New DU Group: Asperger's/PDD Group

[Skinner]

The DU Asperger's/PDD Group is a forum where those who suffer from Asperger's or PDD can post and discuss the various aspects of Asperger's and PDD and share life experiences as well as support. People who have family members or friends with Asperger's or PDD are welcome.

Click here to visit this group.

Click here to add this group to your My Forums list.

Please let interested DU freinds know about this new group, and encourage them to participate. Someone should take a moment to go through this thread and send private messages to everyone who expressed interest in participating in this group.

Please Kick and Recommend this thread

Skinner
DU Admin

[BlueStorm]

1. Kick!!!

This is important, there's so many of us out there and there is no viable network, DU is a great place for people of like minds to network. I am looking forward to meeting fellow Aspies and people who have Aspies in their lives.

Blue

[bananas]

2. k&r nt

[phylny]

3. K, R, n/t :)

[spooky3]

4. Should the welcome be broadened?

Some us have close relatives who are not our children, who have this syndrome.

[BlueStorm]

7. I think that would be welcome as well.

I started up the group and I wasn't thinking about that. D'oh!!!

Blue

[spooky3]

8. ok, thanks, and thanks for starting the group.

[Skinner]

11. I have changed the welcome

it now includes "family members and friends"

[spooky3]

12. that's great--thanks!

[niceypoo]

5. This is so awesome!

I mentored a teenager (helped him get into college) with Asperger's and it was a trying but rewarding experience. He and I will be lifelong friends (He is 22 now) and we talk politics all the time (he is on our side). He came up through the foster care system here in washington state and left voluntarily when he turned 18. He was living on the street when he contacted a cousin who is a friend of mine. He is doing well now in Portland Oregon where he builds computers. He will be so happy when I show him this group!

Peace V

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. K&R

Thank you! And I don't think it's presumptuous to extend thanks on behalf of all those who are affected by the disorder(s).

I know that PDD and ASD are generally considered synonymous, but would it be appropriate to include "Autism spectrum disorders" in the groups mission?

[AikidoSoul]

9. YES, INCLUDE AUTISM -- ALL ARE BRAIN DISORDERS

This is my area of expertise -- brain disorders. It is a huge problem stemming more often from heavy metals and low level, chronic exposure to neurotoxins -- ubiquitous synthethic chemicals that injure the brain and central nervous system. One of the best groups that are really digging into the truth on autism is Generation Rescue.

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The Age of Autism: Heavy metal
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050524-081141-5338r.htm
By Dan Olmsted
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

Washington, DC, May. 24 (UPI) -- Parents of autistic children Tuesday launched an organization called Generation Rescue based on their conviction that flushing mercury out of children's bodies improves and in some instances reverses autism.
Click to learn more...

"For parents who are on their backs with a foot on their neck trying to keep their lives together, we want to help them get to the truth as quickly as possible to help their kids. That is the single reason Generation Rescue exists," said co-founder J.B. Handley of San Francisco, father of a three-year-old, Jamison, who he says has been transformed by chelation
(key-LAY-shun) therapy.

The technique involves using doctor-supervised pills or creams that induce excretion of mercury and other toxic metals. While chelation has been used for 40 years as a treatment for lead and other heavy metal poisoning, its impact on autism is unproven and highly controversial.

More controversial than the process, however, is what its adherents say it shows about the cause of autism.

"Through our own research and initiative we have discovered a truth that we feel every parent should know," states the group's Web site, generationrescue.org, which Handley said is funded exclusively by parent donations. SNIP

[AikidoSoul]

10. The most evil companies in the entire world cause these problems

The growing body of evidence about culprits increasingly implicated in causing brain injury illnesses -- are almost never mentioned in the mainstream news. Even when Harvard University comes out with a press release entitled, "A Silent Pandemic: Industrial Chemicals Are Impairing the Brain Development of Children Worldwide" -- the press will not report it.

why?

Because the culprits are the chemical / pharmaceutical industry -- the most lucrative, and most politically powerful group in the world. It supports the networks and other media with huge advertising revenues and greatly influences what is reported in "health" and "science" news. There are more chem/ pharm lobbyists in DC than any other-- and producers at the networks have complained for years that they can't get chemical injury stories on the air due to pressures from that industry. Scientists and researchers who attempt to discuss chemically induced brain injury are repeatedly attacked and have their careers ruined by this industry -- which has influence at every level of society.

Man made chemicals that affect the brain are extremely pervasive -- they affect all of us, not just small children. Chemical injury experts have been trying to get the big universities to report on this for a long time but it had to get to become a "pandemic" before Harvard would consider putting out a paper on the topic. Here's the press release:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/press/releases/press11072006.html

Harvard does pull its punches though. It stresses "industrial" chemicals, and "large volume" chemicals, but does not mention that the most devastating types of chemicals are found in solvent based products such as pesticides -- which are even impregnated into everyday products like paint and clothing (pyrethroids can't be washed out even after 30 washings!) Add to that the household pesticides, solvents, textiles, cleaners, detergents, fragrance materials, and hundreds of things containing neurotoxins commonly found in people's homes and offices. Being exposed chronically to low levels of these toxicants damages the brains and immune systems of its occupants. The brain is the main processor in the body -- when it is damaged it affects every body system right down to the cellular and enzymatic systems. The brain is very sensitive.

Why do I call them the most evil companies in the world. Easy. Think about it. The same companies that produce toxic chemicals, also produce drugs, own chemo patents, own medical imaging equipment and patents on a wide range of medical products. The chem / pharm industry profits on all sides of the picture, first when it sells you the untested (not required before marketing) neurotoxic products to you, and then again when you need medical interventions when you become chronically ill. It steals your health, your life and your wealth.

[earth mom]

13. Thank you for your excellent posts about Autism & the EVIL Pharma Giants.

The greedy and evil pharma giants have completely distorted the truth behind the cause of Autism. It is not unlike what the tobacco companies did when they tried to hide the fact that smoking causes cancer or how the oil companies get their think tanks to skew the evidence and say that there is no global warming. These corporations control the government and they control the media and thus they control the message.

To do what they have done to innocent children is not only vile, it is criminal.

[HappyWeasel]

14. ...interesting.

I am begining to think that "autism" or "ASD-NOS-whatevers", or basically "too 'aloof' and 'clumsy' to get/keep a good/any job" (that's really the only thing we know whats going on)disease is really a physical injury and not a pathology. I think this has two implications. The first implication is that this is a treatable condition (with advances in chemistry and electronics) and the second is that we can find someone to blame (though this seems to be a pretty mean-spirited thing to think). Although there could be a genetic mutation that causes autism or borderline autism (let's use this for HVA, AS, PDDNOS and Tourettes(?), it appears that such mutation would not be able to survive. For example, we know that ADD/ADHD served as a way for one man to save his tribe from starevation by being to carried away, sneaking off and subsequently suprising a big animal when the animal is being distracted by the hunting party. We are begining to see that homosexuality was a way to create peace and less competition in social groups and that blond skin was a way to digest vitamin D when away from the equator and that blond facial features (watery colored eyes and brilliantly colored hair) was a way to attract mates in populations that were decimated constant hunting of dangerous animals. The question then becomes what autism could do to survive in the human bloodline for so long. It appears not be an accidental thing like Trisomy-21, but also appears to be a burden in very dangerous living conditions.