Abdulkadir Khalif needs yes and no answers.

" ... I will never accept the notion that a doctor who does not know what causes autism can still tell me what does not cause it....."

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It's always amazed me how the medical establishment has gotten away with such nonsense. I especially like the doctors who arrogantly claim there is no autism epidemic, and the exploding incidence is entirely the result of "improved diagnostic abilities".

If you do little more than scratch the surface of this claim, you’ll see that the incidence of autism was ~ 1 in 10,000 back in 1980, when children typically received 10 vaccines before their 6th birthday. By 2007, that number had skyrocketed to 36, and the rate of autism has also increased to 1 in 67, and potentially as high as 1 in 38 for boys. To put that another way, the incidence of autism has risen from 1 in 10,000 to 150 in 10,000.

Now, the reason for the increase COULD be improved diagnostic abilities. But this would mean that an entire autistic population has been here all along, but has simply gone undiagnosed. This would further imply that today's doctors are diagnosing an extra 149 cases per every 10,000 people, cases that doctors in 1980 were simply... missing??

The other obvious problem with this theory is… where are all of those 30 year old autistic people today? If autism truly is a life long condition with a genetic origin, then they wouldn't have just disappeared. And if today’s doctors are really that much better at diagnosing autism, why aren't they catching up on all those cases that were missed back in the 80's?

The whole “improved diagnosis” claim is utter nonsense. My son regressed after his second MMR, and when his behaviors became too obvious to explain away, I diagnosed him myself within 5 minutes of printing off a symptom list from the internet.

I’m not a doctor, and although my home diagnosis occurred in January of 2006, it took 9 months for me to convince my son’s doctor to consider the possibility. And when she did finally concede that autism was "a possibility", this overpaid buffoon said that my non-verbal 3 year old most likely had Aspergers (…??). I'm guessing she didn't graduate at the top of her class

My son received his “official” diagnosis in January of 2007, after 4 months on a wait list to see a doctor who was actually qualified to provide it. That diagnosis came after a significant amount of prompting on my part, and it was granted almost 1 year to the day after I had figured it out myself.

I hate to have to say this, Mr. Abdulkadir Khalif, but I think your Somali community is the greatest hope for all the rest of us in the US who have affected children. As more elected officials push for vaccine mandates with tightened religious exemptions, I have to ask who in their right mind would be crazy enough to argue the sincerity of the religious tenets of a devout Muslim who prays five times a day? How could any judge, attorney, school board member, or school nurse conducting a "religious sincerity" hearing to "prove" religious faith be dumb enough to mock or denigrate the faith of a person who prays more often, and more openly, than they do? It appears things will come to that point, unfortunately. I am praying for all of us that this madness stops before our very bloodstreams are sold to the vaccine manufacturers by our legislators, with the blessings of the vast majority of fully indoctrinated medical professionals and scientists.

Thank you for your article. We are all up against such ignorant, arrogant, self-interested, and completely uncaring people who dare to call themselves "health professionals." I am so sad about what is so obviously happening to our children in the US. As our children with autism become the majority, and as more children suffer life long disability, the truth about the harm from our overly aggressive vaccination schedule will become obvious to all.

I wish you and your beautiful son, Abdimalik, the best. May you find the medical answers you seek to help him.

I wonder if any parents of autistic children have noticed a difference after removing MSG and other sources of glutamates from their children's diets. (Hidden sources of glutamates are myriad and include such innocent-sounding additives as "spices" and "natural flavoring." I just found "natural flavoring" in my kid's gummy vitamins.)

Here's an article about glutamates and autism by Dr. Russell Blaylock:
http://www.sirricenter.com/pdfarticles/26_Excitotoxicity_Autism.pdf

as a fellow minneapolis parent, who has yet to give her 3.5 y/o son the MMR shot, thanks for making your voice heard. i honestly have no reason to think my son is susceptible to getting autism and sometimes wonder if i should just go get him the shot already. but it's articles like this that remind me why i've refused to in the first place.

Dear Abdulkadir Khalif,

Clear, bold and painfully heartfelt.

You message was entirely unlike the unsubstantiatable PR fluff offered up by Dr. Abdirahman D Mohamed, the Somali doctor - as you well-pointed out.

Dr. Mohamed may yet become a grand PR star for Offit's Pharma forces of obfuscation. You may want to interview him before that happens.

Of course, like so many autism tourists, Dr. Abdirahman D Mohamed can best be understood with a snippet from his bio -

" He returned to Minneapolis in July 2008 from a five-year project in Zambia, first as the Senior Technical Advisor for USAID, then as the Country Director for MACEPA, a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

http://www.axismedicalcenter.org/doctors.html

The endorsement "Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation " will be our greatest obstacle to truth and justice in future.

