Some time ago I went to the doctor with a cold or flu, and afterwards noticed he had put URTI in my notes. I worked out this stands for upper respiratory tract infection. I feel sure that the medical profession have a proper term accurately describing "autism" but they keep it quiet. All this "autism" and "syndromes" are just designed to hide the facts and make the patient/parent think they've got a "diagnosis". Looking in my son's biology textbook I found there's even a proper name for Down's Syndrome, but NO MENTION of "autism"!

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When doctors provide an autism diagnosis, what they're really doing is playing their 'stay out of jail' card.

But that's all going to catch up to them soon.

As someone on "the spectrum" who is on his way out of this morass, I'd like to offer a historical example that might serve to elucidate the situation. In the early 1900's "consumption" (tuberculosis) was endemic. It was so widespread in places like the US and UK, that it had been sexualized. The thin, wan, consumptive woman (cough, cough) was made into an ideal of attractiveness. It necessitated an active process of people saying, "We have got to get out of this," for people to begin to begin to reorient to resolving the problem.

I have another example exactly like this, but in place today. It takes some reading to understand, but the dental braces everyone in this country gets are not "normal". They are the sign of generations of nutritional deficiency. A normal looking face is much broader and rounder, and fits all the teeth including the wisdom teeth. Today, we have normalized crooked teeth and the extraction of wisdom teeth, and we have sexualized a very thin face on both men and women. If you want to read about this, have a look at Weston A Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. That's free online, but you can also buy the book.

John,
I like your analysis of Godlee and Goldacre. You have a different perspective of them because you're on the other side of the ocean. I'm reading the links you sent. Troubling stuff.

Hi Danchi

Unfortunately I feel the key with Godlee and Goldacre is not fence-sitting but something much worse. They send out the signals that they are the honest brokers and yet actually they never challenge the status quo, never break a scandal - they are the guys making a plodding show of bolting the stable after the horse has bolted. They walk over in slow motion. Deer, on the other hand, is just too ridiculous for words.

Psychologists tend to push Aspergers/Autism diagnoses in milder vaccine damage cases and part of the 'treatment' is to create a nice narrative around the (often sh*tty) situation of the client.

You are OK like you are. You are special. You need to love yourself.

Essentially society is being taught to ignore reality with a nice, pleasant and dumbed down version of what is really happening.

Vaccine damage or biomed is of course never discussed. That would be evil. That would be abusive. That would create stigma.

This wouldn't be so much of a problem if the DSM nitwits hadn't combined Asperger's with autism. Everyone in the autism business could predict what was going to happen--that those with mild or made-up diagnoses would try to take over. Mild Asperger's is probably normal, albeit at the bottom end. They have no problems surviving although they don't always thrive. Autism is the condition du jour where individuals who have miniscule problems think they can speak for the nonverbal, and the media aids and abets this nonsense. If the DSM reflected reality, we could shut up the neurodiversity folks in a heartbeat.

There are subtypes of the spectrum. My cousin's child is one of the Happy Being Autistic types. He was extremely odd from birth, but excelled in school and now has a wife and two children. He is my Facebook friend and he discusses the most uncomfortable topics, but I think he is happy. Fortunately he found a lovely wife.

My own daughter was chronically ill. I could not keep that girl off antibiotics and sometimes several rounds. She is profoundly anxious--through the roof. She is divorcing for the second time. Both husbands were drug addicts and didn't work. I guess she missed those cues or maybe she was desperate but she also works and even stays well due to a very strict gluten free diet and organic food. I remember a couple of years ago the New York Times ran an article on how there was no difference between organic and GMO food--it turned out to be a fake study. My reaction, though, was typical of a mother who has lived with chronic illness for twenty five years... Some people can live on a diet of convenience store food with no problem and I'm one of them. But then there are among us some who will eat one thing from a convenience store and be vomiting by the time she gets back to the car. People just don't understand I thought. Every once in a while she'll get zapped and a shaving cut will turn into a large oozing ulcer on her leg. She lives on the outer edges of some spectrum disease and every once in a while slips down a rung. Her doctor told her that if she ever got another vaccine she would be dead.

Vinda is almost my older sister's name Vindy - short for Vincenta.

Her birthday has just gone by - May 01st.
She died when she was 27 years old in a boating accident, back in 1975, along with her husband, and friends.

I loved her with all my heart.

My sister; Had colic when she was born. My Mother was only 17 years old when she had her. My Mother before my sister's birth had only a couple of years earlier had a series of whooping cough vaccines, and every year or two a typhoid shot.

My own experience many years later with a DPT shot - a miscarriage a few weeks after the vaccine, my next pregnancy a year later to a very healthy baby boy, but with the colic, and reacting to every DPT vaccine until he was neurologically damaged. We are all observers and all looking for patterns and I see a pattern here.

My sister in her young short life, had trouble with her monthly, had calcium built up on her three little bones in her ears and went deaf - had to have an operation on both of them. My sister- trouble with her teeth, she had mild mood problems, and her seemingly unwise decisions that she seem to make - was that signs of mental health problems?

There is a lot of Venda we are going to find, and meanwhile we are going to be laughed at cause we blame vaccines on everything -- but the medical mafia did tap into the immune system that does involve everything.

VINDA Autism. I like that the name VINDA captures the reality of the man-made epidemic that Autism is. It makes perfect sense to call it vaccine induced neurological damage associated with Autism. Autism = vaccine induced brain damage = a purely iatrogenic condition that vaccine profiteers refuse to acknowledge at the cost of their well-compensated "public health" positions leading to a resulting dramatic reduction in their earning capacities. Autism = iatrogenically induced, lifetime, crippling and/or debilitating disease in innocent children all due to greed. Disgusting-- and criminal.