Autism what is you take?

• dwccrew

  

  CenterBHSFan wrote: I think Autism is a very real condition. However, I also think it is widely mis/over-diagnosed.
  Just as I believe the whole ADD condition is also widely mis/over-diagnosed.

  Bingo!
  
  
  "I'm an excellent driver."
  
• HitsRus

  

  2trap wrote:
  "In this article it talks abot toxic overload which I believe is one of the main factors toward autism,,,our children get way too many vaccines at one time, I mean we didn't get this many and we are fine,,,,and if all these shots are needed then why not break them up more, I have had my 5 year old get 6 shots at one time,,,,not because I wanted them but because my wife is the one that the doctor always talks to because she knows my answer would be no. "
  
  "you believe'....are you an expert? No? Neither am I. But I will suggest you stop "beating up" your wife about her decision to vaccinate your children. Since neither of us are experts, it becomes a matter of who you want to believe. Do you want to believe the CDC which bases it's finding on peer review and scientifically verifiable repeatable studies and reviews ALL the literature by experts....or do you want to take the word of a Chiropractor selling vitamins who cites one study and jumps to conclusions?
  
  FYI...thimerosal has not been used in children's vaccinations since 2001...yet autism rates are still increasing.
  http://health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/immunize/hcp/thimerosalfs.html
• 2trap_4ever

  Hit you may be right about the thimerosal not being in vaccines but it is still used, I mean the H1N1 shots had thimerosal in them,,,,thats why my two youngest didn't get the shots. So it is still used in shots that children get.
• HitsRus

  

  That is true...flu shots are the only thing that it is used in. Your kids can still get the H1N1 vaccination, or any other flu vaccine thru flumist...the nasal technique. in fact for healthy children over 2 that is recommended.
• CinciX12

  

  2trap_4ever wrote: I am the father of an 2 autistic children,,,,,and I have to say that unless you live with it you will never understand it. My child is 5 but has the mental state of a 2 year old, but he wasn't always like that, when he was born he was a normal child hitting all milestones until six months, thats when he went in for his "needed" shots plus the doctor wanted to throw in a flu shot as well because she hadn't made my child scream enough. After all of those shots my child got really ill and had to be in the hospital for a month,,,,when he got out of the hospital he was a different child, he couldn't even hold his head up, he went backwards from that moment and it has been a fight since to get him to where he needs to be. So autism is very real and I wish that doctors would just find the cause and cure instead of worrying about themselves,,,,I say this because if vaccines are finally found to be the cause there would be some major lawsuits out there. I personally don't care about that,,,I just want to know why my little boy isn't like all the other five year olds out there and what can be done to get him there or at least as close as possible.

  First of all, being in the healthcare field I have seen many children with autism, and it doesn't get any easier on me to see it. Its such a sad, sad condition.
  
  That being said, at this point, and it may change eventually, there have been numerous studies conducted that have never found a conclusive link to immunizations and a diagnosis of autism.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  I think depressions is over-diagnosed. Not sure about autism. I can see how it can be.
• dwccrew

  

  2trap_4ever wrote: I am the father of an 2 autistic children,,,,,and I have to say that unless you live with it you will never understand it. My child is 5 but has the mental state of a 2 year old, but he wasn't always like that, when he was born he was a normal child hitting all milestones until six months, thats when he went in for his "needed" shots plus the doctor wanted to throw in a flu shot as well because she hadn't made my child scream enough. After all of those shots my child got really ill and had to be in the hospital for a month,,,,when he got out of the hospital he was a different child, he couldn't even hold his head up, he went backwards from that moment and it has been a fight since to get him to where he needs to be. So autism is very real and I wish that doctors would just find the cause and cure instead of worrying about themselves,,,,I say this because if vaccines are finally found to be the cause there would be some major lawsuits out there. I personally don't care about that,,,I just want to know why my little boy isn't like all the other five year olds out there and what can be done to get him there or at least as close as possible.

  What milestones do children reach by 6 months?
• coach_bob1

  I also have a child with Autism. Our daughter's Autism is a symptom and not a root cause of her problems. She has a duplication of a gene on her 22nd chromosome in her DNA (what is known as a "22q duplication") She is also classified as PDD-NOS (Pervasisve Developemental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified) due to the fact the she has characteristics of different ranges of spectrum. For those of you who are questioning which people doubt the reality of Autism, the answer is the State of Ohio. My wife works for the State of Ohio. If our daughter just had just her Autism diagnosis, she would recieve no coverage under our insurance because the State classified all areas of the Autism Spectrum as a Learning Disorder instead of a Developmental Disorder, thus making it the equivalent of Dyslexia and making it so medical services relating to treatment will not be covered.
• coach_bob1

  dwccrew wrote:
  What milestones do children reach by 6 months?

  They should be able to sit up, laugh, roll over, respond to voices, and should be starting to lunge or crawl.
• Websurfinbird

  

  Interesting article on CNN.com today.
  
  http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/08/autism-a-journey-of-recovery/
  
  Wonder what this means for future diagnosis and treatment of this disorder.
  
  Not sure how I feel about this whole debate. To me at seems that children have so many more "health" issues these days. Unfortunately I do not have a study to back this up. But I remember when I was going to camp (during the 90s), it would be odd to find someone with a food allergy. Fast forward about 10 years later and as a lifeguard we were on high alert for all the peanut allergies. I even hear that some camps won't even serve peanut butter anymore.
  
  Sorry for the tangent.
• OneBuckeye

  

  ^ I agree... allergies, athsma and other things seem to have gone way up...