the world and see how many elderly autistic there are. There aren't many. There should be if the numbers have not changed. The current estimate of autistic teens about ready to leave the school system is about 1 million, so it should be easy to find a similar number of autistic elderly, yes? But where are they? Do a search of nursing homes and get those people diagnosed. I will bet you any money that there won't be nearly the number of people.
The fact is, the people working with our kids, scientists, doctors, therapists all know that our children are being poisoned by our environment. Which chemicals? All of them, interacting with each other and synergistically damaging their neurological systems. Autism is an umbrella term to describe behaviors and symptoms, not a real disorder. Autism is Lyme disease, mitochondrial disorder, food allergies, PANDAS, Cerebral Folate Deficiency, and other disorders. It's many illnesses on top of each other and not a psychological disorder. Any parent could tell you that. We don't need all of the eye gazing and genetic studies. All of the genetic studies won't do any good in helping the children of today or even the next couple of generations. Down Syndrome can teach you that. All that happens with genetic information is the ability to test for it earlier so you can abort. DS is a prime example of the. the estimate is that 92-95% of positively prenatally diagnosed fetuses are aborted. New testing has just come out that can be done in the first 10 weeks, and it's very accurate. So how many more will be aborted? You see, there is no cure when the genes are found. Only testing available to terminate pregnancies.
We need stories like this to go by the wayside in order to get help for our kids. As long as the increase in Autism is buried and attributed to numbers, then Autism hasn't changed and nobody has to hurry to find help for our kids. That's the sad outcome of all of this. The reality that may have to hit home is that those 1 million that are leaving the school system have no support outside of school. And the low estimate for care for them is $3 million A PERSON. That's the low estimate. And who is going to pay for them? They are going to bankrupt the country at this rate. So you see, it is in your best interest to get this issue on the top of the list of priorities for our scientists. Enough genetic studies! Let's get real research done, chemicals, pathogenic studies, nutritional studies, new therapeutic techniques. That's what we need, not genetics and eye gazing. That's a waste of your precious tax dollars and mine. Do you want to caregive for my now 7 year old in diapers who won't let me dig the feces out of under her fingernails? There are about 10-18% of those with autism who have DS and Autism out there, and they are on the lower end of the function spectrum. So you see, you should be doing a report on this. And not to urge testing in order to abort, but to get real help.
And the best thing of all is this. Once you do a story on this and get the right information out, a lot of these things that we know to work also will have a positive affect on juevenile diabetes, asthma, allergies, and other illnesses of the immune system. They're all connected. But that's another letter for another day.
So be a hero, and please, please get out the truth. Stand up for us and don't be a tool of those who don't care.
Sincerely,
Julie Leonardo
And this is the crap he sent back:
Thanks for your thoughtful email. There’s no denying that autism still carries a stigma and that some parents remain in denial. But overall, the trend has been in the opposite direction: The stigma has eased and the definition of autism has expanded as have the efforts to identify it, and the diagnosis has gone from being one of last resort to one that many parents will fight for to help their children (as your email acknowledges). We’re not ruling out the possibility of a real increase in incidence; the efforts to find environmental causes are still very worthwhile. But the evidence is quite clear that these social factors can explain a significant part of the growth. As a newspaper, that is what we were able to focus on. When the scientists figure out the causes, we’ll report on that on the front page too. Best, Alan
LA Times Dog of an Autism Series: One Family's Exclusion
By Shannon Hunt March 2010 I rec'd email from a friend that asked it I would talk to LA Times reporter, Alan Zarembo. I then sent him an email and set up a time to meet with him at my home. The time that he was able to do the interview was during my younger sons ABA session and team meeting (a...
I just sent another letter myself and made sure it went to everyone on the list:
Hello,
I have briefly scanned the first part of your series: Discovering Autism Epidemic of Disease or Discovery?
