Study Finds Link Between Wi-Fi and Autism

Many toddlers and babies are coming down with autism right AFTER 6-7 shots bundled!!! It has supposedely been triggered by these vaccines. Many congress people are not allowing their kids to be vaccinated...duh! There is a bill pending about no more mandatory shots for kids, write your congressman and urge them to vote for it! And yes, the government is behind it.
On another note, just because someone makes a dumb statement, try to educate them without anger because you just add to it with your anger. My two cents....

Remember when Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (Attunement to a Higher Dimension) was prevalent, hysterectomies, diabetes, this and that, etc.....now its autism.....BIg Pharma needs more money!

It amazes me just how some people think. For a lot of parents who have more than one child with autism, The diagnosis was not made before the next child was born. My sons are 22-months apart. My oldest wasn't diagnosed until he was 2 1/2. Both of my boys are on the spectrum. Autism is not new. Far from it. If you do a little research (especially in the lives ASD adults and what they went through as kids) you will find that a vast majority of kids with ASD were misdiagnosed and/or institutionalized instead of treated. Doctors are still learning. There are still ignorant doctors out there who think all kids with autism must be retarded. No one knows what causes it. There is a lot of good research out there just as there is a lot of junk research. As educated adults we need to be able to sift through all of this information. We need to not just jump on the bandwagon because it sounds good for the moment. What is most important is educating the ignorant and teaching our kids to live the fullest lives that they can lead. Feeling sorry for ourselves and pointing fingers does not change the fact that the child needs to be taught to live thier lives. Only someone who is associated with autism will understand what I mean by that comment. There so many things that we take for granted that have to be taught to an ASD child. Understanding emotions and facial expressions are just the tip of the iceberg. Lee's comment about drugs can be taken in different ways. But before you bash him for his comments think of this, what are a lot of drugs made from? Not all, but a lot are made from ingredients that come from plants and animals. Some are even made from bacteria,etc. So, in a sense, we all are drug users. For the people who say that autism doesn't exist and it's just bad parenting, some of your best parents are parents of ASD kids. We have to fight for our kids' rights for education, to keep our kids from being institutionalized, (for some of us)to keep our kids off of all those drugs that doctors like to dish out, etc. I have had to fight to keep my oldest out of an institution because the state thinks it would be easier for me if I didn't have to deal with him. I had to move because the state threatened to take my kids away because I didn't want them to be doped up. What works for one child doesn't necessarily work for another. For my kids the drugs caused more problems and didn't help at all. For the people who say that we as parents are wanting a label for the insurance money, here's a loop hole for you, insurance companies can deny services for needed medical treatment for other conditions if they can in any way relate it back to autism. Life insurance policies have been denied to parents of autistic kids until they reach a certain age (ie. I was told 16). Not everything is cut and dried. If you don't live with the world of ASD then you don't understand it fully. As for the teacher who made the unprofessional comments. I would not let you near my kids. Well meaning teachers like you are the ones who have told my kids that they were too stupid to learn. One was even nice enough to tell me in an IEP meeting that if she has a child like mine that she would have to murder it. Yes, autistic kids (like other kids with disabilities) take more work. Yes, we do need more one-on-one, which is not easy to get because the agencies that we are getting so much money from don't want to pay for it. As for labeling, how many kids don't get to live up to thier potential because someone was too afraid to label them. Ok they don't have a label so they must truly be too stupid to learn this, instead of ok we have this label so we know we need to modify our teaching to accomodate the child. We all learn differently, we all need accomodations. We just need to find what works for us and our children. My kids are homeschooled now and have progressed amazingly well. I found what works for them. Thier state test scores have increased greatly. They are expected to acheive high standards, not to under achieve because they have a disability. They are taught that they can do just about anything that they want to; they just may have to do things differently. This is as any child should be taught.

What about the incredible increasing use of plastics since autism was first identified, or food additives, preservatives, chemicals in food, products, medicines, even makeup and lotions? Look at ewg.org.

