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Originally Posted by DWB
And Autism is up 78% in the past decade among children.
Go figure.
It's a tough call to make if you have kids and worry about such things.
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I was going to respond differently, but I started reading the entire thread and bookmarked comments. My daughter worked with autistic kids a lot when she was in high school and the first part of her college days. She worked at schools specifically for autistic kids. I spent some time there and we talked about them a lot.
I think it is pretty obvious that it is the change of diagnosis that has caused the increase. What I found interesting is that so many of these autistic kids came from wealthy families. I guess having the cash to pursue the diagnosis helps, which could account for why some third world country does not have as many autistics.
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Originally Posted by SykkBoy
My problem with vaccines aren't the vaccines themslves, but their one size fits all mentality and combining so many different vaccines in one shot. If a child has a reaction to a vaccine, it's tougher to determine what caused the reaction.
I'm not an anti-vaxxer, I'm more of a pick and choose the vaccines. I'd prefer indivual injections as opposed to a one size fits all, just go ahead and combine everything into one shot, type of person. As someone who has a child that's had extremely adverse reactions to a vaccine and the doctor couldn't pinpoint which element it was, I might be just a bit biased on that point...
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So, how do you decide which ones to give your kids? I am not talking about flu shots.
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Originally Posted by ITraffic
yes children growing up in unnatural, alien and sterile environments, cut off from nature and blasted 24-7 with intense and hypnotic information from the electronic devices they are tethered to has nothing to do with impairing normal cognitive development. it must be vaccines ... yeah that's it.
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I am not sure what you are talking about, but sounds interesting.
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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog
The advances in the way we diagnose autism also have nothing to with the increase...
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Originally Posted by MaDalton
where did autism go up? world wide?
my feeling is that today every kid that stares for more than 2 minutes out of the window is diagnosed as autistic...
besides that - even if there was a relation, i'd rather "risk" the very small chance of my kid become autistic than having it die from something that could have easily be prevented
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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog
Its simply that it is over diagnosed in the US and I suspect under in many other countries - Neurotic American parents like to have a label like that for their less that perfect children...
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