N.J. autism rate soared in 4 years

[greiner3]

26. While I am not trained;

But my nearly 3 year old grandson most certainly is on the 'autism spectrum.'

Not to bore you with symptoms, I want to mention he was born January 11, 2010 in Panama City Beach FL and has lived there his entire life until he and his family (he drove) moved up here to Columbus OH late October.

Also, he has the 3 anagram precursor to COPD (as you can tell, I can't remember what the anagram stands for much less the actual anagram). His doctor says it's too early to tell if he will/will not develop full blown asthma.

His 7 yo sister, who was a very healthy girl up until Deepwater Horizon, has since also developed the same 3 letter anagram. She is close to a full blown case of asthma and has been to the emergency room twice. She has also developed a bad case of allergies, yes you guessed it, all after the spill.

My son and his wife seem to be symptom free. This makes me think it's the younger lungs that are mostly affected.

Since I mentioned my son, he actually was one of those hired by BP to do clean up a bit west of Panama City. PC got some tar balls (I went to PC just after the spill and collected half a dozen of them. They are all much smaller than my little finger nail.)

He got sick and passed out on the beach. He tells everyone that it was because of dehydration but he is part of the 'payout' BP has to pay to those physically affected. He is hard hardheaded and pretty macho so there is speculation that the cause of him fainting was much more serious than the combo of heat, sun and not enough water.