This article titled 'Autism's Rising Rates Increasingly Blamed on Toxic Chemicals', is interesting... at one point we are compared to lung cancer, but this is the quote that gets me:

There are several things wrong with that statement.
1) "tsunami"- we are not a destructive weather pattern.
2) "young autistic men"- there are plenty of women on the autism spectrum.
3) "in our communities"- ITS EVERYONE's COMMUNITY NOT JUST AN EXCLUSIVE NT WORLD
4) "getting assaulted"- what in the world are you implying? we are not to blame if we get assaulted...
5) "assaulting others"- what in the...?


Anyways, I think the article shows how unintelligible so-called experts are when it comes to autism. The statistics and reasoning they throw out there are complete speculation. The mother convinced it was environmental- she is just making up stuff- agent orange?? come on. Her husbands work??

And science is not far behind her- it'll probably be linked to 50 million different chemicals--- if you find a large enough sample you can make the statistics say anything. Anyways, i'm sure being born NT is also linked to 50 million different chemicals, but nobody'll speak on that....

(absurd of course)
Even though I live in NJ - which has a few areas of chemical production if you have seen any of the jokes about those areas..

this is the garden state - and where did I grow up - in basically farmland.  I am very sensitive to anything toxic and avoid, avoid avoid - in other words I live such a clean life.

My grandparents in eeastern europe - farmers - ukraine... the gorgeous breadbasket of europe- clean life - and one (and a half) of their sons - spectrum (not dx'd) - um genetics anyone?

P.S>  All people on the planet (nuerotype has nothing to do with it) are getting assaulted by our food sources more and moer (I pay extra to eat and feed my family as cleanly as possible -as did my parents only the best - before organic had a label)

cavalier statement coming: WHATEVER it takes to makes people wake up and be kinder to our environment -scare us all if you have to - we as a people are assaulting our water sources (dumb!)

This post was last modified: 05-27-2012 03:20 PM by windy.

I thinks it absurd that they claim more children living by highways are born autistic...i think in general more children are born who live by highways, because it is likely to be a better populated area as opposed to a rural area in which less children are born because the population is smaller.

i think that chemicals are increasing risk for autoimmune diseases and allergies (this is backed by good research and common sense), but in my opinion autism has always been around and prevalent, just valued differently and misdiagnosed...it would be a strange world if we were all NT...

I am not sure the "whatever it takes" is the best route. that whatever it takes can take on a very violent of sadistic form...and that would not be good for the culture of human beings. Anyways, I am banking on the fact that a giant solar superstorm the likes of 1859 will cause a major power outage (including causing batteries not to work), and that will start to change things rapidly because people will see the limitations of our reliance on electricity - the production and consumption of which is the source of a lot of toxins being released into the environment.

This post was last modified: 05-27-2012 07:06 PM by sg1008.

Huffington Post is usually full of *** anyways...

Fierce mannered Bruce Blunter fell into the toxic river one day
exposing him to Autism. Now every time Bruce Blunter is
focused he turns into the Incredible Bloke.

The Incredible Bloke creates tsunamis whenever he rocks
and assaults our community with his focus.

Bruce: Mr McSneeze you won't like me when I get focused.
Bruce: Don't make me focus.

Okay? where have you been Darkcode!?!

I notice that even normally reputable sources end to jump on board whenever someone comes up with some crazy theory, as long as it has to do with autism. It's almost as if autism research is exempt from normal scientific method.

Why can't they stick to whats "realistic possibilities" I mean.... its just stupid, what theories they are coming up with.

Fear fewer people will subscribe and less money will be obtained from
reporting "Autism - We still don't know what's up with that".

Why say its experimental? Sure if one side of the guy's family has an autistic relative, and a girl's side of the family also has a autistic relative, then its obvious that the child may or may not be autistic. Its hereditary!!!

Toxic chemicals in Northern Ireland and the UK?

Don't think so. If it was caused by toxic chemicals, which it isn't the majority would be in China. Then again apparently they kill children who are "irregular"

We don't know the cause and I hope we never do. The world needs to focus more on finding the sources of and cures for actual, real diseases and viruses, like cancer.

I Concur

I personally think that autism was around longer than in the 1940's, when it became an official disorder, or differences for want of a better term. I'm wondering why nobody is mentioning that fragile X syndrome is considered a cause of autism, but not the official cause of it.

I've read these researchers blame the cause of autism on everything from "child vaccination" to "the food the pregnant mother consumed in the last 24 hours before giving birth the autistic child" and I feel they're not taking the research seriously sometimes.   

Just about everything has at one time or another been considered a possible cause of autism.

I think the most memorable and the one that pisses me off the most was the MMR. Not for it's ridiculousness but for the fact that it was kind of like this...

"MMR may save my child's life, but it may give them autism. I'd rather let my child suffer from a terrible disease and possibly die..."