And the Band Plays On - Autism is Now 1 in 100

By Kent Heckenlively, Esq.

In 2007 the National Survey of Children's Health conducted a study on the rate of autism.  The results have now been released.  Of the 80,496 children surveyed, 921 were said by their parent to currently have autism or Asperger's syndrome.  That makes the rate of autism in the children surveyed approximately 1%, or 1 in every 100.  The rates generated from data in 2002 and 2003 suggested a rate of 1 in every 150.

A curious finding of the study was that 459 of the parents told the researchers that their child was previously told their child had autism or Asperger's Syndrome, but that they do not have it currently.  This result is in accord with what has been reported by many parents that their children can improve, especially through bio-medical interventions, although many also report success through therapeutic interventions.

When you add the two numbers together, you find that of the 80,496 children surveyed, 1380 either currently have autism or Asperger's Syndrome, or did at some point in the past.  That works out to 1.7% or 1 in every 58 children.  Think about that.  1 in every 58 children is now getting a diagnosis of autism or Asperger's Syndrome in their lives.  If you have two children that means the chance one of your children will be diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder is 1 in 29.  If you have three children the chance is 1 in 19.  If you're Jon and Kate plus Eight that's a little more than 1 in 7.

In commenting on this finding, Dr. Steve M. Edelson of the Autism Research Institute noted, "What we are discovering is that those with autism oftentimes have underlying medical disorders that impair gastro-intestinal, metabolic, and immune systems, and that when these problems are accurately diagnosed and treated, the symptoms of autism improve, sometimes to the point that the child is no longer classified as autistic."

As I was driving home today I heard a local doctor talking on the radio about those crazy people who think vaccines are linked to autism.  The rate has gone from 1 in 10,000 twenty-five years ago to 1 in 100 today.  Something is happening to our children that did not happen in the past.  If not vaccines, then please find what is causing this problem.  A generation of children and their parents deserve an answer.

You can read the full report HERE.

Kent Heckenlively is a Contributing Editor to Age of Autism.

Comments

[Cynthia Cournoyer]

If kids had 1 in 100 tuberculosis or 1 in 100 AIDS, they would wake up and look for a cause simply BECAUSE there are no mandated vaccines for these. The fact that these statistics of 1 in 100 and 1 in 58 does NOT alarm anyone enough to find the "real" cause, shows a motivation to support their future position that autism spectrum disorders are all just normal. And 1 in 7 is about as normal as freckles.

Is there a better way to make a problem disappear than to blend it in with the entire child population and call it normal?

What is the loss of potential? What are the lost IQ points in "typical" kids, not quite on the spectrum? Prepare for the NEW normal. It is the next step in vaccine-damage-denial.

Cynthia Cournoyer
http://www.whataboutimmunizations.com/

[John Fryer Chemist]

Polio

The why's and wherefore's of this disease are difficult for me to fathom out.

The illness came from nowhere and may be linked to vaccines or environmental pollution. No one really knows or wants to say maybe?

Polio for most people can be so slight that many get protection from illness they don't realise they have.

Today, paralysis after vaccines is accepted and years ago may have been called polio.

Did Roosevelt for example get his polio after flu vaccines in 1918 while in the armed forces?

Why does polio given to animals not do much today?

And as you say why has its potency decreased in recent times?

Possibly because we get less organochlorine exposure now?

But there were vaccines before the 1961 date mentioned above. I got my vaccine in the 1950's for sure and certainly before 1955 if my memory is correct.

The polio vaccine does go down as one of the more successful vaccines but even here does modern cancer derive from it? Did AIDS get here from this vaccine or another vaccine or where? Again, no one is saying, even if they know.

Vaccines are part of modern medicine - like it or not but many vaccines given to people not old enough to know the consequences:

To me its more than UNETHICAL; it's CRIMINAL.

Most vaccine preventable illnesses can be treated for a few dollars, not all, true but enough to avoid the MADNESS of 250 000 000 doses of vaccine to stop 30 or less getting ill.

With the medical industry admitting openly to more than 250 000 deaths to patients in USA alone - they would do more good and save more lives if they just went out of business.

And the saving would be ASTRONOMICAL.

We need an in between solution and for me a 90 per cent cut in medical budgets would have a very positive effect on health especially to the 1 in 500 that don't make it to 5 years of age.

DISGRACEFUL.

[John Fryer Chemist]

The information that recovery from autism is now hitting 33 per cent is GREAT news.

