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Autism main | WHYY News and Information | WHYY — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:35:16 +0000

[...] WEB CHAT: Autism radio series Maiken Scott – July 20th, 2009 Maiken Scott takes a look at the latest developments in the field of autism in a two-part radio series. [...]

By: autismreality

autismreality — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:37:48 +0000

Here is what autism is NOT: It's not a mentally ill clever person with sociopathic fixations that feigns they are autistic (aka criminal), it's not the Horse Boy(a boy with ADHD who ended up liking horses), it's NOT Amanda Baggs (who has a psychogenic case of autism, as in in her mind) It's not Donna Williams–(a woman who has a multiple personality with one of them thinking she is autistic and being so convinced she's actually studied the definition and learned to be autistic) It's not Ari Ne'eman (who has aspergers ) It's not Jenny McCarthy's son (who has laundau kleffner never was autistic) If you want to see high functioning autism see Temple Grandin (who has autistic LIKE behaviors with severe aspergers) or the movie Rain Man. If you want to see a raw video coverage of severe autism where the young adult is punching self in head or having seizures go to you tube and type in: "autism self injury" or "reality shows you won't see on tv about autism" or "severe autism when there is no answer"

By: blaine

blaine — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:54:06 +0000

Barry, I don't know that the premise which states that autism is 'on the rise' is valid. It seems to me that there is a high likelihood that there is a perceived increase in autism because of increased diagnostic criteria and surveillance. In other words, the conditions which would trigger a diagnosis of autism have increased in number AND there are more people reporting these type of conditions.

So if that is the case, then your hypothesis is invalid.

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Autism: funding and awareness | WHYY News and Information | WHYY — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:58:03 +0000

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By: Barry Morse

Barry Morse — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:26:17 +0000

Please follow this hypothesis:
Plastic is the cause of the rapid rise in autism.
The human brain works primarily by electrical energy. Plastic is an excellent insulator. Plastics photo-degrade; they get smaller but remain as plastic. During the time of fetal neural development, at the moment that the nerves should make connection, they are blocked from doing so by a piece of plastic. I believe the autistic mind produces the same amount of electrical energy and that energy has fewer areas of diffusion. This is evidenced by the heightening the various senses experienced by the autistic individual. Note the rapid rise in autism in the last twenty years and consider the time it would take for the plastics to infiltrate our ecosystem or the direct ingestion of photo-degraded liquid by pregnant women.
I am aware of how much is said about the effects of plastic but I have never heard of it in the above context; that the plastic itself is acting as insulating particles in the electrically based environment of a developing fetus’s brain resulting in neural dysfunction…as if there was a small piece of plastic blocking the neurons from connecting.
The easiest way to see this is to take a plastic bottle of drinking water and freeze it. Let it thaw and sit. Turn it upside down, turn it into the light and see the shiny plastic particles descend in the water that you are about to drink.
I believe that this hypothesis bears investigation.
Thank you for your consideration.