Note: I live in Connecticut. We lost our school's religious vaccine exemption a few years ago, and have only a medical exemption that's nearly impossible to to get. That said, we have decent budgets for people with autism AND IQ (testable) under 70. For those with IQ that tests over 70? Or those who do not need IQ testing? We are as much as wasteland as any state in the Union. And lack of adult services, employment and housing is a huge problem. We have a crisis.
Our Senator Chris Murphy said something unconscionable during an interview. He said Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wants to kill children - referring to Kennedy's discussion of vaccines. Nothing could be further from the truth. But Yale has a strong influence here in Connecticut, as does the pharmaceutical industry. I think Murphy cares about the Nutmeg state's kids. But he is powerfully influenced by industry too. Massachusetts (our neighbor) Senator Elizabeth Warren has been positively RABID about Kennedy, proclaiming that he wants polio to return at every opportunity. Again. Untrue. Funny, these politicians ONLY focus on Kennedy's vaccination stance, never his myriad other changes in terms of food, water, health. Just the vaccines.
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By Anne Dachel
Sen. Chris Murphy Needs to Start Caring about the Children of Connecticut
During an interview with Dr. Drew Pinsky on the Ingraham Angle on January 6th, Laura Ingraham included a 20 second clip of Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy that blatantly lied about the aims of HHS nominee, Robert Kennedy, Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMNy09fRrvw
Murphy put on a histrionic display of fear over what Kennedy wants to do. It was right out of the Sen. Elizabeth Warren playbook where she announced RFK is “welcoming a return to polio.”
Okay, he wants to ban pharmaceutical advertising. That’s nice.
He also wants to kill our kids by withdrawing vaccines from our schools and taking fluoride out of our drinking water.
Of course any normal person listening to Kennedy’s plans to eliminate the “corporate capture” of our regulatory agencies knows Warren and Murphy are just making up their own narrative.
Why not demand independent double blind studies for vaccines, like any other pharmaceutical product?
Over the past 20 years I’ve written many times about the REALLY BIG LIE ABOUT AUTISM, namely that there aren’t more children with autism today. We’re better at recognizing it; doctors are better at diagnosing it.
If we’re told that over and over, everyone will believe it, and it’s working.
Without exception, whenever there’s a new, higher autism rate in the U.S, someone from the Centers for Disease Control will be there to reassure us that the new numbers don’t represent a true increase.
The mainstream media universally promotes this absurd claim. This has led to seeing autism as just part of neurodiversity, something to be accepted and celebrated every April during Autism Awareness Month.
Instilling this in the minds of the American public is critical for those who deny that the dramatic increase in the childhood vaccine schedule is directly linked to the explosion in the autism rate. IF there has always been autism like this, unrecognized, then giving kids more vaccines has nothing to do with it.
We allow the same people who approve the vaccine schedule and who have endless money ties to the vaccine industry to scratch their collective heads when it comes to what causes autism.
Mainstream news outlets and corporate controlled TV networks can be expected to deny that vaccines do bad things to kids like cause autism, ADHD and a host of autoimmune disorders. After all, pharmaceutical ads pretty much fund news coverage.
Autism, the developmental disorder that officially affects one in every 36 U.S. children, one in every 22 boys and is expected to continue to get even worse, has no known cause, prevention or cure.
Relatively unknown until the end of the 20th century, autism has become a household word. We have a whole month every April where we joyfully light up famous monuments around the world in blue lights in celebration of autism. By now, we all pretty much assume autism will remain a perpetual puzzle.
The autism puzzle
Health officials at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta dutifully give us updates on the autism rate every couple of years, usually coinciding with the festivities of Autism Acceptance Month in April.
NO ONEat the CDC has ever admitted a true increase in the autism rate. It is always due to greater awareness, better diagnosing by doctors.
NO ONE at the CDC can speculate on when exactly doctors will finally figure out the true autism numbers. (HINT: Since the rate in California is one in 22 and in Florida, it’s almost one in 20, it’s easy to see where this is going.)
NO ONE at the CDC is ever worried about autism. Since I’ve been following everything they put out for the past 20 years, I can say conclusively that no one there has used the word “crisis” when talking about autism. “Serious public health concern” is the strongest language I’ve ever seen when it comes to autism.
NO ONE at the CDC has ever been able to show us a comparable rate of autism among adults, but they’re satisfied that they’re out there.
THE LATEST AUTISM NEWS
Just now President Biden signed the reauthorization of the Autism CARES Act.
Tucker Carlson: “I’m about as uncomfortable as I’ve ever been in an interview right now.”
On December 27th, Tucker Carlson aired an interview with attorney Aaron Siri. Siri had recently been demonized by the New York Times as Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s attorney and someone who wanted to end the polio vaccine.
NBC News immediately expressed equal outrage over ending the polio vaccine.
NBC featured Senator Elizabeth Warren attacking Kennedy for wanting to bring back polio along with criticism from Senator Mitch McConnell.
The lawyer in question, Aaron Siri, got a chance to defend himself in the hour and 45 minute interview with Carlson.
All I can say is that what was discussed during the interview can genuinely be called eye-opening for first time listeners and toward the end, it was truly “grotesque,” to quote Carlson.
First of all, what the Times and the other mainstream outlets that followed their lead published was A LIE.
Siri did not call for ending polio vaccine access, and his work had nothing to do with Robert Kennedy.
Thank you to Anne Dachel for sharing this letter from Medicos Pela Vida - Doctors For Life for Kennedy's appointment to head up Health and Human Services. Doctors in Brazil and Latin America that is. Meanwhile, American physicians and politicians are spreading as much disinformation as they can about just two topics from the vast realm of health and human services; polio and measles. Senator Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts is rabidly telling Americans, "You'll lose your smile and you'll say hello to polio" on X. The playbook is worn thin, and yet, the scare tactics have worked in the past.
Mr. Kennedy’s nomination represents an unparalleled chance to restore the health of the American nation and renews confidence in its healthcare institutions.
To the United States Senators of the 119th Congress:
We, the undersigned physicians, citizens of Brazil and Latin American countries, write to urge you to seize this historic opportunity to address the United States’ chronic disease crisis by confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The stakes could not be higher. The chronic disease epidemic now threatens our nation’s future—undermining human capital, compromising national security, and straining our economy to the breaking point. In the early 1980s, fewer than 13% of U.S. children suffered from a chronic condition. Today, that figure has soared to nearly 60%, and an alarming 77% of young adults are ineligible for military service due to health issues. Chronic disease and mental health now account for 90% of the nation’s $4.3 trillion in annual healthcare expenditures. These trends are not just unsustainable—they are existential.
This letter reflects the collective voice of physicians and medical professionals committed to reversing these devastating trends. We believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. possesses the vision, integrity, and leadership essential for this critical moment in public health. His unwavering commitment to scientific transparency and his determination to address the root causes of illness make him uniquely qualified to lead HHS.
Mr. Kennedy’s nomination represents an unparalleled chance to restore the health of the American nation and renews confidence in its healthcare institutions. He has pledged to return federal health agencies to their tradition of evidence-based science, ensuring accountability and transparency at every level. His commonsense policy priorities—including removing harmful substances from our food, water, and medicines—are grounded in the urgent need to combat the chronic disease epidemic and to Make America Healthy Again.
Of course, we could name many more men and women who have been sounding the alarm for decades, often at great personal expense, including every contributor to Age of Autism. But nothing in this world that is important comes without risk, heartache and difficulty. None of which compares to what our dear children who have been vaccine injured face every single day.
In a world where fact and fiction often blur, discerning reality has become increasingly challenging. Artificial intelligence and corrupt media outlets contribute to a landscape where truth is obscured and misinformation reigns. AI-generated deepfake videos and sophisticated AI-driven text generation can create highly convincing but false narratives, making it nearly impossible to tell what is real.
The vaccine movement, in particular, has a propensity for co-option by bad actors with substantial platforms, which can make it difficult for even the most diligent insiders to determine who is friend or foe. We find ourselves in an era of limited hangouts, designed to provoke infighting, while the true power brokers accumulate more wealth and control. These distractions serve to divert our attention away from some of today’s most critical issues—including vaccine-related harms, expanding social control mechanisms and the cleverly disguised war of central bankers on the people.1
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On December 3rd Newsweek put out an opinion piece that was remarkable. (Newsweek also added this disclaimer at the end: “The views expressed in this article are the writer's own,” in case anyone would think that the editorial board supported this kind of thinking.)
The greatest threat to vaccine trust in America isn't Robert F. Kennedy J.—it's the medical establishment itself.
Trust in public health is crumbling. While Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of health and human services is seen as the face of the anti-vaccine movement, the real problem is the medical establishment's own willingness to embrace partisan politics over evidence-based science.
While Ms. Manning didn’t say she supported any of Kennedy’s claims, she did say that the medical establishment has brought this on themselves. Mainstream medicine has become too politicized and has lost public trust, according to Manning.
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As expected, the major cable outlets lost no time in bashing President Trump’s pick to head HHS, Robert Kennedy, Jr.
As someone who’s monitored news coverage of the autism epidemic for the past 20 years, I knew exactly what would happen.
First, concerned news anchors would announce how dangerous it is for the health of Americans, especially children, to have Kennedy in a position of power over U.S. health care. They would label him as “anti-vaccine” and a “conspiracy theorist.” We’d be told that all the science is in, and there is no link between vaccines and things like autism.
Second, they would interview an equally concerned medical “expert” from some prestigious university or hospital who’d recount all the lives saved from communicable diseases because of vaccines. They’d also warn that children will be dying if parents don’t vaccinate.
Dr. Celine Gounder, medical contributor: Vaccines, to be very clear, do not, NOT, cause autism. . . . It’s also a red herring for people whose kids have autism, who they themselves have autism. You’re distracting from the kind of research and treatments that might actually help those kids.
On November 1st, Psychology Today published a report with the title, New Study Reports Dramatic Increase in Autism Prevalence, by Amy Lutz, a medical historian.
This headline wasn’t really alarming. By now, everyone is used to 20 years of always increasing rates of autism with no real explanation. This was no different.
We were reminded that rate increases are expected.
JAMA article confirms what we already knew about autism. But what does it mean?
A new study published in JAMA reported that autism prevalence dramatically increased between 2011-2022.
That autism prevalence has been steadily increasing is not controversial, and it is not news. Hotly contested, however, is why. The Kaiser Permanente paper briefly references some of the more common explanations, including increased awareness, environmental factors, changes in screening practices, diagnostic criteria and others, but doesn’t pick a side: “We didn’t have the data to do that,” Grosvenor told me. “The goal of our study wasn’t to determine the possible causes.”
More autism among the youngest
But his team’s findings do problematize some of these theories. For example, the paper reports a 352 percent increase in the number of autistic children aged 0-4 between 2011 and 2022. . . .
Enough awareness, it’s all about acceptance
By 2012, the public was so aware that The Autistic Self Advocacy Network was calling to replace “Autism Awareness” with “Autism Acceptance.”
It’s very difficult to imagine there was much room for awareness to increase over the decade under study, never mind that it could increase enough to cause autism prevalence to more than quadruple in the youngest age group.
Still no answers
[Lead author of the study, Luke]Grosvenor considers this magnitude of increase too great to be accounted for by just one factor. When I ask him whether he thinks the increased prevalence might represent a real and dramatic increase in the number of autistic children, he acknowledges, “We can’t rule that out as a possibility.”
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s amazing victory in the 2024 election, I feel like it is also a victory for THE TRUTH ABOUT AUTISM.
President Trump has promised that Robert Kennedy, Jr. will have a leading role in the movement to MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN by focusing on the chronic disease epidemic. For so many of us parents, this means honestly addressing what autism is doing to America’s children.
My son John is 38 and has mild autism. When he was diagnosed in second grade, the school system had to get a psychologist from Minneapolis to come a hundred miles to Chippewa Falls, WI to diagnose him because, as we were told, autism was such a rare disorder.
My town is around 14,000 people, and we learned that John was probably the only child here who had autism. That was a devastating blow to my husband and me. I was a teacher myself, and I had never known a student with autism. We felt totally alone.
I did lots of research and basically learned that autism is a genetic disorder. We found a local MD who told us that my husband and I were genetically mismatched, and that’s why John had autism.
Then incredibly, things changed in the years that followed. I kept reading about more and more children with autism. Starting after 2000, the rate kept making enormous gains every couple of years, always attributed to “better diagnosing,” “expanded spectrum” and “greater awareness.”
Among the younger students, suddenly autism became a recognized disorder. We were all pretty much convinced that autism had always been here like this, we just called it something else. We were told that parents used to keep these children at home, or they were previously put in institutions.
At first, as the increases showed no signs of slowing down, there were hearings on Capitol Hill, and people seemed willing to listen to parents who talked about how their normally developing children lost learned skills and regressed after routine childhood vaccinations.
Reporters like Sharyl Attkisson honestly covered the link between vaccines and autism. In 2011 it was revealed that the government had secretly compensated over 80 vaccine injury cases that resulted in a child becoming autistic.
What followed was damage control by those with strong financial ties to the vaccine program. Medical organizations, federal health officials and the media, all under the power and control of the pharmaceutical industry, massively shut down any discussion of a link between vaccines and autism. Pharma-funded researchers produced easily manipulated population studies all showing no link between vaccines and autism. The media denounced anyone who wouldn’t believe that the science was in, calling them anti-vaccine and dangerous.
Autism was left as a mystery. Endless studies came out linking the disorder to the mother, much like the claim of a link to the “refrigerator mom” of the 1950s and 1960s.
20 years of phony science
Blame-the-mom studies found associations between autism and old moms, moms who married old dads, fat moms, drinking moms, smoking moms, moms on drugs, moms who lived too close to freeways, moms who had babies too close together, moms on antidepressants and most recently, moms who expose their children to plastic particles while pregnant.
All this research didn’t prove anything, and it was never meant to. NIH and other funders were happy to give grants to dead-end studies like these. I like to call it all, autism busywork because it made the public think that officials wanted to understand autism, which of course, they had no intention of doing.
Then in 2008, Autism Speaks launched the first April, Autism Awareness Month to further normalize and celebrate the disorder. Places like Niagara Falls, the Empire State Building, the White House, the Sydney Opera House in Australia and the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are among the 16,000 iconic places around the world that go blue each April in recognition of autism.
Awareness of autism has now become acceptance of autism, no matter what heights the rate eventually reaches. It’s all good. Places around the world are now vying to become recognized as “autism friendly” and “Certified Autism Centers,” which actually makes good sense business-wise considering the never-ending increases in autism.
What’s missing of course is any recognition that autism a devastating disorder that robs a child of normal development and impacts the entire family. Every April, when there’s all kinds of feel-good news coverage of autism, we see lots of kids who look pretty typical, interacting with teachers and therapists. It’s easy to believe autism has always been here like this.
Missing is any reporting on the third of children on the spectrum who experience unexplainable regression or the third of children who are clinically non-verbal or the third of children who engage in self-harm or the third of children with autism who are prone to escaping from their caregivers.
We don’t hear about the parents caring for adult non-verbal children still in diapers. These are the people increasingly desperate about what will happen to their children after they are no longer able to care for them.
Here is an article I wrote 10 years ago that illustrates exactly what I mean. I wrote this after I found the story of Brandon Guppy and his mother, Michelle, and was so moved by the photo of the two of them.
The photo really needs no words. It's a mother with her disabled son. The young man in diapers is the side of autism we never see in feel good stories during April, Celebrate Autism Month. The photo made me think of Michelangelo's Pieta, the Virgin Mary grieving as she holds the body of her crucified son, Jesus. Or maybe one of the Mary Cassatt paintings of a mother and child. The image of this maternal bond is universal. It's also heartbreaking when it involves someone who was left like this because of the vaccines he received as baby. . .
I interviewed Michelle, and she told me about how her healthy baby boy declined after each round of vaccinations ending up profoundly disabled. I recorded her sharp criticism of the media for covering up the truth about autism. I would ask everyone to hit the link and read what she had to say.
I think that the Jama report is meant to prepare us for yet another leap ahead in the autism rate this April. One in 36 could easily become one in 30 or one in 25.
Currently the autism rate in Australia is one in every 25 children.
In Scotland, it’s one in every 23 children.
In California, it’s one in every 22 children.
In Ireland, it’s one in every 21 children.
And in Northern Ireland, it’s one in every 20 children.
None of the above official rates raised any alarms when they were faithfully reported in the press over the last two years. And when our new rate comes out, U.S. health officials will briefly mention it and quickly move on.
THINGS HAVE TO CHANGE before every child born eventually ends up on the autism spectrum. With Trump back in the White House and Kennedy in a position of power, it’s time to end the autism lies. We need to admit that what we call autism is vaccine damage. We have to stop the epidemic NOW.
Note: We have endorsed health since the day we launched some 18 years ago. MAHA is deep in our wheelhouse. We do not endorse candidates, we're not endorsing Trump in this post. If VP Harris announces her plan to combat the poor health of American children, we will be happy to share. I did a search for Kamala Harris Autism on Google. The primary hit was a speech she made about disability in 2022 that began, "I am Kamala Harris and my pronouns are "She" and "Her." What's ironic about that is many of our children with autism mangle their pronouns. Mine sure do.