When autism was first around, the recovery was close to zero.

Only recently figures of 10 per cent were lifted gently to 20 per cent. AMAZING and making idiots of every autism expert with more than 10 years interest in the illness.

This filip shows something more than amazing is going on.

Most recoveries though occur when the vaccine rush to the afflicted is over and the body gets chance to recover when left to its own devices. GROWTH and REPAIR.

Looking at darker reasons: How about vaccine industry, government and regulators putting in mild cases to disprove that the law of chemistry for chemical properties is still true?

50 years ago or 2 000 years ago, mercury compounds were known to take away your mind.

In the 21st century for a fat fee even chemists who did research in my time from where I learned about the harm of mercury compounds could be seen showing that now organomercury had changed from destroying brain cells to actually improving them.

Those that still held to the Laws of Science could be seen getting harried, demoted and pushed out of universities in a 500 year repeat of what the Church did to Galileo.

I call it a religious belief in vaccine safety.

But it seems those 'fools' that believe vaccines do cause harm seem to get the best chances of avoiding autism or recovering their child when the penny drops or should that be the almighty dollar?

[John Fryer Chemist]

Hi

Perhaps they should stop counting SIDS out of vaccine safety tests?

11 out of 12 clinical signs for SIDS and vaccine adverse effects and they (vaccine companies, government and regulators) can't see the connection when a dozen and more die, drop dead, stop breathing in any vaccine trial.

A 1 in 500 death rate of SIDS in any vaccine trial means the vaccine passes with flying colours.

It's 1 in 100 for autism now, so that means the flu vaccine repeated to get up to three shots will be just fine for the next rise in Alzheimer's too?

I think a prophet called Paul said flu vaccines or any vaccine is completely safe and epidemiology will pick up autism rates down to 1 in 1500.

Don't know how he explains away 1 in 500 dead participants after child vaccines though?

Also I seem to remember a 6 per cent death rate last year in one flu trial in Europe.

1918 here we come again?

I did note that pregnant mums were going to be first up for the flu vaccine but someone in the industry, government or regulation suddenly realised it was a vaccinated versus unvaccinated that could show up the 50 fold link of vaccines to autism.

Of course if they (industry, government and regulators) just said we are trying to kill 1 in 500 and maim for life 1 in 100 then we would have no argument with them.

If you read the small print in vaccine boxes you see they more or less admit most of this already but don't shout too loudly in case more than 20 per cent of the country start using their brain cells before they get shot up.

I read somewhere that man has a free will and control over his own destiny. Wish someone would give those 1 in 500, 1 in 100 or 6 per cent control over there destiny.

Its hard to imagine a 1 day baby thumping his doctor or nurse when injected with GMO fragments banned in his parents food in most countries.

It's a MAD MAD MAD WORLD.

But in vaccine circles more like

It's a BAD BAD BAD WORLD,

if you get on the wrong end of the sharp end of a needle.

Perhaps we should do a body count on doctors and how many autism and SIDS they dish out to their patients?

[Kathy Blanco]

Vaccines are the number one trigger, but what could be two and three or four, or can you really seperate the causes like that. How about calling out the food corporations which routinely spike your childrne's and our foods with MSG/Aspartame/Additives/Preservatives and God forbid genetic/modified. Then how about that fact that we lowered the timing of cord clamping, which asphyxiates monkeys into autism, which by the way, changed from minutes to SECONDS within the last three decades (check ACOG). How about the fact, that we are more toxic than ever, that we have laboratory produced vectors like borrelia rampant in most people, giving it to their children, or the fact we started using tylenol to reduce vaccine fevers which lowers glutathione and messes with fever metabolism and reduces the chance for the body to normally expose viruses? How about that we have changed our homes into vaccums of death, like formaldehyde and other noxioous outgassings? What about all the EMF's increasing with computers, TV's, and cell towers? I am not sure of the first, the second or the third hits, but I am sure that there has never been a study of what these combinations are doing. Or, the fact that any neurological disease, the first thing that gets damaged is the blood brain barrier, allowing noxious substances, and normally barred viruses from entering? Can not most of these things damage that? You bet...but still, I think vaccines are the giant PULL of the trigger. Not to mention or insecent need to be thoroughly bathed in pollutants from utero to baby when the brain is TRYING to form correctly. Forget about genetics, forget about synapses, they don't have a chance to be normal.