I have to admit that I am a bit disheartened from what I have read. It appears to me that the basic consensus of the article so far is that the increase in Autism is just a factor over better and earlier diagnosis, coupled with a more lax diagnostic criteria. I have to tell you that as a mother of an autistic child (coupled with Down Syndrome,) I know hundreds of mothers of autistic children. Many of them, if not most, fought to get any diagnosis, though it was evident that their children fit the criteria. I have a second child myself who has ASD characteristics, but none of the experts would diagnose her as autistic. So it is pretty insulting to insinuate that parents and schools are just diagnosing children willy nilly in order to get benefits. I DO know moms who have autistic children who refuse to get diagnoses, on the other hand, so that their kids don't get labelled and singled out. That DOES happen, and frequently.
As far as the genetic theory of autism, there may be a genetic susceptibility just like you can have a genetic susceptibility to alzheimers or heart disease, but that doesn't mean you will get it, especially if you live a lifestyle and avoid the things that could trigger it. But Autism is NOT genetic like Down Syndrome is. THAT is a true case of genetic. But even that is caused by something not working right in the body, which causes the chromosomes to stick together in the process. There is actually only one form of genetic DS (translocation), and that is not the majority of cases. So even something Genetic is not genetically transmittable.
Something in the environment either prenatally ("born with it") or postnatally (regressive autism) is happening. Even the government admitted this in the following link:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=1ab3cf42-802a-23ad-4a3a-686da83bf6d0
People from all over the place, families, special ed teachers who have been in the field for decades (I have personally spoken with a few myself,) heck, even Dr. Oz (!) are admitting that there is an epidemic of Autism. It is real, and it is increasing. Just take a look around at the senior centers of the world and see how many elderly autistic there are. There aren't many. There should be if the numbers have not changed. The current estimate of autistic teens about ready to leave the school system is about 1 million, so it should be easy to find a similar number of autistic elderly, yes? But where are they? Do a search of nursing homes and get those people diagnosed. I will bet you any money that there won't be nearly the number of people.
The fact is, the people working with our kids, scientists, doctors, therapists all know that our children are being poisoned by our environment. Which chemicals? All of them, interacting with each other and synergistically damaging their neurological systems. Autism is an umbrella term to describe behaviors and symptoms, not a real disorder. Autism is Lyme disease, mitochondrial disorder, food allergies, PANDAS, Cerebral Folate Deficiency, and other disorders. It's many illnesses on top of each other and not a psychological disorder. Any parent could tell you that. We don't need all of the eye gazing and genetic studies. All of the genetic studies won't do any good in helping the children of today or even the next couple of generations. Down Syndrome can teach you that. All that happens with genetic information is the ability to test for it earlier so you can abort. DS is a prime example of the. the estimate is that 92-95% of positively prenatally diagnosed fetuses are aborted. New testing has just come out that can be done in the first 10 weeks, and it's very accurate. So how many more will be aborted? You see, there is no cure when the genes are found. Only testing available to terminate pregnancies.
We need stories like this to go by the wayside in order to get help for our kids. As long as the increase in Autism is buried and attributed to numbers, then Autism hasn't changed and nobody has to hurry to find help for our kids. That's the sad outcome of all of this. The reality that may have to hit home is that those 1 million that are leaving the school system have no support outside of school. And the low estimate for care for them is $3 million A PERSON. That's the low estimate. And who is going to pay for them? They are going to bankrupt the country at this rate. So you see, it is in your best interest to get this issue on the top of the list of priorities for our scientists. Enough genetic studies! Let's get real research done, chemicals, pathogenic studies, nutritional studies, new therapeutic techniques. That's what we need, not genetics and eye gazing. That's a waste of your precious tax dollars and mine. Do you want to caregive for my now 7 year old in diapers who won't let me dig the feces out of under her fingernails? There are about 10-18% of those with autism who have DS and Autism out there, and they are on the lower end of the function spectrum. So you see, you should be doing a report on this. And not to urge testing in order to abort, but to get real help.
And the best thing of all is this. Once you do a story on this and get the right information out, a lot of these things that we know to work also will have a positive affect on jeuvenile diabetes, asthma, allergies, and other illnesses of the immune system. They're all connected. But that's another letter for another day.
So be a hero, and please, please get out the truth. Stand up for us and don't be a tool of those who don't care.