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By Anne Dachel
FOX NEWS: RFK, Jr. and Calley Means
Getting the word out about BIG PHARMA, BIG FOOD AND BIG AG
WHY ARE KIDS BEING POISONED AND THEN DRUGGED FOR PROFIT?
WHY IS 70 PERCENT OF OUR KIDS’ DIET ULTRA PROCESSED FOOD, AND THEN 40 PERCENT OF TEENS ARE ON A PHARMACEUTICAL?
As the election gets closer, FoxNews is giving airtime to those who are planning to help Trump MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN.
In separate interviews, Calley Means and Robert Kennedy, Jr. explained how bad health outcomes are for Americans. Specific examples were given regarding the control corporations have over our regulatory agencies.
As someone who’s written about the corruption, collusion and cover-up rampant at the FDA and CDC for over 20 years, the added scandal of the poisonous food Americans consume daily confirms that we have to dismantle the regulatory agencies. Their only job has been to promote the interests of the industries they’re supposed to oversee.
Fox: Former President Trump said he’ll work with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to make American healthy again , if he’s elected, with a focus on improving the country’s metabolic health.
Clip from Joe Rogan interviewing Donald Trump
Rogan: I know you’re aware of Calley and Casey Means. One of the things that they pointed out, and this is a very important thing for people to understand is what a lot of these drugs do is they act to somehow or another to mitigate the effects of poor metabolic health. But most of these problems that people are suffering from wouldn’t exist if we put an emphasis on metabolic health.
Fox anchor: Here to discuss is TruMed co-founder, Calley Means.
Age of Autism reported on the shocking development of autism in the Minnesota Somali immigrant population 16 years ago. Award winning investigative author David Kirby wrote about the looming problem. When you try to read his report on HuffPo, that photo above is what you get.
Parents who had no word for the diagnosis in their language were rocked when their children changed. From this we know. PBS reports yet additional increases in the numbers. We tried to warn. We tried to help. A certain subset cut us off at the knees, instead seeing a money grab. A grab which has lead to fraud and thievery. And a generation of children harmed.
There was an absolutely shocking report from PBS News on the rate of autism among the Somali population in Minnesota. The numbers are staggering, but I can predict that NO OFFICIAL will do anything to address this.
This report should be of immediate concern to everyone at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Here are some of the highlights.
PBS News Hour co-anchor, Amna Nawaz:
In recent years, the prevalence of autism has risen significantly across all populations in the U.S.
Diagnoses are more common among children of color, but one group, Somali Americans, is seeing an alarming increase.
Fred De Sam Lazaro has this report from Minnesota, home to the largest Somali community in America.
Anisa Hagi-Mohamed, Parent Activist:
I have three children, two girls and a boy. And they have all been diagnosed autistic. Two of my children are verbal. One is partially verbal. And we speak, eat, sleep autism.
Fred De Sam Lazaro:
For Anisa Hagi-Mohamed and husband Duraan Ali (ph), this is one of few outings the family does together in a routine otherwise individually tailored for their 8-, 6-, and 3-year-old children..
On Sundays, the kids get to play in a safe space, set aside just for autistic children. Hagi-Mohamed was a teacher. She has a degree in linguistics, but has devoted her life to advocating for autistic children in the Somali American community.
Fred De Sam Lazaro:
. . .Autism is not widely understood in the Somali community, even though its become alarmingly prevalent.
Jennifer Hall-Lande, Minnesota Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network:
Overall rates in our 4-year-olds of one in 53. And what we were seeing in our Somali 4-year-olds were rates of one in 16.
Melissa Wervey Arnold is the Chief Executive Officer for the Ohio Chapter of the AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics. She recently posted on the open, public part of her Facebook page a photo of a gift basket she made for end of school year, not an AAP gift per se - "orange you glad..." was the theme. Clever, as we all remember the old knock knock joke from childhood. However, every bit of food and drink in the basket was completely contrary to the goal of children's or anyone's health. An Oompa Loompa would have run away screaming.
Sesame Street had a ditty to promote fruits and veggies that went, "I eat the colors of the rainbow." Unfortunately, American children eat the artificial colors of the rainbow from the moment they wake until they brush their teeth (or what's left of them) before bed. Robert Kennedy, Jr. has embarked on a campaign promoting health - and his recent focus was to educate Americans about the harm of chemical colors in our food. At AofA, we've been writing about the topic since our inception, including the scandalous use of Skittles by ABA therapists as an incentive for good behavior. Like giving a diabetic a cookie for taking his insulin. Jabberwocky. Bass ackwards.
A childhood attached to obesity, developmental delays (even if CDC moves the goal line) asthma inhalers, anti anxiety meds, epipens, glucose monitors & special education is NOT what childhood should be. We KNOW this. The problem affects every American, Communist to Ultra Conservative. The solutions are bi-tri-quad-quint-partisan.
In this short video, Robert Kennedy, Jr. explains how the unregulated food industry is poisoning our children. We have the sickest kids on the planet, and things have to change.
Enough Is Enough
Sep 25, 2024
The Democrats, who claim to be all about health care have stood by watching other countries ban these poisons that make our kids sick. Enough is enough. President Trump and I are going to stop the mass poisoning of American children.
VIDEO 5:44
Robert Kennedy, Jr.:
This is what most Americans innocently put into their bodies these days, and most alarmingly, into the bodies of their children.
And it’s no coincidence that Americans die earlier than Canadians or Germans or Italians or Japanese or Koreans or Australians or most any other comparable country.
And it wasn’t always that way. Until the early 1990s, our life expectancy was the same or better than other developed countries.
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It was an interview from a radio station in Donegal. The parents of a family with four young adults with autism talked about the utter lack of support once autistic children leave school.
Sept 13, 2024, OceanFM: Mountcharles family with four autistic young adults say supports are completely inadequate
Patrick and Maria Brogan of Mountcharles in Donegal are the parents of four autistic young adults – Marty, Cassie, Daniel and Patrick. They’ve expressed their absolute frustration at the lack of supports and facilities in place for them, and say they’re considered merely as ‘add-ons’ in the eyes of the State
In the course of 12 minute interview was this shocking exchange between the father, Patrick Brogan, and the OceanFM host.
Epidemic increases
Patrick: It’s estimated that 23 percent of the child population, at the present moment, has a diagnosis of autism, ADD, ADHD, and the Belfast Trust has the prevalence and school age children with autism and Aspergers. And they estimate it to be one in 14.
One in 14 is two out of every big class and every national school in the county of Donegal.
There’s something badly wrong. Autism was not there, and the numbers—
Why so much autism?
OceanFM:Was it not there, or did we just not hear about it?
Patrick: Well, they changed the diagnosis 20 years ago, and the diagnoses have only gone up. So if they changed it to make it a broader range, well that should have compensated for the numbers, but the numbers have only gone up.
So there’s something wrong. I don’t know what’s causing it. It’s gone up at a steady rate. Let it be Wi-Fi signal, let it be food, let it be the water, phone signals, chemicals.
NO QUESTIONS ALLOWED!
I don’t know what’s causing it, but we as parents find it impossible to ask questions.
OceanFM:That’s one of your main frustrations, that you can’t ask questions.
What do you mean by that? Ask questions of whom? And what questions?
Patrick: Through the years, because of having the epilepsy with the children and all that, I’ve been in different hospitals at different times, and I often have conversations with different doctors, different consultants.
And four or five them told me, they can’t talk about it. If they do, they’re going to be struck off.
What’s that about? Why would they say something like that at the end of the day? . . .
So doctors in Ireland are NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT AUTISM OR THEY WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS.
Of course this is part of the massive cover-up and denial that has been swirling around autism for two decades, and it’s not just in Ireland. We’ve all been steadily brainwashed to believe that every stunning increase in the autism rate is thanks to better diagnosing by doctors and no real increase at all.
Note: Last week, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Nicole Shanahan tabled their run for the White House. We've known Robert for many years; he's no Johnny Come Lately on the decline of pediatric health. He IS a lightning rod, politically. Rather than focus on the immense hatred toward him, the worst of it coming from his own family, our focus is on his unwavering fight for our children. His mission is our mission. Like Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Robert does not have a child with autism. Both men have courage and heart, even at their own expense.
Our Anne Dachel is the queen of transcripts. Below is Robert's portion of his announcement that talks about his dedication to pediatric health in the USA. Feel free to let us know if you feel about Kennedy's throwing in with Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump. Or if you think Vice President Harris will craft a better future for children.
We're neutral in that we do not endorse. Kennedy is stalwart. Trump has a lot of baggage and many broken promises. Harris and Walz, himself Dad to a disabled son, may fund programs of value, but what of health choice issues? Discuss nicely. It's going to be a long road to November.
Bobby Kennedy spent the last thirty minutes of his announcement suspending his campaign on the chronic disease crisis in America. His words were genuine and moving. He told us he was putting children first. By suspending his campaign, he would be able to put this catastrophe into the forefront of political arena. News sources that totally ignored him previously, now have to at least acknowledge his presence.
1:21:25
Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place. Primarily, and these are the three causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent and now to throw my support to President Trump.
The causes were free speech, the war in Ukraine and the war on our children. . . .
Less than two hours after President Trump narrowly escaped assassination, Calley Means called me on my cell phone, I was in Las Vegas. Calley is arguably the leading advocate for food safety, for soil regeneration and for ending the chronic disease epidemic that is destroying America’s health and ruining our economy.
Calley has exposed the insidious corruption at the FDA and the NIH, the HHS and the USDA that has caused the epidemic.
Calley had been working on and off for my campaign, advising me on those subjects since the beginning. And those subjects have been my primary focus for the last 20 years.
I was delighted when Calley told me that day that he had also been advising President Trump.
He told me President Trump was anxious to talk to me about chronic disease and other subjects, and to explore avenues of cooperation.
He asked if I would take a call from the President. President Trump telephoned me a few minutes later, and I met with him the following day. A few weeks later, I met again with President Trump and his family members and close advisors in Florida.
In a series of long, intense discussions, I was surprised to discover that we are aligned on many key issues. In those meetings, he suggested that we join forces as a Unity Party. We talked about Abraham Lincoln’s team of rivals.
That arrangement would allow us to disagree publicly and privately and furiously, if need be on issues over which we differ, while working together on the existential issues upon which we are in concordance. . . .
We are aligned with each other on other key issues . . .ending the childhood disease epidemic. . . unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies . . .
. . . Vice President Harris decline to meet or even to speak with me.
Suspending my candidacy is a heart-rending for me, but I’m convinced that it’s the best hope for ending the Ukraine War and ending the chronic disease epidemic that is eroding our nations vitality from the inside, and for finally protecting free speech.
I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children, above all things.
In case some of you don’t realize how dire the condition is of our children’s health and chronic disease in general, I would urge you to view Tucker Carlson’sinterview with Calley Means and his sister, Dr. Casey Means, who is a top graduate of her class at Stanford Medical School
This is an issue that affects all of us far more directly and urgently than any culture war issue and all the other issues that we obsess on and that are tearing apart our country.
This is the most important issue, therefore it has the potential to bring us together. So let me share a little bit about why I feel it is so urgent.
Today two-thirds—we pay, we spend more health care than any country on earth, twice what they pay in Europe, and yet we have the worst health outcomes of any nation in the world.
We’re about seventy-ninth in health outcomes, behind Costa Rica and Nicaragua and Mongolia and other countries.
Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have, and during the COVID epidemic, we had the highest body count of any country in the world.
We had 16 percent of the COVID deaths, and we only have 4.2 percent of the world’s population.
And CDC says that’s because we are the sickest people on earth. We have the highest chronic disease rate on earth and for the average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases.
So these were people who had immune system collapse, who had mitochondrial dysfunction, and no other country has anything like this.
Two-thirds of American adults and children suffer from chronic health issues.
50 years ago, that number was less than one percent. So we’ve gone from one percent to 66 percent.
In America, 74 percent of Americans now are overweight or obese, and 50 percent of our children.
120 years ago, when somebody was obese, they were sent to the circus. There were case reports done about them. Obesity was almost unknown.
In Japan, childhood obesity rate is three percent, compared to 50 percent here.
Half of Americans have pre-diabetes or Type II diabetes. When my uncles was President and I was a boy, juvenile diabetes was effectively nonexistent.
A typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes during his entire career, 40 or 50 year career.
Today one out of ever three kids who walks through his office door is diabetic or pre diabetic.
And the mitochondrial disorder that causes diabetes is also causing Alzheimer’s, which is now classified as diabetes, and it’s costing this country more than our military budget every year.
There’s been an explosion of neurological illness that I never saw as kid, ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, Tourette’s syndrome, narcolepsy, ASD, Aspegers, autism.
In the year 2000, rate was one in 1,500. Now autism rates in kids are one in 36, according to CDC nationally.
Nobody’s talking about this.
One in every 22 kids in California has autism. and this is a crisis: that 77% of our kids cannot or are too disabled to serve in the United States military. What is happening to our country, and why isn't this in the headlines every single day?
There's nobody else in the world that is experiencing this. This is only happening in America. About 18%, and by the way, you know, there has been no change in diagnosis, which the industry sometimes likes to say, there has been no change in screening. This is a change in incidence.
In my generation of 70-year-old men, the odds and rates [of autism] are about one in 10,000. In my kids’ generation, one in 34.
I'll repeat: in California, 1 in 22. Why are we letting this happen? Why are we allowing this to happen to our children? These are the most precious assets that we have in this country. How can we let this happen to them?
About 18% of American teens now have fatty liver disease. That's like one out of every five. That disease, when I was a kid, only affected late-stage alcoholics who were elderly. Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the young and the old. Young adult cancers are up 79%.
One in four American women is on antidepressant medication, 40% of teen teens have a mental health diagnosis, and 15% of high schoolers are on Adderall, and half a million children on SSRIs.
So what's causing this suffering? I'll name two culprits. First and the worst is ultra-processed food. About 70% of American children's diet is ultra-processed. That means industrial manufactured in factories. These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains, and seed oils.
Laboratory scientists who have formed many of them formerly worked for the cigarette industry, which purchased all the big food companies in the 1970s and ‘80s, deployed thousands of scientists to figure out chemicals, new chemicals, to make the food more addictive. And these ingredients didn't exist 100 years ago.
Humans aren't biologically adapted to eat them. A hundred of these chemicals are now banned in Europe but are ubiquitous in American processed foods. The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicine, and our environment. Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs, and toxic waste permeate every cell of our bodies.
This assault on our children's cells and hormones is unrelenting. And to name just one problem, many of these chemicals increase estrogen. Because young children are ingesting so many of these hormone disruptors, America's puberty rate is now occurring at age 10 to 13, which is six years earlier than girls were reaching puberty in 1900.
Our country has the earliest puberty rates of any continent on the earth, and no, this isn't because of better nutrition. This is not normal. Breast cancer is also estrogen-driven, and it now strikes one in eight women. We are mass-poisoning all of our children and our adults.
Considering the grievous human cause of this tragic epidemic of chronic disease, it seems almost crass to mention the damage it does to our economy. But I'll say it is crippling the nation's finances. When my uncle was president, our country spent zero dollars on chronic disease. Today, government healthcare spending is almost all for chronic disease, and it's double the military budget, and it is the fastest-growing budget item in the federal budget.
Chronic disease costs more to the economy as a whole, costs at least $4 trillion—five times our military budget. And that's a 20% drag on everything we do and everything we aspire to.
Poor and minority communities suffer disproportionately. People who worry about DEI or about, you know, bigotry of any kind, this dwarfs anything. We are poisoning the poor. We are systematically poisoning minorities across this country. Industry lobbyists have made sure that most of the food stamp lunch program, about 70% of food stamps, and about 70% or 77% of school lunches are processed foods.
There's no vegetables. There's nothing that you would wanna eat. We are just poisoning the poor citizens, and that's why they have the highest chronic disease burden of anybody, any demographic in our country, and the highest in the world. The same food industry lobbied to make sure that nearly all agricultural subsidies are owed to commodity crops that are the feedstock of the processed food industry.
These policies are destroying small farms, and they're destroying our soils. We give, we give about, I think, eight times as much in subsidies to tobacco than we do to fruits and vegetables. It makes no sense. If we want a healthy country, the good news is that we can change all this.
We can change it very, very quickly. America can get healthy again. To do that, we need to do three things. First, we need to root out the corruption in our health agencies. Second, we need to change incentives in our healthcare system. And third, we need to inspire Americans to get healthy again.
Eighty percent of NIH grants go to people who have conflicts of interest. These are the people virtually everybody who sits — you know who Joe Biden just appointed a new panel to NIH to decide food recommendations.
And they're all people who are from the industry. They're all people who are from the processed food companies. They're deciding what Americans, you know, hear is healthy. And the recommendations on the food pyramid, and what goes to our school lunch programs, which would go to the, you know, the program, the SNAP program, the food stamp programs, they're all corrupted and conflicted individuals.
