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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are hiding your head in the sand if you cannot see that there are many, many more children with autism than there were 40 or 50 years ago. I am a boomer, and I did not know a single child with autism when I was growing up and when I was in college. When I started having children, I began to see children with autism. My child needed speech therapy, and suddenly there were no speech therapists because they were booked for months taking care of all these ASD kids. The number of impaired kids mushroomed in the 1990s.

It's not my opinion, nor is it better diagnosis (although that may be a small part of it). Did you know a single kid with a life-threatening peanut allergy when you were growing up? I never met one until the late 1990s.

I think the toxins in our bodies, and the toxins our children are exposed to have caused this epidemic of ASD, allergies, asthma. Yes, toxins in the computer I'm using now, in the fuzzy blanket covering my feet, in the soft sweater I'm wearing, in the rug on my floor, in the vinyl in my car, in my food, in the air, in the materials used to build my house, and on and on and on.

Some people are not affected by these toxins, but most of the kids with ASD have a relative with allergies and auto-immune diseases (mother or father or grandparent), and these are the kids who are most affected.

I'm not saying there were NO ASD kids who were given other diagnoses, but people who try to explain away the epidemic of ASD must have another agenda. Opinions don't change reality, and the reality is that there are many more sick children now with ASD, allergies, asthma, ADHD, etc., than there were 40 years ago. [/quote]

I COULDN'T AGREE MORE!!![/quote]

My mom is 62 and autistic.  My brother is 42 and has Asperger's.

Think what you like. The research doesn't support you. [/quote][/quote]

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