Why Are Allergies/Disorders More Common Nowadays Then When We Were Kids?

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Naw, it's just because we didn't even know it was a standalone disorder until about fifty years ago and its only been very recently that we've been able to diagnose it with some degree of accuracy, rather than "your child is retarded/schizophrenic/possessed by demons."

We've got the same relative percentage of autistics that our species ever had, it's just now we know they're autistic.

But Autism isn't one disorder, in fact it's more properly known as Autism Spectrum Disorder which is an umbrella term for a bag of different conditions, which is all itself part of another umbrella term.

Do you have some sources on this? I've been to two conferences on ASD for my special education training and there's been no hint of any scientific consensus on autism or why it's positively exploded in the last 15 years or so.

EDIT: And the "no consensus" thing extends to the whole mercury thing too.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Donomni

I was kinda surprised that the number of kids with Aspergers has been climbing so much.

The cynic and self-loather in me wants to say it's along the lines of "NO MY KID IS NOT A NERD HE HAS A DISORDER GAWD", but we still have no idea how so many are getting it(at least not anything solid atm).

It's strange knowing there's a lot more people like me, but it's a complete pain in the ass to be like that.

There are those that propose that all nerds have aspergers to some degree. Just saying you are more likely to find a nerd with aspergers syndrome then a hyperactive kid with ADD. course thats probably more to do with the fact, well try finding a ten year old thats not hyperactive.

Originally Posted by Eldezar

Mercury is still one of the most poisonous substances on earth. I also know it is still used in shots because a friend of mine has 3 grandchildren. Only one of them has autism, and only one of them got vaccinations as a baby. Guess which?

Out of the grand kids old enough to get such a diagnosis, four of us. I am the only one with aspergers syndrome, and we've all had the same vaccinations. Me and my brother, within, at most, a ten month period. What you are doing is seeing a corrilation on an isolated event. Its like if I rolled dice and got seven, you came out shouting that it was seven because I threw it. Or that he was autistic because he was born with green eyes or something. Just because he got vaccinated, and has autism, does not mean the two are related. If that was true most of the civilized world would be autistic

Also unless those grandchildren are in their late 20s, they didn't get vaccinations with any mercury. They haven't done that in decades

On a personal note, I hope you realize how very offensive that accusation is. Saying we are inferior for being different is bad, but claiming we are inferior because the medical community has poisoned us is just down right insulting.

[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Eldezar

Mercury is still one of the most poisonous substances on earth. I also know it is still used in shots because a friend of mine has 3 grandchildren. Only one of them has autism, and only one of them got vaccinations as a baby. Guess which?

Ya know, My best friend of 15 years didn't get Vaccinations as a baby. Neither did his sister or any of their cousins (Religious thing).

Out of the 12 of them, 7 have been diagnoised with some form of autistic disorder.

My pseudobullshit-science shows that your pseudobullshit-science is WrongBullshit.

[Aklyon]

Originally Posted by Eldezar

Mercury is still one of the most poisonous substances on earth. I also know it is still used in shots because a friend of mine has 3 grandchildren. Only one of them has autism, and only one of them got vaccinations as a baby. Guess which?

Vaccines have nothing to do with it, this has been proved multiple times. Stop blaming them.

[Hanuman]

You may laugh now, but in 20 years he will earn 250k a year.



We have become a society scared of it's own shadow of humanity, too irresponsible to take BASIC care of ourselves/children, and too righteously fearful of death to accept our own population problem or to accept the death of our gene-line.

Although good things, we have TOO MUCH patriotism, politeness, religiousness, respect of life, ect. ect.. ect...

Point is, Utopia == Balance

[Osterbaum]

Too much respect of life? I really don't understand you. Like at all.

[Premmy]

Noone understands Lev. Go ahead, ask him.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Osterbaum

Too much respect of life? I really don't understand you. Like at all.

I have to say I agree with him, but only in very specific instances.

For instance, anacephaly (sp?), the condition of having been born without a brain. I mean this in the literal sense. Literally, anacephalics are born with nothing but a brain stem. Yet despite this, my mother knew of one family through her job in the Milwaukee hospital who had five children, two of them with the condition. The oldest with the condition at the time was nearly twenty years old. Through a combination of bad genes, this couple had a 50% chance of producing an anacephalic baby every time they had one. That didn't stop them from having them or keeping them alive. I could go on and disgust you with how dysfunctional they were, but my point is that I fail to see the point. They were keeping children on life support that literally had no brains, would never grow one, wake up, or do anything but lie there. Maybe it sounds terrible for me to be talking about this, but I think I'm not alone in saying there should be a point where you just let go. In the case of giving birth to a baby that doesn't even have enough brain matter to cry when the doctor whacks it, I'd say to just give it up right there.

[Premmy]

That's cool, how's about you do that with your baby and not go passing judgement on people who don't. Or maybe do go around thinking you're better than others, but admit that's a douchebag thing to do.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Yo guys, I had vaccinations as a child and look what happened to me.