These agencies, the FDA, USDA, and CDC — all of them are controlled by giant for-profit corporations. Seventy-five percent of the FDA's funding doesn't come from taxpayers. It comes from pharma. And pharma executives and consultants and lobbyists cycle in and out of these agencies. With President Trump's backing, I'm gonna change that.
We're gonna staff these agencies with honest scientists and doctors who are free from industry funding. We're gonna make sure the decisions of consumers, doctors, and patients are informed by unbiased science. A sick child is the best thing for the pharmaceutical industry. When American children or adults get sick with a chronic condition, they’re put on medication for their entire life.
Imagine what will happen when Medicare starts paying for Ozempic, which costs $1,500 a month—and it's being recommended for children as young as 6—all for a condition, obesity, that is completely preventable and barely even existed 100 years ago. And 74% of Americans are obese.
The cost if all of them took their Ozempic prescription is $3 trillion a year. This is a drug that is made by Novo Nordisk, the biggest company in Europe. It’s a Danish company, and the Danish government does not recommend it. It recommends change in diet to treat obesity and exercise. And in our country, the recommendation now is for Ozempic to children at age 6.
Novo Nordisk is the biggest company in Europe, and virtually its entire value is based upon its projections of what it's gonna sell, of the Ozempic it's gonna sell to America. And we have — the food lobbyists have a bill in front of Congress today that is backed by the White House, backed by Vice President Harris and President Biden, to to allow this to happen.
This $3 trillion cost is gonna bankrupt our country. For a fraction of that amount, we could buy organic food for every American family, three meals a day, and eliminate diabetes altogether. We're gonna bring healthy food back to school lunches. We're gonna stop subsidizing the worst foods with our agricultural subsidies.
We're gonna get toxic chemicals out of our food. We're gonna reform the entire food system. And for that, we need new leadership in Washington because, unfortunately, both the Democrats and the Republican parties are in cahoots with the Big Food producers, Big Pharma and Big Ag, which are among the DNC's major donors. Vice President Harris has expressed no interest in addressing this issue. Four more years of Democratic rule will complete the consolidation of corporate and the neocon power, and our children will be the ones who suffer most.
I got involved with chronic disease 20 years ago, not because I chose to or wanted to. It was essentially thrust upon me. It was an issue that should have been central to the environmental movement. I was a central leader at that time, but it was widely ignored by all the institutions, including the NGOs, who should have been protecting our kids against toxins. It was an orphaned issue, and I had a weakness for orphans.
I watched generations of children get sicker and sicker. I had 11 siblings, and I have seven kids myself. I was conscious of what was happening in their classrooms and to their friends, and I watched these sick kids, these damaged kids — in that generation, almost all of them are damaged. And nobody in power seemed to care or to even notice.
For 19 years, I prayed every morning that God would put me in a position to end this calamity. The chronic disease crisis was one of the primary reasons for my running for president, along with ending the censorship and the Ukraine war. It's the reason I've made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump.
This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes my wife and my children and my friends. But I have the certainty that this is what I'm meant to do, and that certainty gives me internal peace even in storms. If I'm given the chance to fix the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production, I promise that within two years, we will watch the chronic disease burden lift dramatically.
We will make Americans healthy again. Within four years, America will be a healthy country. We will be stronger, more resilient, more optimistic, and happier. I won't fail in doing this. Ultimately, the future, however it happens, is in God's hands and in the hands of the American voters and those of President Trump. If President Trump is elected and honors his word, the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and bankrupts the country will disappear. This is a spiritual journey for me.
I reached my decision through deep prayer, through a hard-nosed logic, and I asked myself, “What choices must I make to maximize my chances to save America's children and restore national health?” I felt that if I refused this opportunity, I would not be able to look myself in the mirror, knowing that I could have saved lives of countless children and reversed this country's chronic disease epidemic.
I'm 70 years old. I may have a decade to be effective. I can't imagine that a President Harris would allow me or anyone to solve these dire problems. After eight years of President Harris, any opportunity for me to fix the problem will be out of my reach forever.
President Trump has told me that he wants this to be his legacy. I'm choosing to believe that this time he will follow through. His son, his biggest donors, his closest friends all support this objective. My joining the Trump campaign will be a difficult sacrifice for my wife and children but worthwhile if there's even a small chance of saving these kids.
Ultimately, the only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other. That's why I launched my campaign to unify America.
My dad and uncle made such an enduring mark on the character of our nation, not so much because of any particular policies that they promoted, but because they were able to inspire profound love for our country and to fortify our sense of ourselves as a national community held together by ideals.
They were able to put their love into the intentions and hearts of ordinary Americans and to unify a national populist movement of Americans, blacks and whites, Hispanics, urban and rural Americans. They inspired affection and love and high hopes and a culture of kindness that continue to radiate among Americans in their memory.
That's the spirit on which I ran my campaign and that I intend to bring into the campaign of President Trump. Instead of vitriol and polarization, I will appeal to the values that unite us, the goals that we could achieve if only we weren't at each other's throats. The most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children.
If we all unite around that issue now, we can finally give them the protection, the health, and the future that they deserve. Thank you all very much.
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By Anne Dachel
England/Wales: Number of children receiving disability support "more than doubles" in decade
AUTISM and ADHD are behind the surge
There is a national crisis unfolding in the U.K., and people seem surprised that it’s happening.
I’m referring to the disastrous statistics just published showing that over the last decade the number of children in England and Wales receiving disability benefits more than doubled. The reason behind the increase is AUTISM and ADHD.
Guardian: Warning over rise in children on disability benefits in England and Wales
In a new report, the Resolution Foundation thinktank points out that the number of children whose families receive disability living allowance (DLA) has more than doubled in the last decade, to 682,000.
The biggest shift has come among teenagers, with 8% of all 15-year-olds receiving DLA last year, up from 5% in 2013. . . .
The thinktank says the increase in DLA payments has been “almost entirely driven by awards made to children whose main condition is either a learning difficulty, behavioural disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)”.
Understanding and diagnoses of such conditions have increased rapidly in recent decades. A study by UCL researchers found a 20-fold increase in diagnoses of ADHD between 2000 and 2018. Another paper found that autism diagnoses had shot up by 787% over the 20 years from 1998. . . .
DLA, which includes a “mobility” and a “care” component, is worth between £28.70 [$37] and £184.30 [$240] a week, depending on how much additional help the child is deemed to need.
With claims rising sharply, the total cost of paying the benefit has increased from £1.9bn [$2.5B] to £4bn[$5B] in real terms over the past 10 years.
The spending watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast that the cost of all disability benefits will increase by almost half over the next five years, to £58bn [$75B].
Independent: Surge in young people claiming disability benefits, research suggests
A study from the Resolution Foundation found 1.2 million children across England and Wales are living with a disability. . . .
The think tank said four in five children receiving the Child DLA had been diagnosed with a learning difficulty, behavioural disorder, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
There are even calls for the government to find out why there’s been this dramatic increase.
Ms Murphy said the Government needed to focus on tackling the underlying prevalence of disability.
“It is understandable that politicians want to reduce the rise in disability benefit spending,” she said.
“But to do that they will need to understand and address the root causes of rising disability among children.”
Still, the claim of greater awareness is out there.
A Government spokesperson said: “We are committed to ensuring parents with children with disabilities are supported fairly.
“Awareness of neurodevelopmental conditions has increased over the past decade with a rise in the numbers of children seeking formal diagnoses reflected in those seeking support.”
. . .Ms Murphy added: "For example, the number of children being prescribed medication for ADHD and for conditions like anxiety and depression has increased quite significantly.
"And we've seen some quite troubling trends. For example, an increase in the number of children being admitted to hospital in relation to self-harm.
Since news outlets long ago stopped caring about the nonstop increases in disabled children globally, I wouldn’t expect them to understand what’s really happening here.
IF they were paying attention, members of the press in the U.K. would have noticed the nonstop increases in special needs students everywhere in the country over the last two decades.
On my site, LossOfBrainTrust, https://www.lossofbraintrust.com/ most of the news reports are from the U.K., and I can’t even begin to give examples of the disaster that is special education in that country, there are so many. There are literally thousands.
I cite routine stories announcing yet another new autism/special school. There are the reports on “increased demand” and “more complex needs” out every day in the news. Kids are on waiting lists for years just for assessments, followed by waiting lists for services. Local councils are facing bankruptcy over the cost of special education.
Without fail there is never anyone asking where all these disabled children are coming from. The only solutions talked about are more funding and more special needs places.
Autism is never a problem
Just like in the U.S., members of the press in the U.K. call for celebrating autism awareness and acceptance every April. They credit the increases in autism to greater awareness of a disorder that’s always been around. They promote neurodiversity and inclusion and are never alarmed over the rate increases.
Across the U.K. something is terribly wrong with the developmental health of children.
Eight months ago the Glasgow Herald announced that 37 percent of Scottish students have special needs.
This scenario might sound far-fetched, but it is in fact just average. Figures published by the Scottish Government this week reveal that the number of children with additional support needs (ASN) has reached a record high of 259,036, or 36.7 per cent of pupils.
Last month the press inWalesreported that 48 percent of children had “some form of additional learning needs.”
Where was the national alarm over these numbers?
And the cause of the explosion in special needs students is AUTISM.
In 2022, Schools Week in the U.K. published, SEND isn’t on the precipice – it’s tipped over the edge
Over half of the children and young people in special schools have a primary or secondary need of autism. For children in early years specialist settings, the figure is 65 per cent….
As far as autism is concerned, statistics are truly catastrophic in the U.K.
In May, 2023, the BBC reported thatNorthern Irelandhad the highest rate of autism in the world.
Take a listen in the first video - the doctor catches herself saying, "ABNORMAL" development and quickly changes her language to "DIFFERENT." That's the story, morning glory. Autism MUST be called a difference. and doctors have been told as much. Oh, and man-made toxic load during pregnancy might cause autism.
By Anne Dachel
AUSTRALIA: Is BPA exposure in utero linked to autism? “World-first study” finds a risk
At last, there is something substantive to say about why there is so much autism in kids today. As the rate of autism continues to climb, it’s getting harder and harder to sell the tired claim that we’ve always had autism around like this, but doctors didn’t know what it was until recently.
Research has, over the past two decades, linked the development of autism to bad moms. I’ve long talked about the dead-end studies showing an “association” between the behavior of mothers and autism in children: moms who are old, fat, drinking, smoking, having babies too close together, having preemies, living too close to freeways, taking antidepressants, etc.
It was a bit of a stretch to say that any of those findings could explain the world-wide explosion in the rate of autism to now three to five percent of children and growing.
At last, research shows a link between male fetuses exposed to BPA (bisphenol A) and autism in mice.
Australian scientists have produced research from over the past ten years pointing to plastics as the culprit in boys developing autism. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done here, but the good news is, not only do they suspect plastics are a factor, but they’ve also found a way to reverse the symptoms of autism in mice.
Several American scientists were involved in this study, but the main effort was in Melbourne, Australia.
This is very important in Australia because, as we learned in April this year, one in 25 “seven to 14-year-olds now have a primary diagnosis of autism.” Guardian
Researchers are careful to avoid saying there is a causal link, but there are reports everywhere talking about the scientists and what this means going forward.
It would naturally follow that we need to clean up the plastics industry and have pregnant women be careful about their exposure to BPA.
Here’s what the press is telling us.
News.com.au: BPA plastic in womb linked to autism, world-first study finds
A world-first study by Aussie scientists has discovered a link between a common chemical, and autism symptoms.
Pregnant mothers who gave birth to boys with autism were found to have had higher levels of a plastic chemical commonly used in food packaging in their wombs, according to Aussie scientists in a world-first study.
A long-term peer-reviewed study by the Florey Institute in Melbourne found boys with lower levels of a key brain enzyme aromatase and who were born to mothers with high levels of the plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in their wombs are three-and-a-half times more likely to have autism symptoms by the age of two.
By the age of 11, they are six times more likely to have had a verified autism diagnosis.
BPA can be found in takeaway containers, plastic bottles, the lining of takeaway coffee cups as well as polycarbonate (hard) plastics such as baby bottles.
It’s also used in the lining of cans to stop the food coming into contact with the metal, and is even found on the shiny coating of cash register receipts.
“Exposure to plastic chemicals during pregnancy has already been shown in some studies to be associated with subsequent autism in offspring,” Florey scientist and co-author Professor Anne-Louise Ponsonby said in a statement.
“BPA can disrupt hormone controlled male fetal brain development in several ways, including silencing a key enzyme, aromatase, that controls neurohormones and is especially important in fetal male brain development. This appears to be part of the autism puzzle.”
Speaking to The Australian, Professor Ponsonby stressed the chemical is “not the cause of autism”.
Dr. Anne-Louise Ponsonby is getting the most coverage about the study.
ABC News: Study links prenatal BPA exposure and autism risk in boys
Dr. Ponsonby:
Several past studies have shown a link between higher plastic exposure in pregnancy and abnormal child neurodevelopment including or different child neurodevelopment including autism.
We wanted to go beyond correlation to understand this more deeply. So we conducted an program of research over 10 years including two birth cohorts, one here in Australia . . . and one in New York Columbus Centers study, and then over 25 laboratory studies to consistently get a picture on what was happening with the link between these two in terms of underlying mechanisms. We have now published that.
So we find that this link between higher BPA exposure in the womb and the risk of male autism is through suppression of aromatase, a key steroid enzyme in brain development, particularly for males. . . .
PBA is not the only chemical to worry about and much more study is needed.
So now we’re concerned about chemical mixtures. Sorry for the difficult news, but we can only move forward.
We’re worried about chemical mixtures acting together. BPA is just the oldest and the easiest one to start with and study, but we’re not saying that’s the only one that needs consideration here.
It’s up to the regulators.
It’s not our job to consider. It’s safety regulators of governments, and already the findings of this paper have gone towards EU regulation systems. So it’s good to know that the findings are feeding back into that loop. . . .
The anchor asked if these findings would result in advice to parents.
Ponsonby:
I think that the regulatory bodies that are responsible for giving advice about exposures during pregnancy or process levels in food, they themselves will consider and bring it into their recommendations.
More generally, things don’t usually change just on one study, but certainly this study will contribute to that machinery of advice and recommendations.
With the treatment, we’re yet to evaluate it in humans. We haven’t even established the safety in humans, yet alone the efficacy. That’ll be work that Florey [Institute] is continuing to do hopefully eventually developing human trials, but now that …Boon have identified this compound it really starts to give us some better ideas towards future autism treatment for subgroups of children with autism that it might be warranted for and also for prevention.
In both the cohort studies, higher levels of BPA were associated with switching down that aromatase gene that’s very important for controlling male brain development in particular, less so for females. . . .
Then in the lab studies we had a whole lot of other mechanistic data: cell cultures, electrical activity. The important is my colleagure, associate professor Boon found a target compound that once we had identified the mechanism could then negate some of these effective BPA, and in fact, minimize some of the features of autism. across different types of models in the lab.
Anchor:
Wow! That is a huge development in itself, two big developments.
People who may be pregnant may be worried watching this . . . So what is it that’s in a mother’s stomach that is causing the damage?
Ponsonby:
Unfortunately we find plastic avoidance at the individual level is quite difficult to achieve. Many studies have shown that, so it’s really a job for government regulators.
Currently BPA is in some food contact plastic materials. It’s in lining of cans, and it’s in epoxy lining on various different products
Even though BPA has become less common, other bisphenols like BPF and S. They’re very similar in structure, and I think we have to consider that they may have some health issues as well and should be evaluated for that.
And the other thing in our work is this aromatase site is the site that we know that other chemicals like flame retardants can operate.
So now we’re concerned about chemical mixtures. Sorry for the difficult news, but we can only move forward. . . .
The Australian: Doctors are calling for tougher regulation of the chemical BPA amid health harms
Medical experts have called for an overhaul of plastics regulation in Australia as growing evidence indicates that neuroendocrine-disrupting chemicals are linked with the development of autism.
The nation’s top doctors’ group has called for an overhaul of plastics regulation in Australia as growing evidence indicates that neuroendocrine-disrupting chemicals found in disposable water bottles, food containers, canned food packaging and cosmetics are linked with the development of autism.
News9 Australia: Plastic chemicals may trigger autism in boys, says research
Anchor:
There’s been a big breakthrough in understanding what may cause autism with new research linking autism in boys with plastic chemicals. Two Melbourne based scientists found that pregnant women with traces of food packaging in their system are more likely to give birth to boys who then develop the condition.
Anne-Louise Ponsonby:
The unique feature of our work was not so much the link between high plastic exposure and autism, several past studies have shown that, but we went beyond correlation to be actually be able to map out an underlying mechanism, and that involved the suppression of a key steroid enzyme called aromatase that is particularly important for male brain in utero.
And let me add that this mechanism is not possibly occurring for all autism. Autism is a complex multifactorial disease with both genetic and environmental drivers. . . . We think this is a contributing factor to some cases of autism.
