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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 03:21 PM Original message |
Autism rate in Calif. increases |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. OOOOOOOOO |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
2. Really if this is true |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 03:45 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Perhaps the rates of autism are not actually increasing, but |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I've wondered about this myself. According to PSA's I hear on |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 04:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. They used to label the kids either retarded or socially maladjusted |
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BadgerKid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 04:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. And: there are simply more kids. n/t |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 04:06 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. The article said that the RATE was increasing |
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BadgerKid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 11:08 AM Response to Reply #7 |
42. Yes...percentages increasing |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. Is there more screening? Are there better trained doctors? |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:03 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. yes, there is much more training and better screening tools |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:12 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. My thing is, tech is vastly under delivered. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
32. Yeah . . . and maybe the rate of cancers isn't actually increasing . . . |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
5. i think more people are being diagnosed autistic since now there is a standard of diagnoses. |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
8. I always wonder about all the electomagnetic fields modern life creates |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
33. EXCELLLENT and very serious question . .. !!!! |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
10. is autism the new ADHD? |
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loser_user (155 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Aspergers is real |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:05 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. there is no evidence that ADHD is over-diagnosed |
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panzerfaust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 01:16 PM Response to Reply #25 |
45. It may, or it may not be, overdiagnosed. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 05:24 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. it is, the American Pediatric Association did a huge study a few years ago |
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heliarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. High Performing Asbergers Students are GREAT Artists |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
11. There's something going on here. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:23 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I blame chemically enhanced food, toxins everywhere |
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soulcore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:28 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Toxins everywhere indeed. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:31 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. No, I didn't. And, I think you're right. |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:48 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. I'm in agreement with you |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:52 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I'm lucky I was a cheapskate. I used glass bottles & cloth diapers |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:21 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. See, this is what I meant about tech. |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 11:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
40. I knew ONE kid who couldn't eat |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 11:29 PM Response to Reply #13 |
41. Having Babies Later In Life |
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allthatjazz (55 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
12. Has anyone done a study on the use of ultrasound? |
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heliarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:40 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Why do you say it seems like? |
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Blue Diadem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:15 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. Interesting. Found this article questioning ultrasound and autism link. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:30 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. And with it the rate of Caesareans has sky-rocketed --- |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 11:34 AM Response to Reply #12 |
43. The rate has also gone up since Skylab fell |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
14. What about plastic nursing bottles or soy-based formulas? |
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heliarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 06:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Yeah... |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 10:05 PM Response to Reply #20 |
37. Not so much anymore |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
28. Parents of newborns must be in a panic --- !!! |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:26 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. or that the daughters & daughters in law listen to their female elders.. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:40 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Right --- but it 's hard to buck the system. Know how many young women are |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:41 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Especially when so many people have such misguided confidence |
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juno jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 11:04 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Many doctors will not deviate from their protocols |
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Diresu (46 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
36. Autism (and other mental illness) is caused by Flu Virus |
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Bearware (64 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
38. Maybe the Hygiene Hypothesis is to right... |
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panzerfaust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
44. The sad fact: No one KNOWS the cause(s) of autism |
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