AUTISM

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Does anyone encounter Autism on a daily basis? if so there's still a debate in my mind on the MMR and Autism, just thought if anyone had any thoughts on the subject
 
I've had a couple friends who were high functioning autistics (aspergers) who were indeed pretty socially awkward but also brilliant at anything they put their minds to. I think it isn't a black and white thing, but rather based on a spectrum.

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I think I got about a 22 on that test last time I took it. 32 being the minimum for being considered a high functioning autistic.
 
I took the test and it looks like ive scored 45, oh so they call me brainy for a reason, hahahah
 
I used to work with autistic people sometimes when I was a volunteer at a hospital. Some of those with autism were socially awkward, others seemed pretty normal minus one or two things here and there, and others you just could talk to because they couldn't hold a conversation. It's pretty sad, and more and more kids are being born with autism.
 
I see an autistic kid two or three times a week and I agree that it can be a challenge to deal with them. He often doesn't seem to register the things I say, he's very impulsive and he repeats his actions again and again. He gets very focused on whatever it is he wants.
 
My oldest son has high functioning autism / aspergers. He is 4 years old. No one can convince that the day the doctors gave him 5-6 vaccines didn't have anything to do with it, it did. He was 18 months old, a bit behind on his vaccines. The doctors told me he'd be perfectly find if they caught him up. Before then, he was completely "normal", hitting his milestones on time and everything. That day he ran a high fever, he became lethargic. We were concerned, and took him back to the doctor the next day. They told us to rotate Tylenol and Motrin, and he'd be fine, we did. He was a different child after that. He regressed in his milestones, stopped making eye contact, anything he said before wasn't uttered anymore. He was in his own world, prone to tantrums and repetitive, extremely focused behavior. We got him into speech therapy at the age of two. He didn't actually start trying to talk until he was 3.5 years old. For a short while, I had him in a preschool program, but I didn't see it benefiting him at all. He wasn't learning anything but bad habits and behavior from the other children. Instead, I stay home with him, and I encourage his interests. He talks now, about anything and everything, although he is difficult to understand at times, has trouble with pronunciation. He has a two year old little brother and they are almost equal in language and social skills. However, he has completely exploded in progress in the last months. I feel it is very beneficial to just forget all the autism stuff and just focus on him & his passions, however he wants to go about it. He has taught me more about life than anything else. He is absolutely a creative little genius. He began drawing rather well literally overnight. He is passionate about so much...science, video games, art, technology.... I just go with it and try to help him the best I can. His behavior has improved a lot, as well, though he is still rather prone to tantrums. For him, it is best to try to calm him when they happen. Instead of trying to correct his tantrums, telling him everything is okay and hugging him seems to be more efficient.
I could go on and on...
Oh, I didn't mention--after the vaccine incident, I stopped vaccinating my children. I think that the fact that he has not continued to be exposed to vaccines has helped him to progress.
Of course, I could be just entirely wrong, right?
just my two cents...
 
Hello, my partner has Asperger's Syndrome, and we're hoping to have children together, so autism is something that I have been researching extensively recently. I worry about the links that were made between MMR and autism for a number of reasons. Firstly, if it was all false, then thousands of children will have missed out on potentially life saving vaccines. Also, I worry that perhaps there MAY have been genuine findings which were then discounted because of the fact that so many people were choosing not to be vaccinated. This makes me wonder whether the results were swayed so that people would take the vaccines up again. I am also interested in the genetic background of autism, as I worry about our children inheriting it from my partner. I have read a lot that is encouraging though, so my worries are lessening as time goes by.
 
OmarFW said:
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Code: 
Agree: 2,4,7,9,12,13,16,19,22,23,26,41,42,43,46: 1 point
Disagree: 1,3,8,10,11,15,17,24,28,32,34,38,40,44,47,48,50: 1 point
Score: 32

Huh. I've never been diagnosed with anything but ADHD (then, who wasn't in the 90s?), but I do feel extremely uncomfortable dealing with people I don't know, and have recently begun questioning my own prognosis. It's not that I don't 'get' people - I just get extremely nervous even around friends of friends that I don't know. That ADHD diagnosis came when I was 9 years old, and I was put on Ritalin (which I took for three years). Shortly after I got on the drug, I stopped making new friends, and started seeing people as something... alien to me. Like a species to be studied. So, all through middle and high school, I had one friend, and spent a lot of the rest of that time studying the people around me. Thanks to this experience, I can generally tell what others are feeling, and can 'read between the lines' so to speak. I understand people rather well. I just, really don't like them. Certainly hasn't helped in my recent search for employment...

Anyway, I don't know if I fall in the spectrum or not. But I can surely relate to some that do. For the past few years, I've wished I had the money for a shrink or something to sort out what's going on in my head. In the meantime, I'll just browse some forums and websites and gather up some information and see how people interact with me through the filter of the Internet. For all of my trouble dealing with people in person (and the phone is actually worse), I have zero problems with IRC or forums. Maybe I'll even learn something about myself here.
 
You know, other countries have already recognized vaccines as having a link w autism: http://www.stuartwilde.com/2013/01/italian-court-links-mmr-vaccine-to-autism/ That link is about how an Italian court has already ruled that MMR can cause autism. There is just a major media blackout on it in the US. Another article of interest is this one: http://alternative-news-network.net/us-courts-pay-out-compensation-to-mmr-autism-victims/ So, I guess the US is recognizing this to some extent, too. I also read that about 25% of autism cases could be caused by antibodies in the mother's blood that restrict brain development...well, I'm not buying that one too much. First of all, I had that test done while I was pregnant and it came back that that was not the case. Secondly, my baby changed overnight following vaccines. The whole push on mandatory vaccines scares the crap out of me. People do not realize how many shots doctors want to give kids these days compared to when we were growing up ourselves...it's insanity. I hope and pray that I get the ability to homeschool my kids, I really do not want to risk my son's progress and have him regress because he was forced to take a vaccine. Some people will argue and say that I'm risking my son's life by not having him vaccinated, but I do not see it that way at all...I feel like there is more harm in getting vaccines rather than not getting them.
 
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