It’s very helpful to understand something about a mechanism because it puts us in a much better position for future prevention and treatment. . . .
Anchor: Could this lead to preventive treatment? ,,,
Ponsonby:
We are hoping to move towards treatment. One of my colleagues. . . she tested and identified a target compound that could negate some of the effects of plastic and actually reduce some of the autism symptoms. . . . We’re yet to move to any human phase with safety or efficacy. . . .
Professor Boon and team have been talking with the U.S. FDA and are trying to move towards safety human trials in the first instance.
Medical News: Higher BPA levels in pregnant mothers linked to autism in sons
Professor Ponsonby said the researchers analysed two large birth cohorts – the Barwon Infant Study (BIS) in Australia and the Columbia Centre for Children's Health and Environment in the USA. . . .
BPA can disrupt hormone controlled male fetal brain development in several ways, including silencing a key enzyme, aromatase, that controls neurohormones and is especially important in fetal male brain development. This appears to be part of the autism puzzle." . . .
In laboratory work, Dr Boon studied the impact of prenatal BPA on mice. . . .
Professor Ponsonby said BPA, similar bisphenols and other plastic chemicals with endocrine-disrupting effects are now widespread and almost impossible for individuals to avoid.
"We all ingest plastic chemicals in many ways – through ingesting plastic food and drink packaging, inhaling home renovation fumes, and through the skin from sources such as cosmetics. There are so many ways these chemicals enter our bodies, so, it's not surprising that BPA was present in a large proportion of the women's urine samples we studied. It's important for us to understand how these plastics affect our health," Professor Ponsonby said.
7News Australia: Microplastics warning for expectant mums - Products to avoid
7News:
Researchers here at the Florey tested BPA levels in the urine of pregnant women. Male babies with a lower level of brain hormones were six times more likely to be diagnosed with autism if their mothers had high levels of BPA. It’s commonly found in food packaging like plastic bottles and tin cans.
To limit exposure avoid drinking out of soft waster bottles, don’t put plastic in the microwave, also don’t touch till receipts
Professor Mark Green, Melbourne University:
Here in Australia, till receipts are absolutely covered in BPA, so just doing those simple things will hopefully reduce your exposure to BPA.
7News:
The same scientists also found a drug that can reduce BPA-induced autism in mice.
Dr. Wah Chin Boon:
That symptoms were actually reversed, and their brain activity returns to normal.
7News: Scientists are now planning to test whether this drug can reverse autism in humans. The safety studies could begin as early as next year.
Ponsonby: First we have to establish safety and then work towards efficacy.
The Project: Are Plastic Chemical Causing Autism?
A plastic chemical found everywhere in our daily lives, and now a group of Aussie scientists have linked it to the development of autism in boys.
So, can this world-first discovery revolutionize our understanding of the condition?
It leaches into our food, we absorb it through our skin, inhale it when we breathe. It’s in plastic bottles and takeout containers, the linings of coffee cups and canned food, the shiny coatings of cash receipts, a chemical that is used to harden plastics.
About 95 percent of us have bisphenol A, also known as BPA, in our bodies right now.
Dr. Wah Chin Boon:
The problem now is that it’s everywhere. So even if it passes through your body in 45 minutes, you’re constantly being exposed to it.
Reporter:
Now in a ground-breaking study, a group of Aussie scientists have discovered a link between high levels of BPA in pregnant moms and the development of autism in boys.
Ponsonby:
It seems to be particularly in mid-gestation, rather than very early or very late I pregnancy.
Reporter:
Studying 1,770 pairs of mothers and children over more than a decade, scientists found that BPA can switch off an enzyme called aromatase, which is key to brain development, particularly in boys.
Ponsonby:
If the child had a genetic architecture indicating that they were vulnerable—
Reporter:
—then those boys, when exposed to high levels of BPA in the womb, were three and a half times more likely to have autism symptoms by the age of two.
Six times more likely to have an autism diagnosis by age 11.
And there’s a potential antidote, a fatty acid that reversed the effects of BPA in lab mice.
Boon:
They can actually start to socialize and stop their excessive grooming, and even their brain activity returns to normal.
This is huge news. Plastic exposure is worldwide so it makes sense that the damage would be seen everywhere.
IF these findings gain support, it would be a way for doctors and health officials to finally admit autism is increasing, something no one in our regulatory agencies has ever done in the past.
Of course it will be years before we have anything conclusive about the link between BPA and autism, but I can see a massive effort for companies to get on board with the move for SAFE PLASTIC. We’ll see the end to plastic coated cash register receipts, and we could go back to glass bottles for soft drinks. The possibilities are endless.Top of Form
Cathy Jameson is a Contributing Editor for Age of Autism.
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Anthony Fauci seems to have not considered that his unprecedented quarantine of the healthy would kill far more people than COVID, obliterate the global economy, plunge millions into poverty and bankruptcy, and grievously wound constitutional democracy globally.
For years, and I mean actually a couple of decades now, I have written about THE REALLY BIG LIE ABOUT AUTISM. It’s the LIE that can never die. This is the indisputable claim espoused by everyone in authority that THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A REAL INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM IN AMERICA.
Each time there was an announcement of a new rate, some official, often in a public health service uniform, solemnly assured us that THIS INCREASE DID NOT MEAN MORE CHILDREN ACTUALLY HAVE AUTISM.
In the real world, however, we watched the numbers explode.
In 2002 the rate was one in every 250 children.
In 2004 it was one in 166 children, one in 102 boys.
In 2007 it was one in 150 children, one in 92 boys.
In 2009 it was one in 110 children, one in 68 boys.
In 2012 it was one in 88 children, one in 54 boys.
In 2014 it was one in 68 children, one in 42 boys.
In 2018 it was one in 59 children, one in 36 boys.
In 2020 it was one in 54 children, one in 33 boys.
In 2021 it was one in 44 children, one in 27 boys.
In 2023 it became one in 36 children, one in 22 boys.
In California, it is in 22 children, one in 14 boys
In Florida, it is almost one in 20 children, one in 12 boys.
Reports from other places are equally stunning.
In British Columbia, it is one in 29 children, one in 18 boys.
In Australia, it is one in 25 children, one in 17 boys.
Typically experts are cited telling us that autism is genetic. IF any “environmental trigger” is noted, it is usually some updated version of blaming the “refrigerator mom” of the 1950s and 1960s.
Over the years, studies have linked autism to:
Fat moms, drinking moms, smoking moms, old moms, moms who marry old dads, moms who have preemies, moms who have babies too close together, moms who live too close to freeways, moms who carry Neanderthal DNA, and the latest “blame the mom” is out of Japan, prenatal blood exposures.
Gaslighting us
So this is what we have to believe: Autism as a condition has always been around; it just wasn’t recognized until the 21st century.
Each and every increase is a good thing because we’re getting smarter and smarter at noticing it.
Of course doctors, nurses, teachers, police, librarians and everyone dealing with the public have to be educated about autism, even though it’s always been a part of the human condition.
It is now a given that all the autism is nothing new; we’re finally doing something about it. So if your child starts out normally developing, then loses learned skills, such as talking and using a potty, like 30 percent of autistic children, that’s always been happening.
Schools are starting to address autism, even though IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) has been around for 50 years requiring special needs education for all disabled students.
The autism rate comes from studies of eight year olds, but we have to believe that the same rate affects 40, 60 and 80 year olds.
Parents are desperate because of the lack of services once their children age out of school, but they will no doubt go where autistic adults have always gone after graduation.
A third of autistic children are classified as non-verbal, and so there must be the same percentage of autistic adults who can’t verbally communicate.
Come April, 2025, when U.S. health officials can be expected to announce yet another gigantic increase in autism, we can relax knowing that it’ll all be attributed to even more better diagnosing/greater awareness.
All this is what we’ve been led to believe for the past 20 plus years, and most Americans firmly accept it all, especially parents of autistic children.
It is very hard to contradict this orthodoxy of autism when doctors tell it to us, and the media uses every opportunity to convince us that autism is a fact of life we just have to learn to live with.
That’s the whole purpose of APRIL, AUTISM ACCEPTANCE MONTH. It used to be Autism Awareness Month, but that was back when people saw this as something new in childhood. Now we don’t really remember a world without autism.
Today we celebrate neurodiversity each April with blue lights. The puzzle piece image will fade because autism is no longer a puzzle. We now accept autism as a fact of life. What we need is inclusion and services.
The main job of the media in all this gaslighting is to convince us that nothing is wrong with more and more autism. They show us the doctors and health officials who know all about autism and are not worried about ever-increasing numbers.
Businesses are becoming “sensory-friendly” and whole cities are now “Certified Autism Centers.”
In the U.K. they can’t keep up with the need for autism classrooms and autism schools, but local officials are always “excited” about each new ribbon cutting ceremony for all the new facilities.
And for those who are worried about those continual increases, Forbes recently dismissed any concerns that the increases will continue.
The author, Nancy Dole, is a psychologist “specializing in neurodiversity.”
We’re all familiar with the idea that rates of neurodivergence are rising, and that the speed is taking clinical and educational services to the brink. The Center for Disease Control in the USA report that the rates have increased from 1 in 125 in the year 2004 to 1 in 36 in 2020. That is a vast increase and the reasons are generally ascribed to improved diagnosis protocols, improved training for educators and clinicians, as well as public awareness. Similarly, the number of children with an ADHD diagnosis in the USA increased by 1 million between 2016 and 2022
No need to worry
Some have suggested that the rates of ADHD / Autism itself is increasing, and search for medical reasons why this might be the case. One blogger recently stated “But if we look ahead to 2050, it’s estimated that about half of all kids will have an ASD diagnosis.” Now, the author themselves confesses that their article is unsubstantiated, but if the statistic is already starting to do the rounds, it has the potential to harm. Let's unpack where it came from, and learn a lesson about how easy it is to fall into alarmist, misleading claims.
. . . However, the subtext here is that Autism rises are something to be worried about, that they insinuate ill health and that such rises represent a potential crisis or major change to human functioning.
Neurodiversity is not a bad thing
Within the neurodiversity paradigm, we challenge that neurodivergence is a medical symptom of illness. We assert the right to be cognitively diverse and to have our unusual neurotypes respected as part of the varied tapestry of human thinking. We have argued that we are not broken and do not need fixing. These arguments land badly in our community even before we have considered the knock on effects of catastrophizing and inflaming the stigma that “everyone is Autistic now” or that “we all need to be afraid of rising neurodivergence”.
(All this sounds nice, but it’s hardly the view of parents still changing the diapers on their young adult non-verbal, self-injuring autistic children.)
Don’t worry about the cause.
The source article asserts that Autism is caused by inflammation from poor diet, hence the exponential rise and the potential of this rise to be limitless as food chains become ever industrialized. The litany of pseudo-medical claims as to the ‘cause’ of Autism / ADHD / Tourettes, based on correlation rather than causality, has a long tail of harm to our community. At best, it leads to parent blaming and pressure to enforce restrictive diets on people who are known to struggle with food and nutrition. At worst it starts a vaccination crisis which has led to outbreaks of diseases, significant harm and increased mortality.
It’s all in the genes
Neurodivergent people are a long term feature of the human gene pool. The extent to which we experiencing inflammation, mental distress, sleep disorders and marginalization is potentially a much more recent effect. As scientists, the more we learn, the more we are likely to say "it depends", and to appreciate complexity. There is unlikely to be one answer to neurodivergence, or one answer to inflammation. These are multi-factorial, complex adaptive neurotypes and systemic responses.
Doyle tells us not to worry about more increases because it’s not going to happen.
Our focus in employment should be on what we can do to help, rather than pontificating about genetics and being judgmental about lifestyles. Healthy work environments and promotion of work life balance to nurture good sleep and self-care is a good idea for all employees. All those who are most vulnerable will benefit more, including but not limited to neurodivergent people. That's the take home message.
There you have it. The disorder with no known cause, cure or prevention is nothing to worry about.
Experts like Doyle are never challenged by anyone in the media. Her words are accepted as fact, even though they make no sense in the face of reality
Doyle’s article deceptively ignores the fact that in 2002, the autism rate was one in 250. (There was a big expansion following changes in the DSM IV in 1994, and they’ve been unstoppable after that.)
I looked carefully at what Doyle wrote here, and I really couldn’t find convincing evidence to show that autism won’t keep increasing. Does she think that one in 36 is now the permanent statistic?
Just how good are doctors going to get at diagnosing autism? How much neurodiversity should we expect?
Doyle either hasn’t done the research on all the examples I’ve found showing much higher rates of autism across the world, or she doesn’t believe they’re worth mentioning.
Rather than take the word of someone specializing in neurodiversity, I’ll just refer to the top autism expert, Dr. Walter Zahorodny at Rutgers in New Jersey. He studies the autism rate in his state for the CDC, and it’s considered that most accurate.
Earlier this year Zahorodny was interviewed by Jill Escher, the president of the National Council on Severe Autism and a board member of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area.
Zahorodny’s interview starts at 54:45
This is what he had to say
about the autism increases.
Autism is a highly prevalent disorder. Within a generation, we’ve seen autism, which used to be considered by everyone quite correctly as a rare disorder, as affecting at least three percent of eight year old children.
In some selected counties and regions of New Jersey, as many as five to seven percent of the pediatric population.
There’s no doubt that autism is much more prevalent than many other childhood disorders and many more, much more common than many frequently encountered childhood diseases.
There’s no doubt as well that while New Jersey’s rate is quite high, we’re not the only region with high rates, but that these high rates are now reflected from data in California.
The increases are real, and they will continue to grow, according to Zahorodny.
My second and third premises or statements of what’s essential reflect the fact that autism has increased very dramatically in the sixteen year period from 2000 to 2016.
It’s increased across all subgroups, all forms of autism, across all demographic groups.
It’s increased in New Jersey from approximately one percent, 9.9 per thousands to now 31.4 per thousand, or three percent.
The trend identified in New Jersey is clearly mirrored or reflected by the trend the overall ADDM Network. . . .
Before the 1990s, autism prevalence was correctly identified to affect approximately 1/10th to 2/10th of a percent. . . .
The fourth object of my attention is that autism, in spite of better awareness, better recognition, is still widely UNDER DIAGNOSED.
We find that overall, in the period from 2000 to 2016, there was improvement in the rate of autism diagnosis. This was a significant improvement.
Nonetheless, even as late as 2016, twenty-two percent or one in five eight year olds who satisfied the case definition, who met the criteria for autism by our independent surveillance, did not have an autism diagnosis. . . .
And now we also understand that even in spite of better awareness, the true prevalence of autism is not merely the diagnosed cases. We still lag in our identification of autism prevalence. . .
Predictions/projections for the near future: MORE AUTISM
Autism prevalence for 2022—that is for the next surveillance cycle—will be higher than found previously. This is inevitable because autism prevalence has not peaked. . . .
Zahorodny expects the next rate increase will, no doubt, be attributed to better diagnosing once again.
Finally I would predict that the next report from the ADDM Network will not reflect significant public health concern or propose understanding autism risk factors or promotion of early detection.
Most likely the next report will mention better awareness and recognition as possible factors bearing on higher estimates.
This is a standard, almost magical Cohen that comes up every time the prevalence estimates are provided.
It’s unstoppable because we don’t know what’s causing it.
We really don’t understand what’s driving autism prevalence. We don’t know the risk factors, so the best one can say apparently is that the increase might be due to better awareness or recognition.
Nonetheless, we should be thinking of what to do better and what to do for the future.
Something in the environment is causing autism.
Without a doubt, the most important factors or improvements that we could recommend involve enhancing and promoting studies which attempt to identify autism risk factors and triggers.
These are not genetic factors. These are environmental factors and it’s necessary to understand which ones are driving and have driven autism prevalence twofold and threefold over the last fifteen years.
We have to do more early diagnosing because more children will have autism.
Since we don’t yet understand, and I see no prospect for understanding the autism risk factors or triggers in the near future, I think it’s very important that we try to promote universal autism screening of toddlers and preschool aged children. . . .
We need to prepare for autism eventually affecting all age groups.
Given the high an escalating rate of autism in our population . . .it’s essential that from the policy perspective, we plan and provide resources for care, services and interventions to individuals with autism, that we understand that autism is a lifelong condition. . . .
Zahorodny said the CDC isn’t interested in finding possible environmental factors for autism.
Unfortunately, no agency or program in the United States has the resources as the CDC to identify the potential risk factors for autism, and they’ve committed the most resources to identifying and to understanding this phenomenon, and yet we’ve gotten nowhere.
I’ve been part of the ADDM Network since 2000, and so I was there at the initiation and across the development and enhancement of the network. I think when we started there was true interest and excitement and surprise regarding the first of all high rates and the escalation of rates, but somewhere after third or fourth cycle, it become clear that there were no plausible ideas or hypothesis that the CDC felt compelled to investigate. It would be therefore less complicated and less dangerous to prevail with a search for risk factors.
