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mynameiselder
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 Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:05 am Post subject: autism question |
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Before you read this It is of my opinion that there really is no autism epidemic (Well in most of the countries on this planet) and that it has been around for a very long time and also my theory only accounts for a smaller amount of people being diagonesd as autistic.
Please note also this isn’t anykind of racist conspiracy
It is clear that the rate of autism is increasing and that Britain and the USA have been found to the highest rates of this condition.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/jul/14/medicineandhealth.familyandrelationships
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-02-08-autism_x.htm
Autism has also been found to be substantially higher than normal in children of immigrant families.
http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/imbamcoa.html
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/06/06/autism-immigrants.html
http://autismnaturalvariation.blogspot.com/2008/07/are-children-of-first-generation.html
and you must also bear in mind Autism experts say it’s common for children of immigrants to be diagnosed late because of the language barrier, a lack of awareness among parents and the fact that many immigrant children are exposed to more than one language
also bear in mind immigrant families have children earlier and that having children when older does increase the chances of autism.
Harper & Williams (1976): "In a survey on the occurrence of infantile autism in New South Wales it was found that 21-9% of children had at least one foreign-born parent whose native language was not English."
Gillberg et al. (1987): "Urban children with autism more often than age-matched children in the general population had immigrant parents from 'exotic' countries."
Gillberg et al. (1995): "The prevalence for autistic disorder in Göteborg children born to mothers who were born in Uganda was 15% which is almost 200 times higher than in the general population of children."
Gillberg & Gillberg (1996): "Fifteen of these children (27%) were born to parents, at least one of whom had migrated to Sweden."
Bernard-Opitz et al. (2001): "Discussion focuses on possible risk factors and psychosocial adversities for autism such as a high frequency of caregivers who are foreign maids, the use of multiple languages and the high level of punitive educational practices."
Lauritsen et al. (2005): "An increased relative risk of 1.4 was found if the mother was born outside Europe, and in children of parents who were born in different countries."
Maimburg and Vaeth (2006): "The risk of infantile autism was increased for mothers aged >35 years, with foreign citizenship, and mothers who used medicine during pregnancy."
Kolevzon et al. (2007): "The parental characteristics associated with an increased risk of autism and autism spectrum disorders included advanced maternal age, advanced paternal age, and maternal place of birth outside Europe or North America."
This higher rate among immigrant families could well be because immigrant families are more likely to be ethnically diverse .
The Amish communities of North America have bred among themselves for decades, they have little to no case of autism among there population. They are ethnically not diverse.
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/olmsted.html
http://autism-news-beat.com/?p=29
oh and the amish do vaccinate
http://autism.about.com/b/2008/04/23/do-the-amish-vaccinate-indeed-they-do-and-their-autism-rates-may-be-lower.htm
http://combatingautismfromwithin.blogspot.com/2008/01/guess-what-amish-vaccinate.html
The MMR vaccine has been ruled out as a cause to autism
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSL043963020080205
Surely this is worth investigating. I fully recognised that autism occurs in homogenous populations but am looking for a further cause. Bearing the above information in mind do you think that autism could be increasing with ethnic diversity? The cases of autism i am talking about are when autism comes out of the blue when there are no signs of it in parents or grandparents. I believe that because Britain and America are ethnic melting pots the condition will grow there but i believe in non diverse countrys like Iceland, Sweden, Norway etc it will stay the same at about 1 in 150-200. This is my theory do you think it has any grounds. Look forward to your response.
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