Please,please,please let's look for a mechanism (method of cause) for autism instead of these endless reports of "associations" that do nothing but drive unreasonable fears of things people don't understand.

As a physician and an uncle of an autistic child, I empathize with those who would like an easy answer, but it is simply not there. Vaccines do far more good in this world than ill, and there is no reasonable thory of causation of autism here, either.

Just like many once thought eating sweets caused diabetes, inaccurate "association causations" have existed for most devastating diseases. Let's apply the scientific method, look for cellular differences between the autistic and non-autistic and proceed in a logical manner.

As for the increase in diagnoses of autism and related syndromes (i.e. Asperger's syndrome), the public and Doctors are MUCH more familiar with the diagnostic criteria and make a correct, specific diagnosis much more often.

Autism has a link to computers, though it actually goes back to Sesame Street. All the 2-3 year olds who watched Sesame Street when it came on in 1969, became teenagers in 1980, when MTV and video games were invented because early Sesame Street bombarded kids with images, and they never learned long term gratification. You may remember there was a rise in cases of ADD and ADHD in the 70's, right? The generation of people with ADD or ADHD are having kids with autism (drugs have nothing to do with it). Brains have become rewired through evolution. I am a special education teacher and did my master's thesis on autism. There is no cure for autism, only relief from symptoms.

Check this out:
"Body Burden — The Pollution in Newborns
researchers at two major laboratories found an average of 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants in umbilical cord blood from 10 babies born in August and September of 2004 in U.S. hospitals. Tests revealed a total of 287 chemicals in the group. The umbilical cord blood of these 10 children, collected by Red Cross after the cord was cut, harbored pesticides, consumer product ingredients, and wastes from burning coal, gasoline, and garbage."

http://archive.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/

I don't know if autism research is looking into more environmental exposure.

This site lists products from the safest to more hazardous, the ingredients and related risks. One BABY product included:


http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/browse.php?maincat=babycare

I'm sure it can be said that the ingredients are used in a small amount. But who KNOWS what ingredients/products we use daily or weekly contribute to the increase in cancer in adults and children, maybe autism, chronic fatigue, depression and so on, and on. These things must have increased due to something.

LOOK at the top of the site link - you can find out how SAFE (or not) your makeup, lotion, insect repellent, suntan lotion, etc. are!

My above entry didn't include one paragraph on a baby product:

"Other concerns for ingredients used in this product:
Neurotoxicity, Endocrine disruption, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Miscellaneous, Multiple, additive exposure sources, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Enhanced skin absorption, Contamination concerns, Occupational hazards, Biochemical or cellular level changes"

I've also been surprised to read MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) on different ingredients - it looks scary! Google "MSDS" and common ingredients, like sodium benzoate, used in lots of foods and was in many sodas until recently.

http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/Na_benzoate.htm

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For those of you talking about the vaccines just remember while that may have been the cause in the past the chemical that they were adding to the shots was removed from them so while it may have been the cause in some of your cases it cannot be the cause for any more young children age 4 or younger.

What about amalgam (silver) fillings? Do any of you parents of autistic children have many silver filling? This is another area we don't know too much about...

MY COMMENT WERE ON AUTISM. AND I BELIEVE SCIENCE MUST CREATE A NEW UNIVEERSAL "COLOR-CODECC' LAW OF ALL THE ELEMENTS THAT MAKE UP MATTER .
ONCE THAT IS CREATED, FIND THE "FINGER PRINT OF THE ILLNESS AND MATCH IT TO THE UNIVERSAL CODE OF MEDICINE WHICH MAY DESTROY THE DISEASE!

Can autism be a result of evolution? My good friend from our college days is a highly respected, renowned child psychatrist. He states that he personally believes that autism is an evolutionary condition -- the brain's reaction to the overwhelming input stimuli of the modern world.
An interesting concept -- possibly valid? How do we test it?