Jill Stein, Green Party candidate, has made a mild statement about vaccine safety which is giving pharma the vapors.

The only way either of the presidential candidates will care about the AUTISM epidemic is if it happens to someone in their own families-grandchildren at this point for both. Unfortunately until it happens in someone's own family the problem of the autism epidemic is somebody else's. The lack of concern from the federal government and the federal agencies such as the CDC and the NIH has been a shocking disaster. We the families are left to deal with the looming what will happen to our children when we are gone. We need RESEARCH into a CURE for our immune and neurologically affected children NOW!

I personally get a bit of a knot in the stomach thinking about asking those who created/contributed to this iatrogenic epidemic a question that might suggest (at least in their minds) we want a "solution" from them. We do need the truth to be widely acknowledged though, but we might want to hope (MO) that corporate media, especially TV media, and medical politicians and salesmen be abandoned widely as the source of all wisdom (which is maybe a point of the questions of where are the resources), rather than that they'll lead the way to anything better...not that I want to be so cynical, but I'm a little afraid of what people can be led to thinking is being done "to help."

This type of advocacy though does serve (at least the not so closely affected, so far, who happen to read so much) in warning that autism in one's child or oneself isn't exactly a walk in the park. Del Bigtree had a simple survey conducted at a college where a question was something to the effect, "Which would you rather have, autism or measles," and the majority said autism, because measles can kill you. Whenever I try to comment in a "mainstream" site that research shows a twice to possible 10 times higher mortality for autism (in youth), the comments (with references or not) never see the light of day. The constant awareness of the mortality risk, the more varied depths of morbidity and isolating aspects, often painfully private, are harder to convey, I think, so I really appreciate those who make the effort.

As a country, our understanding of health is so much more a mix of profiteer serving propaganda and censorship than truth that ... I have to take a really deep breath (or several) when I hear things like the results of that survey or read (just now) what Dr. Suzanne Humphries wrote in a couple of paragraphs about an omission in her medical school training from her recent Rising from the Dead publication, p. 36:

Medical school began in August of 1989, the year that 18,193 people were infected with measles in the USA. By 1990, the USA saw 27,672 reported cases of measles. In 1991, measles continued its course in a heavily vaccinated population. The city of Philadelphia, where I was in medical school saw nine deaths from the disease and a total of 9,643 cases reported.

I never heard a word about it until 2015 when Paul Offit went ballistic over 600 countrywide cases in 2014, suggesting that all rights for vaccine choice be removed from parents and that reporters who publicize any debate could go to "journalism jail"[10]. The blitz continued with attorney Arthur Kaplan stating that vaccine hesitant doctors should have their medical licenses removed.[11]

She didn't hear about 9 measles deaths, and more than 9,000 reporated measles cases in Philadelphia where she was studying as a medical student? Did it make the MMR look bad? Well, I guess in 1989 they could recommend additional and maybe accelerated dosing without liability (and quietly).

First, In all the "primary debates" no questions were ever posed regarding the Autism Explosion.

Second, no Media people. today, ever bring up the rocketing of the Autism spectrum when interviewing any candidate.

So now it's Trump (on record connecting vaccinations and autism), and Clinton (who thinks the sky is blue, and vaccines are great).

WE have the Mother of All Catastrophes - our U.S. child mortality and terribly chronic child illnesses setting record highs - taking place right now. AND, NO NEWS ANCHORS TALK ABOUT IT, OR ASKS OUR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES about this?

Our news media has proven they are total whores to Pharma and Govt Agencies such asa CDC and NIH.