It would be much less controversial to acknowledge what is possibly responsible for a small increase in case determination, that is better awareness.
It’s uncomfortable to identify a phenomenon and not to be able to explain it.
“Better diagnosing” can’t keep happening.
If some new phenomenon appears in our consciousness, we start understanding it and labeling it, and we get better at it. But it doesn’t go on indefinitely over a decade or generation.
The end of Escher’s interview with Zahorodny was quite chilling.
Escher:
I’ve been seeing some of these articles about the waitlist for diagnosis in the U.K. You saw what the prevalence numbers already are. They’re already three percent in the U.K., so it makes me wonder, what is going on there?
How higher can it go?
As we can see, there is no reason to believe that the autism rate is going to level off anytime soon. Nancy Doyle needs to talk to Dr. Zahorodny. He has the facts on his side. 50 percent of children with autism is not outside the realm of possibility, and it may come a lot sooner than 2050.
I have to believe that the public won’t continue to accept the claim that more and more autism is due to the enlightened doctors of the 21st century, especially when we’re all paying for the cost of lifetime care for all of these disabled people who were supposedly always here.
We learned this weekend that Sheila Lewis Ealey lost her battle with cancer this weekend. Anne had interviewed and written about Sheila over the years. Join us in sending condolences to her family, and pray for her autistic son most of all. How do we leave them behind?
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By Anne Dachel
Sheila Lewis Ealey is an autism mom, an advocate, and is featured in ‘Vaxxed.’
Sheila was also in D.C. on March 31, 2017. Her message was clear: She vaccinated. Her son was severely damaged. She is now anti-vaccine.
Who could blame her? Not only was her vaccine injury case among the 5,000 omnibus claims of vaccine-induced autism that were thrown out of Vaccine Court, but as an African American mother with an autistic son, she has a personal connection to the fraud at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed by William Thompson.
Govt "is too corrupt to trust them on these issues"
More of the remarkable and frank discussion on Kennedy’s vision of his presidency.
He dismissed that idea that he’s anti-vaccine and revealed the liability-free status of the vaccine makers who have no incentive to produce a safe product.
Kennedy was asked if education is “on the brink of catastrophic collapse”?
Kennedy: I think it’s already collapsed.
The outcomes that you just inventoried is evidence of an utter collapse of the system. We can fix the system, but you need to be able to do something disruptive.
Kennedy was asked about taxes, and he said he wouldn’t raise taxes. He was adamant that we can’t continue spending and adding trillions more to the national debt.
Kennedy pointed out that the chronic disease epidemic is costing us $4.3 trillion
We have to end that. We have to or we’re dead. It’s 4.3. It’s five times our military budget. We’ve gone from six percent of GDP to healthcare to about 18 percent. Six percent when my uncle was President, 18 percent today, and it’s growing exponentially.
Note: On Saturday, former President Trump survived an assassination attempt by a 20 year old male described by peers as loner who was endlessly bullied in school. For a moment, I had a flashback to Adam Lanza, who murdered 26 school kids and staff a mere 14 miles up the road from me in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. As the story unfolds, we are mindful that our language matters. All of us at Age of Autism have weathered barbs and arrows over the years, and maybe we've tossed a few ourselves. When rhetoric causes active harm, it's time to ask hard questions. And I hope our nation will. Anne Dachel transcribed an interview with Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. whom we are proud to call a friend and supporter. Few know the intimate agony of an assassination like he. Pray for his safety. For for the United States of America.
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RFK Jr. reveals the "corporate capture" of our regulatory agencies, media and political parties
THERE IS NO OVERSIGHT
After listening to the facts that Robert Kennedy, Jr. reveals about our regulators there is only one conclusion: THERE IS NO OVERSIGHT.
Our federal health agencies have been bought by the industries they’re supposed regulate.
RFK Jr. Part one
| Part 1 | Ep. 228 | Phil in the Blanks Podcast
Dr. Phil: As we enter the heart of the 2024 presidential race, RFK Jr. aims to do what no third party candidate has ever done: win the presidency.
Will we have another Kennedy in the White House, or will he tip the scales towards either former President Trump or President Biden?
This is a pivotal moment in American politics, reminiscent of those rare occasions when a third party candidate shook up the status quo. . . .
Tonight I’ll dive into where RFK Jr. stands in one of the highest stakes elections of our lifetime. . . .
Could he be the wildcard no one saw coming?
Dr. Phil asked Kennedy why he wants to be President.
Kennedy: . . .I saw something happening to my country that I couldn’t really imagine. I saw this huge division that’s so toxic now and so poisonous. . . .
I don’t think we’ve seen anything like this since the American Civil War, and it’s all amplified by the social media algorithms that are pushing us further and further into our positions into these kinds of tribal positions.
But the origin of it is, I believe, the capture of our political parties by corporate interests, and the corruption that’s come from that, and the political parties are fueling that fire.
I think this presidential campaign will cost about $15 billion, and that money is coming from these big corporations and this new kind of oligarchy of billionaires, and when donate the money, they expect something in return.
It’s transformed the political parties away from democracy. Their function is to advance the mercantile interests of the corporations that are funding them.
Dr. Phil: Is that true on both sides, Democrat and Republican?
Kennedy: . . . They’re both owned by interests that are not necessarily America’s interests.
And I felt I was in a unique position to talk about this because I’ve spent my entire career, 40 years suing agencies and large polluters and the agencies that they’ve now captured.
I’ve sued almost all of them. I’ve sued EPA as much as any other attorney. I’ve sued CDC, NIH, FDA, the public health agencies, the FCC, the USDA. And when you do this litigation, yu get a PhD in corporate capture and how to unravel it.
I also had a clarity of vision about what this country is supposed to look like, and I feel I’m in a unique position to see how far it departed from those values.
Dr. Phil asked Kennedy about his chances of winning and Kennedy is confident he can.
11:23
Kennedy: . . . There’s an entire national press out there that is very opposed to me.
I would say to people is just listen to what I’m saying rather than other people’s characterizations of me, and that’s the most I can do.
I know that what I’m doing right now is what I’m supposed to be doing. So I feel comfortable in my soul with that decision, and I’m working aw shard as I can to make sure, to save this country.
Ultimately, it’s in God’s hands.
I have to work as hard as I can, and the slings and arrows that I take from people outside need to be irrelevant to me. . . .
Dr. Phil asked Kennedy if he has a perception problem, and Kennedy agreed he does.
13:55
Kennedy: . . . Let me give you an example: the connection between atrazine, which is a chemical that is in about 63 percent of America’s water supply.
There has been an increase in gender dysphoria in this country, and we should be looking at reasons for that.
There’s been a series of studies including one by a very famous scientist called Tyler Hayes at the University of Berkley, published in the National Academy of Sciences journal, in which he took about 100 frogs, it may have 70, and subjected them to atrazine at the levels that the EPA considered safe.
They were all male frogs, and 70 percent of those frogs became chemically castrated. Ten percent of the male frogs turned female and began producing fertile eggs.
I’ve been working on endocrine disruptors which are a class of chemicals like PCBs that I’ve been working on for 40 years that affect sexual development.
It’s not a theory. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s well-documented. So what I said in that case is, I don’t know if it’s affecting gender dysphoria. I don’t know if atrazine is, but isn’t it something that we ought to study? . . .
Kennedy went on to connect mass shootings in the U.S. to the new class of drugs, SSRIs and benzos that have a black box warning about suicidal and homicidal behavior.
18:35
I have a perception problem particularly in the mainstream media. . . .
Dr. Phil noted that people aren’t getting to hear what Kennedy has to say.
You need to listen to what he has to say before you make up your mind.
Kennedy:
I have a big conversion rate when people actually listen to me. . . .
The mainstream media, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC and CBS, won’t allow me on to do a live interview. Most of them won’t even allow a taped interview.
I’ve only done one live interview on CNN, but otherwise they won’t let me on to do that.
Dr. Phil asked him why that is. “What are they afraid of?”
Kennedy: I think there is a political alignment now with the media. They’re overtly either Democrat or Republican, and I think the Democratic oriented networks, they feel like I’m going to be a threat to President Biden if I’m even allowed on the air.
And there’s other more complex motives. One is they get so much of their revenue from pharmaceutical interests.
Roger Ailes, he was very supportive of me. He was the founder of Fox News, and I came to him in 2014 with a documentary that I helped create about mercury in vaccines. I showed it to him and he was completely persuaded by this documentary, but he said, I can’t let you get on to talk about it because we get 70 percent of our revenues in the evening news shows come from the pharmaceutical companies.
I think all the networks are under that kind of pressure.
The unholy alliance between the drug companies and our federal regulatory agencies
Dr. Phil: Let me ask you this about Big Pharma, and this is about vaccines.
You say that the government regulators have been bought off by Big Pharma. . . .
You said agency employees are actually getting royalties, getting payments on vaccines and drugs that they approve.
Is that true?
Kennedy: Yes, there’s a couple of things happening.With FDA, about 50 percent of FDA’s budget comes from regulated industries, so mainly the pharmaceutical industries.
You have agency capture on steroids.
The principal objective of FDA today is to serve the mercantile interest of pharmaceutical companies, and that’s why you see FDA not only approving all of these drugs that shouldn’t be approved, but they are also out to destroy things that are actually shown to be good for you, that do not make profits for the pharmaceutical companies.
Then talking about NIH
Kennedy: In 1980, we passed a law called the Bayh-Dole Act. The Bayh-Dole Act, for the first time, allowed individual scientists and NIH as the agency to collect royalties on drugs on which they had done research.
It really transformed, that law really transformed NIH.
When I was growing up, NIH was only 15 minutes from my home. . . . I wanted to be a scientist when I was a kid, so I went to NIH all the time to look at the rats and look through the microscopes etc.
It was the premier scientific agency in the world. Nobody in the world had anything like that, and they would look to America for science, particularly for medical research, biomedical research.
After the Bayh-Dole Act, NIH began slowly migrating from a scientific research agency to a drug development incubator.
In 2016 . . . there were about 220 new drugs approved by FDA, and 100 percent of them came out of NIH.
For example, the Moderna vaccine. NIH owns half of that vaccine, 50 percent. So the billions of dollars that the vaccine makes, half of that goes to NIH, the agency, but there’s also individuals, at least four, maybe six, who work for NIH who are the high level deputies under Anthony Fauci, who get to collect $150,000 a year forever, not just for their lives, but their children, as long as that mRNA technology is on the market, they’re going to be making money from it. That is a conflict.
Dr. Phil responded by asking Kennedy if NIH was getting a “kickback, a bribe.”
Is this not a clear conflict of interest? . . .
Why are you the only one talking about this?
Kennedy: If you talk about this kind of thing, you get censored on YouTube. You will not be allowed on the mainstream media to talk about these issues.
It used to be that you could, but nowadays, you cannot.
Dr. Phil: If there’s some rational reason for it, why would they try to censor and hide it?
Kennedy: I think it was an idealistic reason. It was 1980, right? It was the tie in the Reagan Revolution. If you put privatized incentives into the government agencies, they would function better and more efficiently.
Dr. Phil asked about alternative treatments.
Kennedy: The whole approval of the Moderna vaccine and the Pfizer vaccines during COVID required them to suppress any other therapeutic drugs that may have been effective against COVID, and a lot believe, including myself, that there were therapeutics that were very, very effective against COVID, like Ivermectin, like hydroxychloroquine. In fact there were many, many others.
They were deliberately suppressed because the government wanted to issue these emergency use authorizations, and it would have been illegal if they acknowledged that there was an existing drug that was approved for any purpose that was effective against COVID.
Dr. Phil called this another conflict of interest.
Kennedy: We had 16 percent of the COVID deaths in the United States, and we only have 4.2 percent of the world’s population.
We literally did worse than any country in the world, at least by that data point.
And I think one of the reasons was the systematic suppression of things that could have helped patients in hospitals all over the country. . . .
Everybody was directed down one path, and it was the path that was being dictated from above.
Dr. Phil summarized the mismanagement of the COVID pandemic and what was forced on the American people. He questioned the motives of the people in charge.
He asked Kennedy about the COVID vaccine.
Kennedy: Well, it was the deadliest in terms of how many deaths were reported to the VAERS database.
Now you don’t know causation. I took the vaccine, and the next day I had a heart attack or a stroke or myocarditis, you can’t say for sure that that injury was attributable to that correlation . . . but when you see this huge uptick within, I think, the first year of the release of the COVID vaccine, there were more reports to COVID sic of deaths and injuries than all vaccines put together for the previous almost 36 years.
In that sense, yes, it was the deadliest vaccine ever.
Part of that is that it was mandated for so many people.
“Corporate capture”
Dr. Phil asked Kennedy how he would handle the corporate capture of our federal agencies.
Kennedy: I think each agency, you have to address because they all have unique structures.
Part of the problem is policy and structure and part of it is personnel.
If there’re perverse incentive like at FDA where 50 percent of the budget comes from pharma or NIH where regulators are getting paid to make sure drugs get on the market.
Congress actually had hearings on it, and Anthony Fauci testified at those hearings because he was making money on some of these drugs that he had developed.
So you have a scientist who is supposed to be looking for problems in that drug, that’s what his job is as a regulator. Find the problems to make sure you’re protecting the public.
But if he’s paying for his mortgage, and he’s paying for his children’s education, he’s paying for his boat, he’s paying for his alimony from that $150,000 a year, you could expect and you could predict that he’s going to be less vigilant about finding problems.
That’s what we call a perverse incentive
The people who tend to get promoted are people who are willing to carry water for the industry.
The regulators become sock puppets of the industry, and when people get to the end of their careers for a government agency, they go to work for the industry they regulated.
So right before they leave they tend to do a lot of favors for those industries, and they’re senior management, and that example, that bad example tends to percolate downward throughout their whole division. . . .
These are all swamp creatures, and it amplifies that corporate capture that we see. . . .
I understand the perverse incentives that need to be changed right away in order to change agency culture and get them doing what they’re supposed to be doing which is serving the public interest and protecting public health.
We’re now the unhealthiest country in the world.
We have the highest chromic disease burden in the world.
When my uncle was President, six percent of Americans had chronic disease. Today almost 60 percent do, and nobody’s doing anything about this.
Nobody’s talking about the autism rates in my generation, depending on which study, one in 2,500 or one in 10,000,
In my kids’ generation is one every 34 kids, one in every 22 boys.
So Congress said to EPA, tell us what year the autism epidemic began?
EPA came back and said it’s a red line, 1989, so something happened in 1989.
So something happened in 1989. We know this epidemic is not happening because of genes. Genes don’t cause epidemics, as you know. You need an environmental toxin.
So why aren’t we looking for what toxin it was that hit every demographic? It became ubiquitous in `1989, and those are the studies that I’m going to get them to do as President.
Finally Dr. Phil asked Kennedy about election integrity.
Kennedy said we could fix the problem. Republicans and Democrats need to work together to solve this. Kennedy wants a free government issued photo ID for voting and paper ballots along with a low threshold for recounts.
So why isn’t “corporate capture” the biggest issue in our presidential race? How much worse does the corruption at the highest levels of government have to get before we see something change? The regulators and the media are in the pay of industry, and their job is to lie to us.
Health care has become sick care in this country and many people want it to continue. There is so much money to be made.
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ONE IN 22 ISN'T ALL THAT UNIQUE, IN FACT IT'S EXPECTED
A story from KPBS in San Diego caught my attention for two reasons.
First of all, it was about efforts to provide something significant in the lives of autistic young people.
July 8, 2024, KPBS: Why a San Diego surf camp for people with autism doubled in size
On a Monday morning, long lines of surfboards stretched down La Jolla Shores. On them, children practiced — paddle, paddle, paddle! — scooping at the sand, pressing themselves into "seal position," and popping into a crouch.
Outside one blue tent, the boards were taken by a dozen children and young adults somewhere on the wide spectrum of autism, each with their own coach. It was day one of a four-day surf camp. . . .
Parents started this surf camp 22 years ago.
It’s run by the Autism Society of San Diego and supported by state and county funds.
Adults running the program genuinely want these children to succeed, and I can only imagine how grateful parents are for this opportunity.
The other thing that stood out to me was this information:
The demand reflects San Diego’s unique population.
Nationally, 1 in 36 children are diagnosed with autism. Korogi said in San Diego, it’s 1 in 22.
“Almost every single classroom has at least one individual with autism,” she said.
San Diego offers better services for people with autism than many places in the country, Korogi said. Military families request to be stationed here to access those services, driving up the numbers.
Dear Readers, did you know that Andy Wakefield has produced a full length feature film about a vaccine whistleblower? It's called Protocol 7. As the saying goes, "Truth is stranger than fiction." And after years of documentaries covering a wide range of autism and vaccine topics, we now have a fictional tale plucked from what SHOULD have been the headlines, but was buried. Our Anne Dachel interviewed Andy in May (see our post including the video interview below.) You can host a screening in your local theatre. And the site runs a list of all of the showings.
