Best of AofA: Dream On

Cathy is on summer sabbatical with her five children. This post ran last summer.

By Cathy Jameson

“If you are alive in 2011, no matter what your age, you have been part of one of the largest and worst experiments in history. No matter how carefully you eat or drink or watch your exposure to toxins, your body has chemicals in it that do not belong there and have the potential to make you ill, even fatally ill.” 

From: The Great Global Poisoning Experience by John DeCock:

DeCock continues:  “ … The Scientific American suggests that soaring rates of autism are linked to our constant exposure to toxics. Again, we pay an enormous emotional, practical and financial price to deal with the increase in this disease...”

Wow!

Did my eyes just do a trick on me?  I was not reading this from an “anti-____” (fill in the blank:  government, vaccine, environment) blog.  It was posted on July 15, 20011 on The Huffington Post.  I’m not a big HuffPo reader, but the first paragraph of DeCock’s piece had me thirsty for more.  So, I continued to read.  I actually went back a good four or five times to reread the article.  More bold statements are made further in the post. I invite you to read it.  Go ahead.  Read it again if you have to. 

I first saw the link on Anne Dachel's website and was so moved by the article that I wanted to forward the piece to some people on my email/contact list.  I started thinking about what I would say when I introduced the article because I like to include something personal about why I’m sending a story that I think is interesting:

Hi Family and Friends,

If you're alive in 2011 and don't know anything about what John DeCock is writing about, I hope it's because you're living on some piece of God's green Earth that hasn't been touched by mankind’s greed…or manipulated by Big Brother…or polluted by Big Pharma or Big Industry.  I hope it’s because you have only eaten  pure food that hasn’t been destroyed by toxins, antibiotics, pesticides or been altered from genetically modified techniques.  I hope you have only breathed air that hasn’t known smog or smokestack emission.  I hope you only touch water that has never been tainted by chemical spills or human waste.  I hope it’s because your skin is clear of harmful ingredients now found in “health“-care products and pawned off to make us feel smoother, younger, softer.  I hope your clothes are ones that are free of synthetics, irritants and formaldehyde.  I pray your furniture and flooring aren’t off-gassing chemicals into your living spaces where you and your children eat, sleep and breathe.  Oh, I’ll stop now.  I’m dreaming up fantasies and probably torturing you.  Just go read the article, okay?

xoxo, Cat

If I said all of that in a quick email about the article, I wonder if I’d be looked at as Leader of the Wackos instead of just Cathy who is once again passing on what she thinks is good information. 

As much as I want to solve my problems and contribute to solving the problems that plague the world, I also want to help those closest to me in life.  I know not every friend or family member of mine has the same passion I do; life would get really boring if that were the case. No, we’re all a bit different bringing diverse opinions to each other’s lives.  My differences blend with yours and in turn mix it up a bit for someone else.  That allows us to see each other’s perspectives with a new view and maybe appreciate what we have and even what we don’t have.

 My original thought was to forward this article because John DeCock says so much in such a short read.  Plus, it’s what many in the autism community have been saying for years—toxins, exposures, environmentals, increased rates, illnesses, poisons, diseases, overwhelming problems—truly, all these exist!  And, things must change now before it gets worse.  I thought it would be a nice addition to what I’ve been forwarding for years and what I have been spouting non-stop since my son was affected by toxins in his environment (aka, childhood vaccines). 

I just couldn’t shorten my email message though, and it turned from short reflection into an essay of its own.  Influenced by a fantastic message that will hopefully go farther than from my computer screen to yours, I hope you have been as captivated as I have.  The article is probably going to be an old-news read for you, but it could be a gentle reminder for someone on your list, someone who may need to be reminded to be or become an educated consumer.  Don’t look at is an “I told you so!” sort of message but rather as a wake-up call. Plus, your name isn’t anywhere in the article so people like Uncle Johnny or Grama Louise (who your kid’s autism is just  bad behavior) won’t think you’re Leader of the Wackos.  Remember, that’s my job. 