It will take a gigantic upheaval, perhaps by Donald Trump, to stop this self-destruction of the United States.

do you really want to know what happens to the adult non-verbal autistic? i am the mother of a 42 year old non-verbal adult autistic son who was for years in a group home. i can tell you the moment the home got help from j&j every one became "psychotic" and dangerous and in need of risperdal and, eventually, put to sleep 18 to 23 hours a day. when the ministry announced that it was sending someone to "inspect" the home, extra staff is sent to clean the house, to cook fun food, to "wake up" the "clients" who would wander around the house smiling silly like inebriated drunks, getting into "frozen" states and if you force them to move, or not, they might attack you unexpectedly, with superhuman strength or bang their heads making holes in walls or scratch bloody their bellies....and that would confirm the ministry that the autistic are a danger to themselves and others plus justify the need for 2 staff for every one around the clock, justify the use of strong anti psychotics...the reality is those funds demanded pay administration, staff are reduced to minimum while clients are kept asleep..... and, they wait for parents to get scared, sick, old, to get full guardianship of their children. yes, caring for the adult autistic is easy profitable business.

This recent article might be of interest:

Autism spectrum disorder in adults: diagnosis, management, and health services development.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940003/

Bob Moffit,

"In any event .. while I realize we can't ask our two Presidential nominees ALL the questions we would like to ask them .. but .. WE CAN ASK THEM IF THEY KNOW OF .. AND .. ARE PREPARED TO DEAL WITH .. THE LOOMING CRISIS IN OUR COUNTRY AND COMMUNITIES WHEN THE PROJECTED 500,000 AUTISTIC CHILDREN BEGIN "GRADUATING IN RISING NUMBERS" .. FROM SCHOOLS DURING THEIR FIRST TERM IN OFFICE?"

Suppose you were able to ask them your question during the first debate. What credibility would you give to any response? Look at the shifting of positions they have done already on the campaign trail. If either one gets in office, what would prevent them from shifting back? Do you really believe Clinton's latest position on TPP?

The attention and emphasis that they have given to drugs in general and vaccines in particular on the campaign trail should tell you where they stand in no uncertain terms. They will stay with the status quo on drugs and vaccines unless and until a sufficient number of voters tell them they want otherwise. In truth, they have responded to your question by their actions and neglect; the words are not necessary!

Thank You Bob for that last comment in your last paragraph.

But since both political parties have been involved that is not likely going to happen.
Oh, if only we did live in a reasonable and sane world - that is exactly the type of parent that would have been up on stage on both parties.

Strange, twisted, corky though - it is all related - if the truth be really known.

Mental health is probably worse in the blacks since it is related to the immune system - and it is -- and all of this is putting blue lives in harms way too.

And blacks I do think are having more trouble - with our immunization policies -- at first I did not think so - just a flux that was caught by the CDC. (Dr Thompson's admission that blacks up to the age of three have a higher incidence of reacting to the MMR than everyone else,; but hard to know since it is all in the trash)

Recently a study that came out that surprised me - that blacks have a worse outcome if diagnosed with melanoma than any other race. Coming in second was Hispanics, coming in third was those with Asian ancestors, and native Americans - and then whites.

They then threw out some theories of whay blacks have a worse outcome and came up with maybe: the medical people may not look, The blacks are poor and may not seek medical attention promptly, the darker skin they are harder to detect, the cancer appears on unlikely places like the souls of their feet and palms of their hands.

I don't think any of these are good explanations since the study said that in allllll stages of the melanoma that the cancer was caught at - the outcomes were worse than all other races.

There is something there that has to do with the immune system and the pigment of the skin ,

It was not lost on me that the pigment of the skin is also deeper inside you than just skin too - it is also at the hypothalamus ( I think that was the part of the lower brain it was in?)

My husband has terrible vitiligo, the immune system is attacking his pigment and leaving places on his skin without any pigment. This summer, I noticed that my childhood friend that made a doctor' and some years ago got another series of Hep B shots - has had a bad thyroid for years - it is worse but also she has developed this same condition as my husband except so far just on her hands.

Anne, Thanks again for focusing on lifespan care. That prominent autism authorities are trying to dismiss the autism epidemic is a disgraceful outrage. President Obama and my senator, Elizabeth Warren, reply to my letters telling me we need to "level the playing field for all handicapped people." They see no need for scientific research to look for causes of any handicap.

In my response to the IACC Request For Information (RFI), I repeated what I submitted for the RFIs in 2008, 2009, and 2010:

Make long-term-care insurance mandatory for every child born. Actuarial scientists might more quickly determine the cause of autism than present-day medical experts.