BEST OF ALL - the Protocol 7 website has an "at a glance" Know The Risks page that you can forward to friends and family with a succinct, graphic synopsis of the pediatric vaccination schedule. As a rule, we are an - ahem - overly wordy group. So the graphic presentation is fabulous. Share!
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Age of Autism, May 23, 2024
Protocol 7 Movie Bring Things That Go MUMPS In The Night To The Theatre
"Merck has not essentially denied committing (mumps vaccine) fraud."
So excited to share a new FEATURE length movie from Andy Wakefield. Protocol 7 is a plucked from real life thriller about a whistleblower who exposes problems with the mumps component of the Merck MMR vaccine. The truth is still unfolding in a Pennsylvania court.
Vaccine injury and pharma malfeasance are no longer rated "X" as a topic for public interest. Audiences are aware of the grip pharma has on our government, public health and medical community, because of the Covid lockdown and vaccine mandates that touched everyone. Moviegoers are READY for Protocol 7. Click HOST A PROTOCOL 7 SCREENING to learn how you can get involved and help promote the movie too. Anne Dachel sat down with the director, one Andrew J. Wakefield, to talk about this film, so many years in the making.
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By Anne Dachel
I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Andrew Wakefield about his latest project, the full length movie, Protocol 7.
Protocol 7 reveals more of the nefarious history of the vaccine industry in America, this time involving the mumps component in Merck’s MMR vaccine.
The movie itself, Protocol 7, this is my first venture into a full length narrative feature film, unlike documentaries in the past. So it’s a whistleblower story in the genre Erin Brockovich or the Insider.
It’s very exciting. People love an insider story.
It tells the story based on truths of a whistleblower, two whistleblowers in a vaccine lab with reports that they were asked to participate in a fraud, what they considered to be a fraud.
It centered around the efficacy, the protective ability of the mumps vaccine which has been failing for many years. They knew this as early as the late 90s. They still persisted. They had an option either to scrap it, do a recall and make a safer vaccine, BUT potentially lose the American market, lose the market worldwide OR to fake the data. That’s what the whistleblowers reported to me.
So it’s been there for a long time. The story’s been there for a long time. It’s in federal court in Pennsylvania at the moment on appeal.
Thank you to Anne Dachel for her transcription genius. Watch the interview, if only to see for yourself why neither Trump nor Biden wanted Kennedy in the debate. His ability to remember, distill and share facts is exceptional.
By Anne Dachel
Bobby Kennedy is an incredible speaker. Without notes he can cite statistics that show his vast command of information on so many issues vital to Americans.
This was never more evident than during a recent talk with former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, Shawn Ryan on his podcast.
It was over two and a half hours long, and it was fascinating in its entirety. What really stood out to me was 10 minutes of the interview at 1 hour, 52 minutes.
(Transcribed below)
Here Kennedy talked about SIMPSONWOOD, which was a clandestine meeting of health officials, scientists and vaccine makers held at a secluded conference center in Norcross, GA in June 2000, 20 miles from CDC headquarters in Atlanta.
During this two day meeting, attendees talked about the evidence of a clear link between the vaccines kids were getting and the explosion in neurological disorders, most notably autism.
On the first day they talked about the evidence they were seeing, and the second was all about how to cover it up.
Shawn Ryan Show June 17, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - CIA Propaganda & Information Manipulation
The part on Simpsonwood 1:52:20
Shawn Ryan asked Robert Kennedy,Is there anything in that is in the media about you that is completely false?
Note: Anne Dachel has been writing about the meteoric rise of special education for almost 18 years. Why is it that the world can "unite" (in some fashion) behind say, climate change or a pandemic, and radically alter behavior? And yet, children suffering and unable to learn goes unnoticed? Money. Our big "problems" are really big markets where billions are at stake. Color us jaded. Green, like money.
By Anne Dachel
The BBC is one of the most well-known news outlets in the world, perhaps the most esteemed one out there. Their stories are cited everywhere by other print and broadcasts news sources.
The BBC is supposed to be journalism at its best, giving us thoroughly investigated news reports.
The truth is, the BBC is an example of the epic failure of the media today when it comes to the decline of children in the 21st century. After two decades of following autism coverage from sources all over the world, I can say that the BBC, more than any other news outlet, reports on the massive numbers of special needs children. They do it constantly!
Actually, when it comes to the enormous and ever-increasing costs of special education and the increasing demand because of more and more disabled children flooding British schools, the BBC is more like a foreign visitor who just landed in the country.
It isn’t that the BBC doesn’t report on the soaring costs and numbers, and the fact that students have “more complex needs,” it’s just that they don’t see any real crisis.
A story one day has no relationship to the next story they publish.
The BBC does this kind of reporting on almost a daily basis, so you’d think someone there would ask the million dollar question: WHY ARE THERE ALWAYS MORE DISABLED STUDENTS?
Will! LOOK OUT!!! Your 1970s Saturday morning friend just might be.... YOUR CHILD! Autism and Neanderthal genes. I think I prefer being a refrigerator Mom to a cave woman.
By Anne Dachel
Autism is now one of the most common developmental disorders affecting children worldwide, with ever-increasing rates no health official can reasonably explain, and it’s also the subject of endless research that leads nowhere.
Over the past 20 years there have been lots of worthless studies showing “associations” between autism and old moms, fat moms, drinking moms, smoking moms, moms who marry old dads, moms who don’t get the right vitamins, moms who have babies too close together, and moms who live too close to freeways. There are more, but this is a good sample.
The message: Autism is a puzzle that we just have to keep investigating.
I like to call all this “autism busywork.” Now the latest “groundbreaking study” is from Loyola University in New Orleans.
We’re told the researchers have found “a primary cause of autism,” and it’s GENETIC. This time it’s a genetic variant linked to our Neanderthal ancestors.
Loyola University New Orleans and Clemson University researchers uncover a primary cause of autism
A landmark study recently published in the prestigious science journal Nature: Molecular Psychiatry has unveiled a new discovery in autism research. The research is the first to show that certain genetic traits inherited from Neanderthals play a significant role in autism. Dr. Emily Casanova, assistant professor of neuroscience at Loyola University New Orleans, co-authored this pioneering work alongside her esteemed colleagues at Clemson University.
We are clearly at a point in the autism epidemic where no one questions anything.
No longer do the numbers bother anyone. The current average rate of one in 36 U.S. children will, no doubt, be increased to one in 29 (the rate now in British Columbia), or one in 25 (the rate in Australia), or one in 23 (the rate inScotland), or one in 22 (the rate in California), or one in 21 (the rate in Ireland), or maybe one in 20 (the rate in Northern Ireland). It doesn’t matter because health officials never acknowledge that there’s ever been a real increase in autism.
And we aren’t really talking about the cause of all this autism anymore. After 25 years of always increasing statistics, everyone seems happy to leave things be. We’ve long been told that no one really knows why a child has autism. It’s probably genetic with maybe bad choices by parents. We’ve had two decades of studies showing a connection to fat moms, moms on antidepressants, drinking moms, old moms, moms who marry old dads, moms who don’t get the right vitamins, moms who have babies too close together, and moms who live too close to freeways.
It’s all just part of the puzzle that is autism.
This serious developmental disorder with no known cause, prevention or cure is here to stay. If it’s your child, learn the signs and get that all important early intervention. There’s nothing else you can do.
Nothing demonstrates where we’re at better than two recent stories on Fox 2 in St. Louis.
I was struck by the fact that Fox 2 put the stories out one day apart.
The coverage was about autism therapy providers offering Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) services.
The big news about kids and developmental health is more ADHD, lots more. Of course no one is in a panic, and, you guessed it, it’s due to GREATER AWARENESS, the effects of COVID, modern living, etc.
The increase, unlike autism, is described as real. More kids really do have ADHD, but like autism, this is acceptable.
Officials describe the rise in ADHD as an “ongoing and expanding public health concern,” which sounds similar to their reference to autism as “a serious public health concern” many times in the past. The message is, of course, nothing here is a crisis.
May 24th, Scripps News: CDC reports sharp rise in ADHD diagnoses among children during the pandemic; 1 in 9 children ages 3-17 were diagnosed with ADHD as of 2022, study finds.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder cases have risen considerably in the U.S., according to a new study by researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..
The study released on Wednesday said 1 in 9 children ages 3-17 had been diagnosed with the disorder at some point in their life as of 2022.
Roughly 5.4 million kids actively had ADHD in 2016, but just six years later, the number had increased to over 6.5 million. The jump in diagnoses may be good as kids are getting screened more.
COVID
The study notes, however, that the pandemic might have had a role in the higher number of children diagnosed with ADHD.
"Children experiencing symptoms of stress, depression, and anxiety during the pandemic may also exhibit symptoms of inattention and impulsivity, potentially leading to a diagnosis of ADHD when other diagnoses may be more appropriate," the study says.
"Merck has not essentially denied committing (mumps vaccine) fraud."
So excited to share a new FEATURE length movie from Andy Wakefield. Protocol 7 is a plucked from real life thriller about a whistleblower who exposes problems with the mumps component of the Merck MMR vaccine. The truth is still unfolding in a Pennsylvania court.
Vaccine injury and pharma malfeasance are no longer rated "X" as a topic for public interest. Audiences are aware of the grip pharma has on our government, public health and medical community, because of the Covid lockdown and vaccine mandates that touched everyone. Moviegoers are READY for Protocol 7. Click HOST A PROTOCOL 7 SCREENING to learn how you can get involved and help promote the movie too. Anne Dachel sat down with the director, one Andrew J. Wakefield, to talk about this film, so many years in the making.
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By Anne Dachel
I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Andrew Wakefield about his latest project, the full length movie, Protocol 7.
Protocol 7 reveals more of the nefarious history of the vaccine industry in America, this time involving the mumps component in Merck’s MMR vaccine.
The movie itself, Protocol 7, this is my first venture into a full length narrative feature film, unlike documentaries in the past. So it’s a whistleblower story in the genre Erin Brockovich or the Insider.
It’s very exciting. People love an insider story.
It tells the story based on truths of a whistleblower, two whistleblowers in a vaccine lab with reports that they were asked to participate in a fraud, what they considered to be a fraud.
It centered around the efficacy, the protective ability of the mumps vaccine which has been failing for many years. They knew this as early as the late 90s. They still persisted. They had an option either to scrap it, do a recall and make a safer vaccine, BUT potentially lose the American market, lose the market worldwide OR to fake the data. That’s what the whistleblowers reported to me.
So it’s been there for a long time. The story’s been there for a long time. It’s in federal court in Pennsylvania at the moment on appeal.
Anne Dachel interviewed Dr. Andy Wakefield about his new feature film Protocol 7 - a story of a vaccine whistleblower starring Rachel Whittle, Matthew Marsden and Eric Roberts (I haven't looked yet, but I'm guessing he plays "the bad guy!") You can learn more and even sign up to host a screening here. We'll be sharing Anne's interview in the coming days.
But who could talk to Dr. Wakefield and not ask him about the huge increase in autism and its impact on families? We have an AofA category with posts we've written about Dr. Wakefield's journey from boy wonder British pediatric gastroenterologist to worldwide whipping boy for the protection of vaccine programs, governments and the pharmaceutical industry. Few men could have withstood the lashing in the court of public opinion and the British GMC (see photo) and yet stood by our children. We will always be grateful of his support and in awe of his continued work. Note, the videos are on Rumble. I'm hoping they embed properly. Here are the two links with this interview, in case. Part 1 Anne Dachel Interviews Andy Wakefield About Autism in 2024 and Part 2 Anne Dachel Interviews Andy Wakefield About Autism in 2024 KIM
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Dr. Wakefield on the ever-increasing rates of autism around the world
During our talk, I asked Dr. Wakefield about the current situation with autism and the universal acceptance of these disabled children as simply part of human neurodiversity. Those in charge preach that autism has always existed, with no recognition that the stunning rates are real increases.
Am I surprised that the rates of autism that are now being reported, for example, Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and indeed in the U.S.?
The answer is, sadly, no.
I mean the graph, if one looks at the trend in autism numbers, incidence and prevalence; you see that they’re a dramatic and sustained increase.
It’s been predicted to reach one in two by 2032. Whether that holds up or not, I don’t know. Whatever, there is a huge epidemic of these neurodevelopmental disorders.
The notion that this is due to better diagnosis is utter nonsense.
This has been shown in the New Jersey numbers. We have the same people using the same diagnostic criteria over time. So using the same diagnostic instrument showing that there is a dramatic increase and saying this is nothing to do with better diagnosis.
That may account for a tiny percentage of it, but we’re having to meet the market demand, the sheer volume of these children coming through.
So originally, it was a reasonable hypothesis to say among the things that may account for this rise is better diagnosis. But it’s a testable hypothesis. It’s been tested, and it’s been found wanting. It does not explain what’s going on.
When I was first confronted with autism at the Royal Free Hospital in 1995, I didn’t even know what autism was. We weren’t taught about it as medical students because it was so rare.
Now the other thing, and this is something that’s rarely pointed out, is that medicine now does not encourage in the same way that medicine did historically, the diagnostic skills that are necessary to be a doctor.
We’ve got tests, we’ve got scans, blood tests, this, that and the other.
Back in the day, the best diagnostician, those who were the best observers and describers of human disease, they weren’t of this century, they weren’t even of the last century. They were of the century before.
They were people like Jean-Martin Charcot from the Salpêtrièrein, Paris.
People like Babinski who worked with him.
People like Freud who attended his lectures.
People like Gilles de la Tourette who described Tourette syndrome.
These physicians were outstanding at eliciting physical signs and symptoms, describing human disease, many of them they couldn’t do anything about.
They didn’t have antibiotics or other things at the time, but they were outstanding at describing diseases.
So if autism, if something as fascinating, dare I say it and idiosyncratic as autism had existed, it would have been described by these people.
It did not exist in anything like, anything like the numbers it does now.
If they had seen a case, they would have jumped, and they would have described it meticulously.
It didn’t happen. Why? Because it wasn’t there.
These are new. These are new kids on the block, terrifying in their frequency and their severity and the consequences for society as a whole, let alone the poor families who have to deal with it.
What does the future hold in terms of developmental disorders, autism?
It’s fairly dark at the moment, isn’t it?
It’s going to go on increasing until people more broadly in government, in the regulatory authorities, academia acknowledge that vaccines are a major part, a major part of causing this problem.
They cannot bring themselves to terms with that possibility at the moment. They can’t do it. It’s beyond their wildest imagination to admit that there is something that they believed in so firmly, so wholeheartedly for so long, that actually, they’re wrong.
Some people have invested their entire careers in being wrong. They just have yet to realize it.
And so we have a while to go.
However, there are two things in my experience, my recent experience as well, that have changed the dynamic, changed the perception of the public, and this is where, I think, the biggest change will come, is coming.
That is film. Film has had a profound effect.
Films like VAXXED and Plandemicand others have really woken a lot of people up, and the other is COVID itself.
It's always better diagnosing/greater awareness when it comes to autism
On May 17thUSA Today published the story, No link between National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, rise in autism rates | Fact check
It was written by Chris Mueller who was cited as their “Fact Check Reporter.”
The claim: National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act linked to increase in autism rates
A May 11 Instagram post shows a graph that depicts a decades-long rise in the rate of autism. The graph's title claims the rate of the condition has increased "277–fold" since 1970.
The graph includes a red arrow labeled "1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act," which points to an area on the graph that precedes a sharp rise.
"When something increases over 200-fold, it is not accidental," reads the post. "Such significant changes in a short span are intentional."
Mueller’s strategy here was to downplay autism and any increase in the disorder.
A chilling story came out of Ireland on May 10th. It was all about the unspeakable aspect of autism:
WHY DOES AUTISM KEEP INCREASING?
This legitimate question was raised by Mattie McGrath, a member of the Irish parliament, the Dail, and the questioner immediately came under fire.
May 10, 2024, The Journal: Senator tells TD: "You did not see children with difference in school because they were not allowed to attend"
During a debate on progressing special education provision in the Dáil yesterday, McGrath said there “must be a need for understanding the explosion of autism” and questioned why the number of diagnoses had increased.
McGrath said that his brother had worked in Africa as a paediatrician in the 1990s and when he returned to Ireland, it was the first time McGrath had heard the words autism, dyspraxia and dyslexia.
He said his brother was “very concerned” that “something was causing” autism “Because when I was going to school … we did not see these issues. There was some issues, but nothing like the amount there are now,” McGrath said.
Anne Dachel ran this post on her new Substack - you can subscribe here. We've waited too many election cycles for help to clear our way through the power and influence of the pharmaceutical industry. Its tentacles have wrapped around Americans' health in many ways including obesity, depression, heart disease, and the topic we know best, autism. It's hard not to feel jaded, like Charlie Brown looking at Lucy holding the football. Donald Trump was vociferous in his promise to drain the swamp, and specifically to take a hard look at autism. Joe Biden has not made strong promises, so there were fewer to break. Small comfort. Robert Kennedy is steadfastly moving ahead in the polls. Does he draw from Trump voters? Biden voters? The two party system has delivered precious little to us. If Trump or Biden can't win on their own, that doesn't make a third party candidate a "spoiler." Instead, it tells us that Americans want more choice. Ah, yes... choice. As ever, we will not endorse a candidate. Feel free to tell us your thoughts in the comments.
