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fasttense

(17,301 posts)
13. Yes chemicals like lead
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 08:42 AM
Dec 2012

Lead is everywhere in our environment because it was added to gasoline (though it has been banned). It settled everywhere and gets kicked up especially on hot days. The damage to children from lead follows the poverty areas because that is where the largest concentration of gasoline use is found. Private planes still use lead based fuel so people near private airports are still at high risk. But if you do any renovations in your older home, you kick up that lead all over again.

Checkout Mother Jones article. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/05/lead-prisons-and-crack-explaining-drop-violent-crime

N.J. autism rate soared in 4 years [View all] proverbialwisdom Dec 2012 OP
Eh. Behavioral health people are rewarded for a diagnosis Recursion Dec 2012 #1
I wondered if it was environmental or diagnostic enthusiasm. nt MADem Dec 2012 #2
Awareness may have uncovered hidden cases bucolic_frolic Dec 2012 #6
Yep--hard to know. If we could remove the profit motive from the diagnostic piece, we might get MADem Dec 2012 #29
Ruled out by the article: "... 80-85% of children in the study had the most severe form of autism." proverbialwisdom Dec 2012 #3
"The most severe form of autism" just means "not Asperger's or PDD-NOS" Recursion Dec 2012 #4
That's clearly inaccurate. Check any of these links. proverbialwisdom Dec 2012 #5
Did you read them? They're saying what I said Recursion Dec 2012 #15
Sloppy spelling x2. Rushing? proverbialwisdom Dec 2012 #19
Since that wasn't what I said, I don't have to be serious about it Recursion Dec 2012 #23
Nonissue side-show diversion for me, sorry. proverbialwisdom Dec 2012 #25
It's the LEAD ingested by children fasttense Dec 2012 #12
You have just described the majority of mental health diagnoses. Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #16
Unfortunately Recursion Dec 2012 #17
Ya know, it really pisses me off when Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #20
There's no doubt that the incidence of autism is rising.... ReRe Dec 2012 #7
Yes. WHY? southerncrone Dec 2012 #8
Actually, there are so many chemicals in our enviroment caseymoz Dec 2012 #9
Yes chemicals like lead fasttense Dec 2012 #13
There seems to be a genetic component. dipsydoodle Dec 2012 #10
A genetic component may mean that under Ilsa Dec 2012 #11
Autism increased dramatically during the 90's, not the 80's. proverbialwisdom Dec 2012 #18
It began showing up in kids born in the '80's, but southerncrone Dec 2012 #32
Plenty of researchers doubt that Recursion Dec 2012 #14
Your citations are from 2005, 2005, 1991. Stale. proverbialwisdom Dec 2012 #21
Dr. Tom Insel, 2009, MIT: increase in autism is real. proverbialwisdom Dec 2012 #22
A lot of faulty Diagnosis and scamming the system WestCoastLib Dec 2012 #24
It also qualifies them for extra govt. money if they are on assistance. southerncrone Dec 2012 #33
While I am not trained; greiner3 Dec 2012 #26
Rising age of fathers? mainer Dec 2012 #27
The NYT is the last place to look for accurate reporting on the subject of autism, sadly. proverbialwisdom Dec 2012 #30
The speed of the increase is too great to attribute solely to increased parental age, Zahorodny said proverbialwisdom Dec 2012 #31
Another article on father's age and rising autism rates mainer Dec 2012 #28
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