Go ahead and share the link to DeCock’s essay.  Add your own intro.  Make it personal.  What a vision if every single person would stand up for their personal rights after reading an article like this.  I have a feeling a lot of people won’t care though.  It’s too easy to continue to ignore what so many of us have been saying for so long.  But, we can still send the information onward.  Wouldn’t it be nice if someone else besides just us would get a clue that something’s got to give?

Cathy Jameson is a Contributing Editor for Age of Autism.

Comments

[Cherry Sperlin Misra]

I agree with Willie here. I have no interest in the DeCocks of the world who want to talk about the many toxins in the environment causing autism. In my nursery school in New Delhi we see about 60 kids each year. No doubt many are exposed to toxins. Everyone is spraying mosquitoes and cockroaches, drinking water full of chemicals, putting drinking water into clear plastic bottles. But the kids who get speech delay and autism are the ones who go to the two or three pediatricians in our area who are still using Serum Institute of India vaccines, with double the quantity of mercury as compared to other vaccine manufacturers. Oh, yes, and if someone works for the govt or military and has a son, well he wont look very good either because the govt and military clinics use those same vaccines. Mercury atoms are very very small, but what I say is "I can see mercury with my eyes"

[Cherry Sperlin Misra]

Kapoore, I see kids like that all the time in my nursery school in New Delhi. I tell parents to stop the fish and stop the vaccines and in most cases the child improves within a year or two to the point where he appears normal to most people and I can see only a few lingering small symptoms. If a child is two, he has had so many vaccines already, that he can easily stop them for a year. I used to tell people only to avoid the mercury vaccines, but now, kknowing that aluminium causes mercury to become more toxic, I prefer to stop all vaccines. A two year old child, if he has the misfortune to be given tetanus toxoids, meningococcal vaccine with mercury, is given 5 rabies vaccines(high mercury in some products), or is given flu vaccines with mercury- is likely to become fully autistic. Try to find some good articles on mercury and vaccines and send them anonymously to the family. I have, in the past, avoided discussing mercury in vaccines with some parents, for various reasons (such as yours) and regretted it later. Better to suffer yourself in some way than to see someone lose his mind and his original personality for life.
Some of the articles by Dr. Boyd E. Haley and Michael Wagnitz are very good .

[WILLIE]

VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM

This is another false flag Cathy another lost leader. Your children were injected with vaccines, viruses that incorporated into their genome and altered gene activity, infections in an underdeveloped immune system that alterd the childs immunity and immune response to disease for life by altering vitamin metabolism and assimlation and collagen development. These children have all sorts of manifestations of altered vitamin assmilation.

DeCock continues: “ … The Scientific American suggests that soaring rates of autism are linked to our constant exposure to toxics. Again, we pay an enormous emotional, practical and financial price to deal with the increase in this disease...”

This is garbage from DeCock to get you to stop lookng at the real reason that our children are sick - VACCINES. Remeber these famous phrases.

"Red food dye no 7 is causing hyperactivity in children"

kids are still hyperactive and there is no red food dye no 7
because its the vaccines

"Second hand smoke is causing asthma"

I am 55 years old and my family is from North Carolina, Winston Salem. As a kid all of my parents relatives smoked as a matter of fact a lot of Americans smoked. I did not know even 1 child with asthma. The country as a whole smokes a lot less now than before and that is a good thing. However tons of children have asthma and their parents do not even smoke because its the vaccines

"child obesity is caused by fast food"

This generation of children did not invent hamburgers and french fries believe it or not. We had McDonalds and and A and W Rootbeer and Burger King and Carl's Junior and Hardees and Arby's and a million other hamburger joints and on top of that I used to eat a steak and five eggs every morning in high school. Nobody was fat and noboody had diabetes because its the vaccines

No Cathy we did not have hyperactiviy, asthma, obesity, autism, diabetes, eosiniphilic esophagitis not much leukemia or childhood cancer and certainly no depressed or psychotic kids like today and I don't even remember hearing about special ed schools and there certainly were not whole educational curriculums to educate new students to take care of these children that did not exist yet because its the vaccines.

