Alfred Moya

This article would have us believe that autism is linked to rain. I guess it could be but I somehow feel that it takes a little more than rain to genetically modify someone.

This line in the article pretty much sums it up:
“In recent years autism has been blamed on everything from discarded iPod batteries to mercury from Chinese power stations, from antenatal ultrasound scans to post-natal cord clamping, from diet to vaccines,” Fitzpatrick said in a statement.”

There are more than one reason for the condition called autism and trying to figure it out is useless. It’s become a blame game with the medical establishment throwing out garbage science to confuse people and avoid being caught poisoning our children. What we need to do is figure out how to make the world a safer and better place for these people. The common thing I have seen in most autistic children is an inability to defend or protect themselves in the face of danger. Most autistic children are simple happy people who focus more on the lights in a room rather than whether or not someone is trying to take advantage of them. They need a world where their neighbor isn’t willing to use them to get ahead.

It seems to me like autistic people are an evolutionary step forward with new abilities they have a difficult time understanding or managing. My son cannot control the things he hears and is easily distracted by the everyday sounds of life we all tone out. He will probably never drive a car or even hold a normal job but he will make music one day I m certain. By taking a step forward inn evolution this new generation has lost some of those base abilities we take for granted. My son has a hard time tying shoes but he loves anything slip on or velcro. He’s defenseless against many people and a pushover when it comes to dealing with others. Even much smaaller and much younger children can easily overpower or take addvantage of my son because he rarely faces confrontation or defends himself. He allows people to take things from him and he wont say anything about it.

In the world we live in now he is weak and sure to become a victim of the nasty hard world around him. He has evolved while society and the world around him has de-evolved into a nasty uncivil place where my sons unequivocal trust of man is a liability and not a trait to be admired as it should be in an evolved society. We will spend billions in search of the reasons for autism and billions more on the search for a cure when what we should do with that money is use it to force the evolution of society into a better and safer world for all of us.

Autism linked with rainfall in study | Health | Reuters

Children who live in the U.S. Northwest’s wettest counties are more likely to have autism, but it is unclear why, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

Michael Waldman of Cornell University and colleagues were searching for an environmental link with autism, a condition characterized by learning and social disabilities.

They got autism rates from state and county agencies for children born in California, Oregon and Washington between 1987 and 1999 and plotted them against daily precipitation reports.

“Autism prevalence rates for school-aged children in California, Oregon and Washington in 2005 were positively related to the amount of precipitation these counties received from 1987 through 2001,” they wrote in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, a London physician who wrote “Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion”, expressed doubt, noting that autism diagnoses are on the rise in all climates.

No one know what causes autism, whose symptoms range from severe social avoidance to repetitive behaviors and sometimes profound mental retardation.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about one in every 150 children has autism or a related disorder such as Asperger’s Syndrome. Rates in many countries have been rising, although that may be partly due to increased reporting and diagnosis of the condition.

Doctors agree there is a genetic component to autism. They also theorize that something in the environment and possibly conditions in the womb can trigger the condition.

The researchers said their study supports this idea.

Perhaps infants and toddlers are kept are kept indoors in front of the TV more in rainy climates, and that somehow causes brain changes, they said. Or perhaps they breathe in more harmful chemicals while indoors.

Vitamin D deficiency caused by insufficient time in the sun might also be a trigger, they said.

“Finally, there is also the possibility that precipitation itself is more directly involved,” they wrote. Perhaps a chemical or chemicals in the upper atmosphere are transported to the surface through rain or snow.

“In recent years autism has been blamed on everything from discarded iPod batteries to mercury from Chinese power stations, from antenatal ultrasound scans to post-natal cord clamping, from diet to vaccines,” Fitzpatrick said in a statement.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a long-term study to find the causes of autism and other childhood conditions.