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In this interview, Robert Kennedy, Jr. outlined what he will do to destroy the control the pharmaceutical industry has over the media in America.
We have the sickest generation of children in our history, and Kennedy wants to reverse this.
I personally see his description of the drug industry’s power over politicians and the news as the message everyone needs to hear. I wrote a book about it in 2014, The Big Autism Cover-Up: How and Why the Media Is Lying to the American Public.
Today, 10 years later, nothing has changed, except that the autism has gone from one in 68 children to now one in every 36. The news industry continues to lie to about every aspect of autism.
Even though autism wasn’t specifically talked about during this interview, it’s clearly one aspect of the culture of corruption, collusion and cover-up rampant in the “kleptocracy” Robert Kennedy described here.
May 3, 2024, Interviewer Joe Polish, founder of Genius Network, talks to Robert Kennedy, Jr.
From The Military Industrial Complex & Big Pharma
Joe Polish:
Why do you think the legacy, untrustable, government co-opted media is so scared of you?
Robert Kennedy, Jr.:
. . . They should be scared of me because I’m going to hurt their revenue streams a lot.
Thank you to our Anne Dachel for transcribing Polly Tommey's interview with Dr. Paul Thomas. She also ran this on her new Substack. Subscribe to Anne’s Substack.
From CHD-TV: "Pediatricians have more than a basic monetary incentive to vaccinate their patients — they are also motivated by the knowledge that they could lose their job if they don’t. In this special CHD.TV interview with Dr. Paul Thomas, viewers hear important insights on corruption in medicine, pandemic protocols, vaccine science, sudden deaths, natural immunity and more."
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In this 26 minute interview, Dr. Thomas explains the truth about vaccines as the moneymaking focus of pediatric medicine. Watch at CHD-TV.
. . . At one point . . .we had. . . 15,000 active patients and 33 staff. Overhead, we were running through about $3 million in gross billings. That’s a big operation with a lot of overhead.
What wasn’t known to me actually until I really looked into it is that the income from vaccines was substantial. I got clued into it because I started getting more and more patients who didn’t want to vaccinate.
The only thing that was sacred in my practice was honoring informed consent. You couldn’t work for Integrative Pediatrics, which was my practice, unless you were willing to honor parents’ desires, whatever they were.
If they wanted to follow the CDC schedule, if they wanted to do some vaccines, if they wanted to do no vaccines, it was their choice.
Well, as other practices started kicking people out of their practices if they weren’t following the CDC schedule, I was getting more and more families who didn’t want to do any vaccines, which was fine with me.
I’d been doing enough research to understand there was definitely some benefits to not vaccinating—not financially though.
We took an entire month of every single billing sheet, and on every visit, on the back of that, our providers would mark off what vaccines we recommend according to the CDC schedule.
We're at the end of autism whatever you want month. Perhaps in May we can extoll cancer for its weight loss properties, unless it would tick of Ozempic. This week, we'll be taking a look at Donald Trump's latest scattershot attack on the very topic that launched Age of Autism. Not from a political POV. That’s outside our pay grade.
By Anne Dachel
The beginning of the end for Australia. This simply can’t continue.
Two articles, purporting to be the result of investigative journalism, were published by the Guardian on April 28th. They were about the impact disabled students are having on schools in Australia.
Reporter Sarah Martin wrote about the ongoing crisis in special education in Australia, but something critical was missing in both stories as you will see.
Almost a million Australian schoolchildren now have a disability – that’s one in four enrolments. Parents, teachers and advocates say education is at crisis point
It was a rather lengthy article, all about how schools in Australia continue to fail special needs children, most notably, those with autism and ADHD.
Patricia is the author of Outsmarting Autism: Build Healthy Foundations for Communication, Socialization, and Behavior at All Ages. She is a licensed Professional Counselor, with over 50 years experience, and the author of the best seller, Outsmarting Autism, interviews Moms, Dads, therapists, educators, and other professionals. They share clues they follow to help individuals of all ages, on the autism spectrum become the best version of themselves. Learn how biomedical, sensory, motor, visual, auditory, perceptual, homeopathic, detoxification, language, behavioral, social-emotional, energy, vagus nerve, and other therapies can heal our kids.
Patricia introduced the show and asked me about my experience being an autism advocate. She asked me about my son, John, who has high functioning autism.
Anne: When he was diagnosed, I was told this was a very rare condition. In my little town of 14,000, there probably wasn’t another child with autism. Now every school in this city has autistic kids.
It has been a leading advocate for autism, to inform parents, and to get recognition about what’s really happening. We live in a world that’s trying to normalize this condition, to pretend that this is just part of neurodiversity.
All we need is inclusion. If we just fund enough services, everything will be fine. Numbers don’t matter.
The message is clear: autism is a natural part of childhood. We need acceptance; we need to become autism friendly.
All these cities are becoming Certified Autism Centers.
It’s just bizarre. No one is worried about autism. We don’t care where it’s coming from.
We ignore things like regressive autism, and one out of every three children with autism actually regresses. They lose learned skills at some point and become autistic. No one cares why that’s happening.
There’s so much that’s just ignored by everyone.
Patricia said that I refer to this as the “autism cover-up.”
Anne: We’ve had IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, for almost 50 years. If we’ve had to educate disabled children, even if we didn’t know it was autism, we would be ready to accommodate these kids.
Everywhere, especially in the U.K., they’re going broke having to educate these children who really never were here before.
We DO celebrate our loved ones with autism. We honor them EVERY DAY by taking care of them, advocating for them, fighting tooth and nail for them. We do NOT CELEBRATE their autism. That's just nonsense. Plain and simple.
By Anne Dachel
There has been a flurry of news reports over the past several weeks telling us about autism awareness and autism acceptance and the reasons we should be celebrating all the people with autism today.
For those of us who’ve been involved with autism advocacy over the last 20 years, it all seems like nonsense. Somehow we’re supposed to pretend that having one in 36 children with autism is nothing new.
Actually, a whole month dedicated to normalizing a serious neurological disorder affecting evermore children may have a truly sinister purpose.
What if all this is nothing but a cover-up by those responsible for worldwide damage as a result of an ever-growing, unchecked, unsafe vaccine schedule?
There are many who believe it is.
A brilliant way to avoid culpability and continue the lucrative, liability-free scheme would be to rebrand the damage as something totally divorced from vaccine injury.
It is actually happening all around us if we care to look closely, and it is ingenious.
We live in a world where a neurological disorder affecting greater and greater numbers of children is now reduced to NEURODIVERISTY. We’re told this condition (not a disability) has always been part of human existence; it just took until the 21st century for experts to understand what it is.
Problem solved
This pretense of no real increase, just better diagnosing, has worked perfectly. No one challenges it. Faithful minions in the media do as they’re told and are now flooding the news with heartwarming stories about autism awareness/acceptance.
We’ve come so far
Doctors and health officials are great promoters of this mindset. They’re not worried about autism. In fact, the medical community has taken credit for the exponential increase in diagnoses due to better diagnosing on their part.
Dr. Jesudoss was introduced. He is an expert and the father of two nonverbal teenage sons with autism. He was asked what autism is, and he assured us that autistic people are just like the rest of us. He said that the CDC has changed autism from a disorder to a condition.
By Anne Dachel
Two weeks into April, we’re now used to hearing about autism awareness and acceptance. We’re told we should celebrate autism and neurodiversity and promote inclusion.
It’s tiresome and totally disconnected from the reality of autism all around us.
I found an interview that was the ultimate in covering up what autism is doing to the human race.
It was on Fox13 in Tampa Bay on April 2nd, World Autism Awareness Day.
The news anchor interviewed Dr. Randhir Jesudoss who is with Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital.
First of all we were told that all the autism is because of better diagnosing.
News anchor:
April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day.
It’s a day to draw attention to the growing need for programs that are designed to support people with autism spectrum disorder.
According to the CDC, that’s a lot of people, about one in 36 children have some form of autism. It’s something we’re more aware of than ever.
And thankfully, we’re getting better at diagnosing and treating it.
Dr. Jesudoss was introduced. He is an expert and the father of two nonverbal teenage sons with autism. He was asked what autism is, and he assured us that autistic people are just like the rest of us. He said that the CDC has changed autism from a disorder to a condition.
Jesudoss:
It is when somebody has difficulty in social interaction, where there is some language delay. There is some repetitive behaviors.
These are the three things people usually see these kids and adults, but that is not what they are, and what you see is not what they have.
Most have normal cognition, and they have all emotions and everything like a normal person has.
Anchor:
Everything that’s going on inside, is just as normal as it should be. And it’s the outward expression of that.
Autism just shows up at about a year and a half to two years of age.
When did you and your wife notice that your sons might have autism spectrum disorder.
How did that manifest itself?
Jesudoss:
Both of them, we started noticing them around 18 mouths to 24.
Being physicians ourselves, we were a little apprehensive, and then they were officially diagnosed when we moved to the United States. They were four and two years old. . . .
They have inclusion with their peers in the normal school system and has helped them interact better.. . .
Being nonverbal doesn’t mean anything is wrong.
The teachers identified that these boys were not, although they couldn’t speak, but they were able to be instructed in the regular curriculum, and they were able to give the answers as much as a normal child would do.
We have come so far.
Anchor:
Isn’t that something 20 years ago or so and perhaps still in other countries today, they would say, well this child can’t learn, but it’s not that at all.
The anchor asked Jesudoss what parents should do if they suspect their child has autism.
Look at the list of child health specialists profiting off the epidemic of damaged children.
Jesudoss:
The first thing is be screened, and the best connection is your primary pediatrician. Get a referral. There are specialists who deal with these children and adolescents. They are called developmental pediatricians.
And then of course, if there are issues with the neurological system, then you have child neurologists who take care of them. Also if there are any kind of psychiatric issue, then the child psychiatrists will take care of them.
These are the things that are seen in children with autism. . .
Having autism is normal and so is being nonverbal, having seizures, GI issues and sleep disorders. We just didn’t notice these things in the past in children.
Some of them do have seizures, some of them do have anxiety issues, some of them do have GI issues where I come in to treat them.
Also they do have sleep issues and stuff which can be globally addressed with a specialty called a developmental pediatrician.
Anchor:
And the great news is, on this World Autism Day, that we have come so far in identifying and treating, in recognizing that there’s really no difference from someone who’s on the autism spectrum disorder to anyone else out there. It’s just a matter of addressing things and giving them all the support that we can.
Jesudoss:
And communication is the key to all these beautiful children and adults.
Anchor:
I love how you said it earlier, how when you came to this beautiful country . . ., you saw the resources that are available to help every child have the full potential and the best life they can.
The news anchor and the doctor leave us thinking everything is great with autism. It’s just a difference, not a disability. Doctors are doing an incredible job finally noticing a “condition” that’s always been around.
. . . We have come so far in identifying and treating, in recognizing that there’s really no difference from someone who’s on the autism spectrum disorder to anyone else out there. It’s just a matter of addressing things and giving them all the support that we can.
I don’t know who scares me more, the clueless newsman or the disingenuous doctor.
Maybe they should read the commentary from the mother of the severely disabled adult son with autism.
April 7, 2024, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Rose Baumann: Misunderstanding autism: It’s not just a different way of being
As we leave behind the capricious days of March for the hope of True Spring in April, members of the autism community prepare to commemorate Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month. Like many “awareness” months, April has been officially recognized by state and national leaders as a time to acknowledge a disorder and a population that has historically been misunderstood, mistreated, and misrepresented. . . .
No other descriptor besides “profound” is sufficient to describe the things my son struggles with on a regular basis: self-injurious behavior that is so pervasive he wears a protective helmet 24x7 to prevent brain trauma and facial fractures; spikes in aggression that can come out of nowhere, causing property damage and injury to those in his path; anxiety that can trigger incidents of elopement from the home or, worse, a moving vehicle; and communication difficulties that prevent him from telling anyone when he hurts, what he fears, or who may have harmed him (an occurrence that is far too common amongst individuals with profound autism).
Parents like this woman would see the Fox13 interview as absurd and beyond insensitive.
That news anchor completely failed in asking questions. He seemed well-informed on autism as something that lots of kids have, but it’s not a real problem.
The whole thing was basically telling what autism is and what to do when your child is suspected of having ASD. Of course the autism the two of them talked about isn’t what so many children and their parents have to live with.
The real message was, having a child with autism is normal.
Of course it’s one more ludicrous depiction of what will eventually lead to the collapse of everything. I can’t say it more strongly.
No society can survive with huge numbers of children who cannot function normally. They will become DEPENDENT ADULTS and we’ll all be paying for their care. More and more will follow in their footsteps, and the impact autism is having on schools is nothing compared to what the cost of adult care will do to us.
In August, 2023, the Boca Raton Tribune ran the story, ABA Centers of Florida Opens Flagship Autism Care Center in Boca Raton to Provide Children on the Spectrum with The Care That They Need Quickly
Although the piece was about the opening of an ABA center and featured a ribbon cutting picture where all the folks were smiling, the opening of a paragraph in the middle of the story was stunning.
“Nearly 5% of children in Florida have autism and we understand that when we make an impact in those kiddos’ lives, we make an impact in their siblings’ lives, in their parents’ lives, in their teachers’ lives.”
5%. How is that not a disaster?
This nightmare has no end in sight.
FOOTNOTE:
When Dr. Jesudoss was interviewed on Fox13 in Tampa Bay, he was first asked about what autism is. Here is his response.
According to the CDC, autism has been changed to what is called autism spectrum disorder because it’s a spectrum of individuals we are talking about who are being affected in different ways because of the disease.
In fact they have changed it from a disease to a disorder to a condition right now.
I thought about the difference between “a condition” and “a disorder.” I’m sure “condition” somehow makes autism sound less severe. Having a condition rather than having a disorder doesn’t sound so bad.
I’m also convinced that the focus on “neurodiversity” and “inclusion” everywhere during Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month are part of a plan to make autism just part of all the neurological conditions that are part of being human.
Lots of people now object to the use of the puzzle piece to symbolize autism. They say autism isn’t a problem to be solved. More and more we’re seeing the neurodiversity infinity symbol being used.
I can see April morphing into Neurodiveristy Affirming Month, where the real story of autism is lost in the sea of entertainers and athletes who’ve recently discovered they’ve been autistic all along.
By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill Skyhorse Publishing
Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic.
The question is stark: Is autism ancient, a genetic variation that demands acceptance and celebration? Or is it new and disabling, triggered by something in the environment that is damaging more children every day?
A commentary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on April 7th immediately got my attention because it is the reality check we all need.
While USA Today is out to convince readers that having a child with autism is normal and just “a part of human diversity,” the mother of an adult son with profound autism describes her incredibly difficult life.
Unfortunately, there is a movement afoot within the autism community that might abolish the need for an Autism Awareness/Acceptance month altogether. The growing population of neurodiversity advocates seem to be mainly autistic self-advocates with low support needs, plus scores of self identified autistics, many of whom get their diagnostic authority from Tik-Tok videos or “You might be autistic if” quizzes online.
If they continue to tell the world that autism is not a disorder, the official keepers of the World Awareness Calendar can reassign the month of April to another cause.
Profound autism
For those with profound autism, a group the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates at approximately 27% of the entire autism population, this shift in the narrative from autism-as-a-disorder to autism-as-just-another-way-of-being has done considerable harm.
I’ve been wanting to write this article for a while. It’s really the whole point of my Substack — to describe a society in the midst of a mass poisoning. Anne Dachel at Loss of Brain Trust does the best-in-class job of tracking the costs of vaccine injury throughout the developed world (with more than 7,000 articles posted to date). But my goal is to describe the sociology and political economy of it all — the ways in which vaccine injury shapes and indeed warps all aspects of society and culture today.
(This also woke me up to the fact that I hadn’t changed the number of stories posted for several years, and now it’s 9,000!)
The focus of Toby’s article was the fact that everywhere we look, we see the explosion in chronic illnesses and neurological disorders, especially in children. These are the result of vaccine injury, or what autism activist Louis Conte calls, The Great Poisoning.
Toby wrote:
If you regularly read my Substack you already know the basics — autism, ADHD, autoimmune disorders including arthritis, life-threatening allergies, asthma, Alzheimer’s, childhood cancers, diabetes, eczema, seizure disorders, sex dysphoria, sudden infant death syndrome, and sudden adolescent/adult death syndrome are all vaccine injuries. . . .
In our society chronic illness is normalized and celebrated while iatrogenic deaths and mass shootings are greeted with “Oh gee golly shucks whatever could be causing this!?”
So that’s a “Level 1” understanding of what a society in the midst of a mass poisoning looks like. But the impact of vaccine injury goes well beyond that to shape all facets of culture.
Toby continued, linking vaccine injury to lower fertility rates around the world. He pointed out changes in our everyday lives clearly the result of people who cannot function normally. This includes things like sensory friendly accommodations now common in retail businesses like movie theaters and restaurants.