Cathy, Decock is another paid stooge another Seth Mnookin. All of theses people who are not looking at vaccines should be ignored because what their saying is nonesense noisesome, sounds in the forest, pure hokum.

Stay on point Cathy

VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM

[Kapoore]

I just returned from one of those very pure places on earth, but unfortunately it is not free of autism. The little guy I visited is working very hard on his sign language and he is sputtering out words. His family is so relieved that he is beginning to talk, even though he's already passed his second birthday. I was convinced myself that he had escaped the plague but then toward the end of my visit I felt less optimism. From reading Age of Autism and watching posted videos I knew that autism didn't just affect speech but also motor skills and this small guy occassionally "toe walks" and he doesn't run but has a little skip. His family is amazed by his attention to cleanliness. He spends a lot of time wiping chairs --strange preoccupation for a 2 year old boy, but oh well. He is a happy child and shows interest in playing with his older cousin. He is probably just mildly effected. Unfortunately, he is surrounded by a family of doctors and nurses who are vigilant vaccine proponents and so I said nothing. Will he make it through the next series of shots?? I'm all for saving song birds, and eating organic but we are nearly 200 years into the industrial revolution and this is our first autism plague. We can't blame it completely on those wicked smokestacks and pesticides.

[AutismGrandma]

Re: "The Scientific American suggests that soaring rates of autism are linked to our constant exposure to toxics"

I was poisoned in 1989 from a toxic solvent exposure that severely damaged my health, including my inability to be exposed to any kind of chemicals. (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities) This resulted in my being driven by desperation to research chemical exposures, chemical injuries, chemically induced health damages and DNA alterations created by chemicals, etc. I was shocked to learn how many thousands of chemicals existed in 1989, and the fact that the vast majority of chemicals have never been tested, nor is the chemical industry required to test anything to prove it's safety.

During this research I also learned about Mercury in tooth fillings and Mercury in vaccines, however I never ran into any information regarding vaccines causing AUTISM. I did find information regarding Gulf War Vets being disabled by vaccines, aspartame and formaldehyde in diet soda being the major predisposing culprits resulting in all kinds of health damages, including neurological, pulmonary, intestinal, cancer, immune system and detox system compromised by multiple toxic chemical exposures.

Certainly in the last 23 years since 1989, we have had even more toxic chemicals added to our environment, but of all the existing chemical exposures in this time period, nothing compares to injecting innocent little babies with massive doses of Mercury and now also Aluminum, along with a myriad of other toxic chemicals, virus, bacteria, human and animal DNA, on and on. Injecting multiple POISONS directly into babies who have no fully developed immune system or detoxification system until at least age two is OK? And somehow, amazingly, vaccines are not the primary culprit causing autism???!!!

Well, really why is this so shocking, when the government refuses to recognize the research proving that the multiple military vaccines played a major role in the permanent disability of 250,000 Gulf War vets (recent figures say 400,000) nor will our illustrious government compensate these soldiers or provide them with any effective therapies, not even far infrared sauna therapy or hyperbaric oxygen, although these were shown to be the most effective therapies for the veterans who used these (while they had to pay for all of it themselves of course).

So then it has taken of all of this time for the Powers That Be to finally mention "toxic enviornmental exposures" as a "possible" cause of autism, however they still refuse to acknowledge even the possibility that the massive increase in the vaccine schedule may have a role in the resulting autism epidemic. Two million children with autism in the past 25 years and the vaccines are not even a possible culprit???!!!

I watched a video of Dr.Mark Geier, PhD, and his son David Geier, regarding their investigation into the VAERS database, and the resulting evidence that pointed directly to the vaccines as THE primary cause of the autism epidemic. Their research convinced them that the CDC was fully aware of this, but has chosen to "cover it up" (their words). Somehow mysteriously the Geier's research and the VAERS database information was "lost" by the CDC in their own computers on their own property....hmmmmm

There is no "conspiracy" cover up of the vaccines??? YEAH RIGHT.

[Momma J]

Doesn't this prove that continuing research into autism causes is being conducted?