[S B]

Just to add a note of alarm: 8/12/09 on the noon news they showed a prolonged view of the vial for the H1N1 flfu vaccine: Tho?merisal is clearly listed as an ingredient!
My questions:
1)Is this a misspelling or a new form of mercury (Thimerosal)?
2)If we are now asked to vaccinate all children, prenatally to 24 years old, with 2 doses, then we will never have a mercury free baseline for research in this country again!
They may have taken mercury out of one or two vaccines since 1997 but they keep adding it back into ohter vaccines such as the seasonal and H1N1 vaccines!
Parents: Please read the exact label that fills the syringe they use on your child. You have a right to see and approve of the WHOLE process. Don't take anyones words for it.....Don't be shushed!

[Autism Grandma]

"That works out to 1.7% or 1 in every 58 children. Think about that. 1 in every 58 children is now getting a diagnosis of autism or Asperger's Syndrome"

When 1 in 150 is really 1 in 67

By Raymond W. Gallup & F. Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP

http://web.archive.org/web/20071223152720/www.vaproject.org/yazbak/1-in-150-is-really-1-in-67-20071005.htm

"On February 8, 2007 the CDC released 'New Data on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) from Multiple Communities in the United States.' (1)

Since then, most people and the press have been under the impression that in the United States, the “new” CDC- reported ASD prevalence rate of 1 in 150 was a recent discovery that was current for 2007 when indeed it was not at all. The study did not document a prevalence of 1 in 150 among children born now or five years ago. The study revealed that among U.S. children born in 1994, thirteen years ago, 1 in 150 on average had a spectral disorder."

"Something is happening to our children that did not happen in the past. If not vaccines, then please find what is causing this problem."

What ELSE happened besides the vaccine schedule quadrupling???!!! The Autism Epidemic appeared coincidentally at this exact same time??? For the many thousands of parents who have witnessed their child's autism regression as an obvious result of vaccines, there is no doubt. For the rest of the parents who have not "connected the dots" due to delayed autism regression symptoms, or due to simply accepting their doctor's assurance that "vaccines do not cause autism", perhaps they should at least do heavy metals/porphyrin
testing ....SURPRISE!!! Now WHERE did all those heavy metals come from???

[Jen Sharp]

"What we are discovering is that those with autism oftentimes have underlying medical disorders that impair gastro-intestinal, metabolic, and immune systems, and that when these problems are accurately diagnosed and treated, the symptoms of autism improve, sometimes to the point that the child is no longer classified as autistic."

I wonder which medical conditions can mimic features of autism.

[JenB]

Tim,

Thanks for your response to my question and your hard work! I saw your post earlier in the year, and was hoping to maybe look at this study at least informally in a similar way.

My child was born in '97, a little more than a year before the "some children may have received Hg in excess of one government safety reg" announcement, and we were seeing a pediatrician thoroughly acting in the realm of vaccine progressive purgatory (and yes, my child had a very stupid mom): Heb B right on the day of birth, HMO favored multi-dose vials, threw in a flu shot announced on the fly in the 2 month check-up, had a discussion with an inadequately trained aid about the need to thoroughly shake vials she had already been administering (but had to leave the office to fully explain it outside of my hearing), gave my child an injection from that vial anyway, had my child scheduled to come in almost a month early for many of the well-baby visits, "Your child has a fever? Come on in, we can check that and no problem with vaccinating ...", "OK, now we'll give your not quite one-year-old child both the MMR and Varicella vax" (because the more live viruses together the merrier, I guess), probably received every possible thimerosal containing vaccine on the schedule...

Anyway, I've been wondering if a comprehensive look at the health of children born just prior to the move to "remove" thimerosal, before officials temporarily delayed the HepB vaccination, etc. would give more useful prevalence numbers to demonstrate the environmental assault our children our living under, and maybe wake some people up who don't really see children on a daily basis (and some who do). But maybe that's just wishful thinking?

[Jeanne Klonr]

While I don't think there is a cure, just ways to be more comfortable in our society, Autism is on the rise. I have 2 young grandsons, 6 1/2 and 5 who are both dx'd with PDD_NOS. We are almost sure the youngers one will be changed with Aspbegeres at a later date.Living with them and being their daily caregiver. We need to spend more time and money on therapies that can help our kids cope with a world they cannot understand.

I think that their brains function differently than ours "normal" ones. And we need to be seeking out modalities to help our kids survive and flourish in this world.
I think most of the meds given is to placate teachers, parents etc. no other reason.