Thanks. And Keep fighting.

Thank you Abdulkadir for letting your voice be heard. The Star Tribune shows absolutely no concern over the tragic and unexplained autism rate among Somali children in Minneapolis. No health official has expressed alarm and demanded answers. It seems that protecting the reputation of the vaccine program is their biggest priority.

Right now the Somali rate of one in every 28 children with autism is affecting parents and schools but in coming years it will become a community problem when the taxpayers have to provide care and services for the Somali children and the thousands of other Minnesota kids with autism as they reach adulthood. I wonder how the Star Tribune and reporters like Maura Lerner will write about funding lifetime care costs for all these people. Will we still be told it's all just a mystery?

Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism

Re: "Is he not under the influence of the pharmaceutical companies just like all other doctors?...I know a few “Somali Doctors” who have kids on the spectrum, approach us for help with diet and other therapies, and then go to their clinics to tell other families that vaccines are perfectly safe, when they themselves do not vaccinate their own kids anymore. What a shame and hypocrisy?.....He has a job to protect, insurance money to collect, big money to make and a career to build, just like many other doctors in America and indeed the whole world."

Dear Abdulkadir Khalif,

It is a tragedy that you came to the knowledge of these harsh realities through your son's regression into autism. I came to this horrific knowledge in a similiar manner when my grandson immediately regressed into autism after his last batch of vaccines including MMR. Although many children have regressed after the MMR alone, I believe that the additional vaccines further increase the damage of the MMR due to the toxic overload of multiple vaccines given at one time. Regardless, I have read accounts of MMR doing severe damage alone, although of course this is actually THREE vaccines together.

Your writing is so full of insight and your statements are so compelling. I remember reading your previous article which brought tears to my eyes. You have a special gift in writing and we need you to represent our children and our families. We THANK YOU very much. I highly recommend that everyone also read your previous article here:

Autism One 2009 - What Somali Immigrants From Minnesota Learned
http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/06/autism-one-2009-what-somali-immigrants-from-minnesota-learned.html

Re: "There is more that unites us than divides us, and autism should be viewed as a threat to our National Security. I say so because at the rate it is increasing, it is a fundamental threat to our very existence as a Nation and a negative influence on our role in the world. So, hiding from the truth and continuing to ignore a fast approaching disaster is a manifestation of a very unpatriotic disposition towards our country – and all this just to protect a few individuals whose aim in life is to line their pockets."

AMEN BROTHER. Somali children are our own Brothers and Sisters (whether they are "American Citizens" or not) These children have sacrificed their lives and future for the sake of the Almighty Vaccines and Almighty God will enact retribution on those guilty of these crimes...Although it would be a blessing to get some human justice here on earth....Sooner rather than Later.

"I will never accept the notion that a doctor who does not know what causes autism can still tell me what does not cause it."

Abdulkadir Khalif - thank you for such a fantastic (and simple) statement.

You nailed it nhokkanen! A dozen or so cases of measles is cause for urgent action, but thousands and thousands of typically developing toddlers regress into autism, and the health department and CDC think we have all the time in the world to slowly consider what may be causing this??? They are willing to consider anything BUT what thousands of parents have told them: that their child's regression came on the heels of a vaccine appointment(aka Well Child appointment). This is criminal negligence, pure and simple.

Is this Hodan Hassan the one slating AW on the Somali affair ?
I don't know if the Hodan Hassan in the link below is the same HH in the article but if it is she is the Local Health boss ,no conflicts of course if it is?.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/hodan-hassan/1a/931/437

Angus Files

Thank you so much for this article. I know exactly what you are going through--I have been there. My son had a reaction at 18 months old that was back in 1991--so I kind of felt alone, back then. There was definitely an instant change in him. He was talking and climbing by 15 months old, but right after the multiple vaccination he received at 18 months,he was never the same. He stopped talking, and was afraid of a lot of things that he use to like doing like going to the store, going inside building. He totally lost interest in going to the park.

He is now 21 years old and he remains unmedicated (prescription medication, that is). I deal with his anxiety attacks and outburst and aggressiveness. I give him b6 and magnesium and has helped a lot.

It is amazing to see the increase in autistic incidence. My son at a young age went through so much blood test to rule out any genetic disease--he tested negative in all. Finally I said enough, I will not have him be probe and suffer anymore.