Sincerely,
Julie Leonardo
The LA Times Makes the Autism Epidemic Disappear
Managing Editor's Note: If you'd like to politely tell the LA Times what you think of their reporting here are contacts: Reporter of the four-part feature, alan.zarembo@latimes.com, VP of health content, tami.dennis@latimes.com, Dept. Managing Editor, marc.duvoisin@latimes.com, Dept. Health Edi...
I sent an email to the authors and got a response, believe it or not, from Paula:
Hello
We appreciate you taking the time to comment on our article.
Our qualitative study was a small study examining the issues that
caregivers face while caring for a child with autism, and was NOT solely
about benefits accrued.
During the one-on-one interviews women were asked to discuss their
experiences and to provide positives and negatives associated with their
experiences. The article that you are commenting about is obviously
relaying the information on the positive aspects these mothers reported
while caring for their children. This is certainly not to say that
there were no negatives ... because there certainly were. These
findings are being published in a second article entitled The Costs of
Caring for a Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in Issues in
Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing. It is also important to note that this
study is a part of a larger study that examined the motor capabilities
of children with autism spectrum disorder. The majority of the children
were considered high functioning along the autism spectrum disorder
continuum, and the majority of the mothers interviewed were taken from
this larger study. However, a few of the children were not classified
as high functioning, and mothers expressed having many difficulties with
their children (e.g., troubles toileting, speech difficulties,
difficulties in social environments, other behavioural issues, etc...).
These negative experiences do appear in the costs article (in press) but
these women did in fact describe benefits, whether or not they represent
all women in similar circumstances.
One of the benefits of qualitative research is obtaining the voice of
each individual interviewee. Qualitative research is NOT meant to be
generalized to all individuals faced with similar circumstances. The
findings from the study published convey the information from the 8
women interviewed and is certainly not intended to be representative of
all mothers of children with autism. I am not sure if you read the
article in its entirety or just the abstract, but do feel that you would
see that there is more to the issue than just the positives if the
article had been read in it entirety.
This phenomena of reaping costs and benefits while caring for a child
with an illness, whether life threatening or not, is not confined to
children with autism. There is a significant body of literature
(pediatric cancer for example) to support this. I, along with another
of my collegues, also complete research in the area of mothers caring
for children with cancer. We have substantiated the same findings as we
did with the mothers of children with autism.
I became involved in the area of mothers caring for children with
illnesses because of a personal experience. My brother was diagnosed
with neuroblastoma (type of cancer) at two years of age and passed away
around his third birthday. Undoubtedly my family's life was in turmoil
caring for my palliative brother who had lost his eyes in his final
stages and had to have every need attended to by my parents, who choose
to care for him within our home. Our family, not just my brother, dealt
with his cancer on a daily basis. At the end of day, all members of my
family, including my parents would say that despite all of the negatives
associated with my brother's cancer and his death, was a silver lining.
In no way would we have wanted to be robbed the opportunity to share in
his life, no matter how brief. I am not trying to insinuate that
having a child with cancer is similar to having a child with autism,
only trying to demonstrate that many people are able to find glimmers of
hope in situations that are difficult.
I apologize if this article has offended you in any way. This article is
not meant to diminish your experience or other parents in similar
situations. At the same time, to not publish the findings from this
study would deny the voices of the mothers of children with autism that
did feel this way. All mothers with a child with an illness experience
different journeys, and they may not all mirror each other.
Paula
_______________________________
Paula C. Fletcher, PhD
Professor & Graduate Co-ordinator
Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 3C5
AofA Science Summary: Benefits to the Lived Experiences of Female Primary Caregivers of Children with Autism
Clin Nurse Spec. 2012 Jan;26(1):48-56. Seeing the glass half full: benefits to the lived experiences of female primary caregivers of children with autism. Markoulakis R, Fletcher P, Bryden P. Source Author Affiliations: PhD student (Ms Markoulakis), Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Scien...
Yeah, it's so frustrating. I would love to just walk in there and say, we know what the issues are with autism. Mainly vaccines after a previous generation of initial vaccine damage (our parents and ourselves) coupled with poisonous water, air, food and medicines. Overstimulated immune systems resulting from all of this causes autism. We could save so much money since we know what the causes are and where the problem is. But that would mean changing an entire culture and system and nobody wants to do that. Laziness and greed.