As I was scouring the news for the latest autism developments, I ran across a number of stories about autism research.
There have been lots of things associated with autism over the past 20 years, possible triggers that could affect a susceptible child. Nothing is ever conclusive, and I like to refer to this stuff as autism busywork.
As expected, in time for Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month in April, I’ve seen reports linking autism to household chemicals and to toxic plastic.
AND one from theU.K. Daily Mail linked autism to moms who drink too much coffee and eat a high fat diet.
The title was, Now scientists suggest women avoid coffee while pregnant because of links to AUTISM in their child.
Scientists are cautioning women against drinking too much coffee during pregnancy after finding caffeine may raise the risk of autism in their child.
Normalize. Praise. Elevate. Wow. Now, we know stimming can provide comfort and context to our children. At the same time, not sure how celebrating this aspect of autism is needed. Acceptance? Yes. Explaining to others? Yes. Shame? NO. Management for times when it simply is not appropriate? Yes, that too. We do a disservice to our children when we do not help them to fit in, manage behaviors and travel in the NT world. This doesn't mean we don't ADORE them as they are. We celebrate our kids every day.
By Anne Dachel
On March 18thWBUR, Boston had a news segment entitled, New children’s book ‘Flap Your Hands’ celebrates stimming as expression.
The story promoted a new book by an autistic adult who seeks to normalize a feature of autism.
People with autism often face a stigma for stimming — a repetitive behavior to regulate emotions that can sometimes look like someone flapping their hands or wiggling their fingers.
The children’s book "Flap Your Hands: A Celebration of Stimming" presents an opposing narrative; stimming is natural and wonderful, taking families through a colorful journey of acceptance and joy.
Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes speaks with author and illustrator Steve Asbell.
WBUR’s host, Fernandesit, interviewed author Steve Asbell. Asbell was diagnosed as an adult.
INTERVEW
About his diagnosis:
It helped me not only accept who I am, but honestly celebrate who I am and practice self-care better. . . .
Like a lot of other late diagnosed autistics, I learned to mask behaviors that would be considered not normal, whether due to stigma or internalized pressures where you just pretty much teach yourself not to do the thing that’s going to get you made fun of. . . .
. . .Even if it’s more discrete, there are ways that pretty much anybody can self-regulate in a way that helps them get through the day, helps them deal with emotions, sensory issues. . . .
A lot of kids are taught from early on to, sadly, not stim.
Anne Dachel has been covering the "big lie" about autism (lies, actually) since our inception. did you just read that Tallulah Bankhead (I mean Willis, even I'm not Tallulah Bankhead old) has "come out" saying she is autistic? One of the worst lies has been the denial of biological, regressive autism. So many AofA families watched their thriving, vibrant, sharp as tacks toddlers plunge into the deep waters of autism. As April approaches, we solemnly swear that we will be up to ALL good. We will speak our truth, to use the parlance of the day. Autism sucks. Most of all, for the person with autism, who has to surmount so many challenges every minute of every day. We will NEVER allow the mainstream world to forget our kids or us, the beleaguered parents from a generation ago who were WOKE long before it was twisted into an unrecognizable mirage of denial and gaslighting. Anne's comments are not italicized.
The message was clear: REGRESSION IS NORMAL for those with autism, both in children and adults.
Autistic regression refers to a loss of previously acquired skills or a backtracking of developmental milestones. In young children, it may represent autism onset. In older children and adults, it may be a sign of autistic burnout.
There are a variety of skills that can be lost.
Regression may become evident across multiple areas, including:
language
social skills
emotional regulation
motor function
self-directed behavior
It’s just part of having autism.
“Regression in autism is exactly what the name implies,” Lacey Cottingham, a licensed clinical social worker from Raleigh, North Carolina, told Healthline. “You are autistic. You were able to do a set of things, and then you find you can’t do those things anymore.”
Autistic regression may occur after an established ASD diagnosis, in what’s called “late regression,” or it may be one way ASD presents during early childhood and that leads to diagnosis.
And it is common in autism.
A 2019 review indicates that for approximately one-third of children, ASD onset is signified by the loss of established skills after typical development.
We really don’t know why regression happens.
Why regression happens in ASD isn’t clear. When it comes to early onset symptoms, some experts believe developmental regression may represent a subtype of ASD.
A multicenter study from 2022, for example, suggests regressive ASD is associated with more severe core symptoms, lower neurocognitive developmental levels, and a higher need for support than nonregressive ASD.
Experiencing regression after an ASD diagnosis may develop from autistic burnout, even in children, says Myszak, though it’s more likely a factor for older children than younger ones. . . .
Learn the signs.
According to a 2023 review, language and social skills are common areas where regression in autistic children becomes evident.
Signs of regression may include:
loss of previously used words or phrases
overall decreased communication
new challenges in forming sentences
grammar mistakes
reverting to infantile sounds, like cooing or babbling
not understanding communication from others
social withdrawal
reduced eye contact
not acknowledging social cues
lack of interest in peer engagement
not wanting to share or take turns
What can a parent do?
“Speaking very broadly and generally, if you can clear up whatever led to the anxiety or stress, you’ll fix the regression,” Cottingham said.
What age is autism regression common?
According to 2021 research, early onset autistic regression typically occurs between ages 18–24 months, while late regression has a mean onset of 13 years.
Our health shouldn't be a partisan issue. And yet, it is. AofA'ers know that the CDC has been no friend to us.
By Anne Dachel
The Rubin Report covered the recent Senate panel testimony of Dr. Bret Weinstein. Notice the comments about trust in the pronouncements from the CDC. Sadly, what many of us know about the corruption, collusion and cover-up of the CDC is true of our federal agencies across the board.
Bret Weinstein Issues a Dire Warning to Senate Panel
Bret Weinstein, PhD, former professor of evolutionary biology, testified before a U.S. Senate panel, and his words were profound. I hope some Senators listening to his comments realize how dire things really are. Some excerpts:
Weinstein:I’m as certain of it as I am of anything. We are being systematically blinded. . . .
I believe we must zoom out if we are to understand the pattern that we are gathered here to explore because the pattern is larger than federal health agencies and the cartel.
If we do zoom out and ask, what are they hiding, the answer becomes as obvious as it is disturbing.
THEY ARE HIDING EVERYTHING.
It will be jarring for many to hear a scientist speak with such certainty. It should be jarring. We are trained to present ideas with caution as hypotheses in need of a test, but in this case, I have tested the idea, and I am as certain of it as I am of anything.
We are being systemically blinded. It is the only explanation I have encountered that will not only describe the present, but also in my experience, predicts the future with all but perfect accuracy.
The pattern is a simple one. You can see it clearly and test it yourself. Every single institution dedicated to public truth seeking is under simultaneous attack.
Imagine the forces out there that are able to cover up the truth about the severity of the autism epidemic and the consequences facing governments around the world.
What if, as many thousands of us in the autism community believe, all the autism is the result of the hugely profitable, liability-free, unchecked, unsafe vaccination schedule forced on our children in order to attend school.
There would have to be massive efforts to hide this link. Exposure to the truth would shake the very core of public trust in the medical community and government health care oversight. Naturally everything would be done to dissuade the public from thinking vaccines cause autism.
First of all, pharmaceutical industry advertising pressure would be used make sure that print, television, and online news sources deny any link.
Doctors would be indoctrinated to parrot the mantras VACCINES ARE SAFE, VACCINES SAVE LIVES and STUDIES SHOW NO LINK.
And of course there would be lots of pharma-funded science out there dismissing any possibility that vaccines did bad things to children.
Most important of all would normalizing autism.
How can autism be on the increase if every time the rate is updated to even more horrific numbers, experts and officials all repeated the well worn phrase that it’s all due to BETTER DIAGNOSING and GREATER AWARENESS?
Note: I beg to differ with the MedPage article Anne presents. Medical schools are educating their students perfectly, 100% about autism. "It's not caused by vaccines." Ta da! That's all they need to know. The actual CARE of individuals, aw, just leave that to the parents, the schools, the non-medical therapist.
By Anne Dachel
I recently found an absolutely bizarre story that proves how little the medical establishment cares about autism and what it’s doing to children.
On February 7th Med Page Today published a piece entitled, Medical Schools Are Not Preparing Us to Care for Autistic Individuals— It's time for that to change
The gist of the article, written by two people in the medical profession, is that doctors AREN’T BEING TRAINED TO DEAL WITH AUTISTIC PATIENTS; REFORM IS NEEDED.
The authors were Reeda Iqbal, a medical student at Georgetown School of Medicine and Sherab Tsheringla, MD, MBBS, a child and adolescent psychiatry resident at the Yale School of Medicine.
Those are some pretty impressive places, and one would expect that top notch schools like Georgetown and Yale would have cutting edge training in something affecting one in every 36 U.S. children, one in every 22 boys.
Sadly, that is not the case.
One of the authors has a severely autistic sibling and for her, it’s a personal issue.
When I entered medical school, I quickly learned that there are important gaps in autism medical education. A 2019 study demonstrated that medical students report low knowledge of ASD, and more than 90% of students cite inadequate preparation for caring for individuals with autism. Medical students also report a greater need for increased education and training in ASD care. …
It does not help that 77% of primary care physicians rate their ability to care for an autistic adult as poor or fair. It is clear that our current medical system is not equipped to care for autistic individuals and their families.
The authors call for more training for doctors-to-be on all aspects of autism.
First, it is important for medical students to understand the heterogeneous symptom presentation of autism, including the different communication styles and sensory sensitivities that exist….
Second, for patients with profound autism, medical students can receive training on behavioral strategies that can be used to address behaviors that are challenging. …
Third, medical students should learn about the different co-occurring conditions associated with autism. …
Clearly Iqbal and Tsheringla accept autism as just part of the human condition. The rate of one in 36 children doesn’t set off alarm bells for them.
Their only concern is that doctors need to be better schooled in autism.
Utterly absurd
Several comments in the article show that they are not interested in doing anything to address autism as the epidemic is clearly is.
As autism prevalence continues to rise, it is increasingly likely that medical students will encounter and care for a patient with ASD.
Those are the code words for NO REAL INCREASE that officials have chanted nonstop for two decades.
The prevalence of autism is increasing, but never the incidence.
Iqbal and Tsheringla are part of the medical community that has unabashedly taken credit for each and every leap higher in the official autism rate.
How is it possible that doctors could have done that if they currently know nothing about autism? Neither of them address this.
Iqbal and Tsheringla write: “…one in three people with autism have profound autism…”
Doesn’t that seem to be an incredible statistic? IF a third of the one in 36 children with autism have severe autism, shouldn’t doctors have figured out what autism is years ago?
The truth is, doctors, along with health officials, have remained clueless about autism on purpose.
IF autism is affecting more and more children, something is causing it. Something has to be done to stop it. The possibility that this is an iatrogenic condition resulting from their childhood vaccine schedule never goes away.
No, the medical playbook will never recognize autism as a crisis. It’s a permanent puzzle, a curiosity we have all the time in the world to figure out.
Iqbal and Tsheringla are fine with the autism rate as it is, and they’ll probably be just as accepting when it’s one in 25 and then one in 20.
The ending of the piece proves my point.
As a first-year medical student, I am often told I am the future of medicine. As a sibling of an autistic individual, I believe it is critical that we enhance the training of future physicians to become competent providers for autistic patients.
Patients with autism deserve to be treated with the highest quality of care. Promoting greater inclusivity and neurodiversity means greater input from the neurodivergent community about how they want their care needs to be met, and building a healthcare system that can respond with humility and adroitness. This begins with the implementation of autism medical education at all medical schools, including my own. Next time I go to the doctor with my sister, I hope that her doctor will be knowledgeable, accepting, and prepared to provide the best care.
That’s the goal: “greater inclusivity and neurodiversity.”
“Tens of thousands of children waiting months and years for help after demand rockets”
The UK has announced an “autism assessment and support crisis.”
Please note that AUTISM itself is not a crisis. That can never happen.
There an increase in demand for assessments, but THERE IS NEVER MORE AUTISM.
We are to believe that while the actual autism numbers have never increased, recent findings reveal that there are TENS OF THOUSANDS of children waiting to be assessed for autism.
That can’t be good because there are currently endless news reports about how schools are struggling to deal with the tidal wave of children on the spectrum. Imagine thousands more qualifying for support and services.
A report on February 2nd described how dire the situation is. Getting assessed for autism qualifies students for special education services.
We've asked the same question for 17 years as the autism rate has exploded: Instead of building more ambulances, maybe we should prevent the car accidents? Families are now waiting years to get into a hospital based autism center for diagnosis. Anne wrote about a new company that is offering quicker, virtual, online service to families tired of waiting. Virtual Autism Diagnostic Evaluations for Kids Speeding up the process is a good thing. Kids needs the diagnosis to access important services. But.... the name alone "As You Are" tweaks my ire. " We'd rename it, "As You WERE." I poked around the website, I found it noteworthy that of the 28 physicians listed, 25 are female, all of whom appear to be under 50. Make of that what you will.
By Anne Dachel
On Jan 16th CBS Boston, WBZ Morning Mix included a brief interview with the CEO of a new company that promises to reduce the wait time for getting a child an autism diagnosis.
It was a cheery exchange.
CEO of AsYouAre.com, Kayla Wagner, talked about her company which is now nationwide. They provide ONLINE ASD DIAGNOSES. Kayla talked about the usual wait times, now over two years, to just seeing a specialist for an assessment.
That was described as “really pretty terrible.”
This can now be reduced to a wait of a few weeks, thanks to the experts at AsYouAre.com.
What was so disturbing about this was the cavalier attitude towards autism itself. No one mentioned the current rate, one that shows no signs of leveling off.
The inference was made that we’re just now becoming aware of all the autism out there. “Awareness is definitely part of it, and it’s important.”
The United States of Autism is where acceptance is a cover word for, "Let's do nothing to stem the tide. Let's pretend it's not decimating families. Let's tell everyone it's a good thing." Autism rates have climbed for more than 30 years. But today, chronic illness and disability are all climbing with little worry. Cancer. Heart issues. Diabetes. Mental illness. Up, up and no answers. What's really galling is that for all the new schools and BCBA centers, there's little progress or improvement for children and adults with autism. Walk into a day program. Ask the plethora of un- and under-employed adults on the spectrum, even the old Asperger's diagnosis if they are meeting their potential, Ask men and women who should be approaching retirement what they face as they age and take care of their autistic children. See exactly what 19 years of special education has done to help individuals. Autism is NOT a difference. It's a diagnosis. With consequences for the entire family and ultimately, American society. The puzzle piece STILL matters. Even if autism goes on to infinity and beyond.
By Anne Dachel
ONE IN 36 AND COUNTING
Those of us who have adult children with autism remember a time twenty years ago when people were worried about the condition. It was a new label and people didn’t understand what was wrong with these children who started showing up in greater and greater numbers.
Back in 2004, the official rate was one in every 166 children, one in every 102 boys. Those were concerning numbers at the time. There were numerous congressional hearings looking into the autism increase.
Without exception, every health official who showed up at these hearings denied anything was seriously wrong. Most of all, they debunked the claim that vaccines can cause autism. They had all their pharma-funded population studies showing no link.
Autism was blamed on bad genetics (an updated version of the “refrigerator mom” of the 1950s).
Denying any increase at all was the real focus of health officials.
Note: This is the final installment of Anne Dachel's Thirty Years series. We're in our 17th year of publication. Many of our readers have adult children with autism in, or approaching, their 30s. Some even older. We must continue to speak our truth - our kids' truth.
'We have put our trust in people who don't deserve it and who fail to earn it'
There would be no end to this series if I were to focus on the people in positions of authority who have lied to us about autism over the years. I have written hundreds of stories about the officials and experts whose job it is to protect the health of our children.
In truth, they have used their positions to promote the interests of the pharmaceutical industry—the entity they’re supported to regulate. Very often, after a certain number of years at the CDC or NIH, they’re rewarded with a lucrative position in some branch of pharma for a job well done.
Their names are familiar to all of us because of the public positions they’ve taken, reassuring concerned parents that vaccines didn’t cause their child’s autism. They get the mainstream news coverage over and over.
January 14th political economist Toby Rogers, PhD published another incredible piece on the corruption, collusion and cover-up surrounding autism and vaccines.
The piece got my attention because I’ve written dozens of times over the past 20 year about what I call, “The Really Big Lie about Autism.” (See four examples at the bottom of this post.)
I have a different take on “the really big lie,” meaning that I’ve long said the main lie was the continual denial that more kids actually have autism. No health official in America has ever recognized that this disorder is on the increase. I’m sure if anyone at the CDC even hinted at it, they’d be gone the next day.
This denial is so critical because IF there’s been no real increase, then they can point to bad genes as the cause of autism. Autism has always affected the human race at whatever the latest rate is, we just didn’t realize what it was.
Toby’s brief article points to ANOTHER AUTISM LIE, the denial that vaccines are the cause.
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