Thank you for your clarity and honesty. It seems in a short time you have learned much of the truth through the horrible misfortune of your community and the reaction of a nation, along with the lack of treatment or downright mistreatment from standard medical care givers in this country. For those of us that have been in this fight for 10 years or more, we hope you do not have to suffer the same fate as long. It appears to many that the misfortune of your community could hold the answers for a world in crisis, in a snowglobe like bubble there in a relatively isolated and easily studied model.
The lack of those studies, lack of a serious reaction to the devastating numbers, the lack of urgency, shows their hand so clearly. To fail in this regard proves they have no will nor desire to find the answers. And that can only mean one thing, "they already know the answers and have no intention of admitting or revealing them to others". This is not the first time in this nation, nor will it probably be the last.
Please understand though, I am proud to be your fellow citizens and gladly join you in the fight to save all our children and protect all children of the future no matter where they may come from, where they live now, or what affiliations they may hold. Every child is precious and should be valued as such. Keep up the good fight, never back down, and know you are far from alone.

Cool! Author the best! Thank you!

Abdulkadir,
I feel real hope for our country and our children when I read your courageous words. Please continue speaking the truth.

(Your little boy is precious!)

Abdulkadir- Thank you for your courage and insight. I hope you can get the attention of the Star Tribune. For years they’ve stonewalled concerns about vaccine safety and autism. The media and medical establishment treats Somali parents just like non-Somali parents. We vaccinated our kids and “something happens”. Then we’re told it’s just a coincidence, and we’re told it’s an extremely rare reaction, even though we’ve found hundreds and thousands of other parents with almost identical stories and very sick kids. We read the headlines of research vindicating vaccines from causing autism, but when we dig deeper, we find these studies have heavy conflicts of interests like studies from the widely cited Danish/CDC researcher currently under criminal investigation. We are vilified by the media medical establishment when we speak our truth.

The state health commissioner said that the Somali community now has his attention, but he is still hemming and hawing- claiming ignorance, with assurances that vaccines do not cause autism.

Wow Abdulkadir! Your statements are so powerful and so true. I'm so sorry for the way the government and media have let down your community, you have opened yourselves up and asked, begged to be studied and they ignored that precious gift. I entirely agree on the prevalence funding. It's out of control, almost as if they've shifted all of their resources to disproving a rise in autism to sustain their inaction. I'm flabbergasted every time I see more prevalence studies in the research directives. They've wasted years where research could have concentrated on cause and what mechanisms that 'cause' creates in these children so that treatments could be developed. They have never studied the children who have gotten better and asked why. We must not stop fighting to change the course of these studies. Thank you so much for sharing your story, and your words.

When my daughter had an immediate and lasting neurological reaction to her vaccines I thought for sure I'd be referred to a leading edge Johns Hopkins research team. I thought for sure some group of public health authorities somewhere would be on the scene like CSI's. I thought they would want to know all about my daughter's make-up and why she reacted so horribly with screaming an animalistic wild inconsolable scream for 6 hours straight and then off and on for weeks and months. She stopped making eye contact, stopped coo'ing and became a miserable, irritable sleepless, screaming wreck of a baby who stopped loving me back.

No MD ever looked into her reaction. No case report or history was ever taken. Her pediatrician dismissed all of these reactions except the screaming as anecdotal and unimportant. We were referred to no one.

I had to file a vaccine adverse event report with VAERS myself. No health professional seemed to care - except when it came to my hesitation with further vaccines.

If anyone reading this thinks that children and their health and well-being is what vaccines are about, please WAKE UP and know that it's about corporate profits.

If it was about the children, all Somali kids in Minn. who had vaccine reactions and every child who has had a vaccine reaction would have been studied immediately after their reaction in order to make vaccines safer.

They haven't been studied. Not at all. And thousands of parents' reports of extreme changes in children's behavior post vaccination are DISMISSED. Not studied either. Not at all.

Vaccines are DISHONEST MEDICINE, they are promoted as SAFE, but how can that be true in light of the complete absence of any follow-up studies on children who reacted to their vaccines.

Abdulkadir, Thank you for responding so beautifully to such complete ignorance.

My son is 13, and I guess I'm naive, but I really thought (once upon a time) what happened to him would make a difference. He was born in 1998, and what happened concerning vaccines and mercury up until 1999 was bad enough. Any child born around 2000 and after that has suffered so horribly at the hands of the medical community is, in my opinion, the victim of gross negligence and criminal activity. There are no excuses for this disaster. There are no excuses for Abdimalik's pain and suffering. I am so sick and d___ tired of hearing how doctors belittle, guilt and badger mothers who are simply trying to protect their healthy children from questionable medical interventions. The time has passed for doctors, particularly pediatricians, to deny culpability in this crime.

You speak the truth.