No One Knows
By Cathy Jameson If you read the mainstream news the message is still the same: No One knows why the dramatic rise in autism is happening. They should just ask Anne Dachel or some of my friends. We’d be able to fill them in. We’d cut to the chase and say exactly what we believe causes auti...
This guy obviously doesn't realize that there is a whole other group of kids out there with Autism that also have Down Syndrome. So not only do you have the Autistic issues, you have the cognitive delays as well with even greater hypotonia. Oh and also, Alzheimers. So there will be people out there who can't dress themselves, think on a higher level and with Alzheimers (at like age 40) who have Autism. Boy is it gonna be ugly! We're talking anywhere from 10-18 % of the Down Syndrome community. And just to let you know how much uglier it is, that community tends to NOT do biomedical/nutritional intervention. A lot of parents with kids with DS view their kids as made that way, so they view it in a neurodiversity kind of thing. Now we don't treat our dually dx'd kid this way, so we do interventions ourselves. But we are facing an uphill battle as we have to treat both diagnoses. So when THIS group of kids reaches adulthood, what are they going to do? This ain't a higher functioning group in general, though with biomed, that could change.
Forbes Presents the Tip of the Autism Iceberg not the Titanic
By Anne Dachel In case anyone is worried about the future for individuals with autism, don't be. Forbes isn't. Reporter Alice G. Walton just wrote a piece that pretends that autism has remained at a constant rate at the same time she talked about the "fast growing number of adults living with...
I would love to try this, please enter us:)
AofA Contest From Lee Silsby
Our good friends from Lee Silsby Compounding Pharmacy and OurKidsASD are offering you a chance to try two popular and useful products this holiday season. We'll have two winners each of whom will receive a bottle of Enhansa curcumin supplement and a jar of ASD vitamin and mineral powder (y...
Yes, the article was cut. I read it and sent a letter to the editor expressing my outrage at Catsoulis' review and the lack of compassion for our kids. Maybe other did the same and they pulled it?
New York Times Reviews The Greater Good Movie Tells Vaccine-Injured Children to Drop Dead
By Anne Dachel The New York Times has sunk to a new low in their consistent attacks on anyone who dares to talk about what vaccines are doing to our children. The Times has just released a review of the new movie, The Greater Good and reporter Jeannette Catsoulis didn’t like what she saw. He...
I would love a copy of this book! I have a non verbal child, and I need to get a look inside of her to see how she must be feeling and thinking!
Age of Autism Book Review & Contest - I Am in Here
Leave a comment to enter to win a signed copy! By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. It's a rare autism book which wins praise from figures as diverse as Tom Brokaw, Jenny McCarthy, Temple Grandin, and Suzanne Wright, co-founder of Autism Speaks. But that's exactly what writers Virginia Breen and her dau...
I remember bringing my daughter home with Down Syndrome and having people try to encourage me with visions of my daughter being able to dress herself and become a bagger at a grocery store. "oh they're so loving!" people would say, and I would get so mad. My daughter isn't here to make YOU feel good or to teach YOU something. She is here to live her own life and to make her own choices. I don't have a problem with her becoming a grocery store bagger if that makes her happy, but don't make that the ceiling for her.
Nowadays since she's been dually diagnosed with Autism, I long for her to be able to bag groceries, but I still aim for higher. I am not even sure where I am going with this, but I want her to have all of life's options available to her. I don't want to long for the day when she can become a grocery store bagger anymore.....I want to feel like it is possible to recover her. And she has made lots of improvements. However it is still a long road from now, and I'm hoping that Autism hasn't buried the possibilities deep within her.
She'll Be a Good Worker
By Julie Obradovic "She'll be a good worker," she said with a smile, not meaning to be insensitive in the slightest. I could tell she thought this was a good thing. "She'll be a really good worker." She'll be a good worker? My eyes fell to the table, the only place I could look, fixated on the ...
Testing for XMRV is now going to be done through this lab: http://www.unevx.com/
How Vaccines Might Cause Autism and Other Diseases
By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. When my daughter's test results showed she was positive for the XMRV (xenotropic murine leukemia virus related virus) retrovirus my next step was to find a doctor who could tell me how to treat it. Since the only other two human retroviruses currently identified are...
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