[tri-med] Re: The Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly

What an interesting article. It makes me wonder about the incidence of 
autism in other culturally isolated communities, has anyone done a survey 
in Outer Mongolia, or the Amazon jungle, or even in tribal communities such 
as the Australian Aboriginal communities living in the outback.

As a sideline: Franks's younger brother had a little girl called Fiona, in 
Ireland, in the 60's. When we last visited  them in 2001, I had the 
opportunity to ask them about Fiona, as all we knew was that she died as a 
small child. Her mother Trixie told me that "she was a perfectly normal 
baby, even quite beautiful, and people used to stop her in the street to 
admire her, then she was vaccinated and after that went into a sort of 
decline could not sit up, and failed to thrive, and finally died". They 
have three other children all boys (grown men now). Trixie is adamant that 
the vaccination was responsible, but nothing was known about it at that time.

Very interesting subject Nanci.

At 08:23 PM 22/04/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>Very interesting reading . . .
>The Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly 
>http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050321-115921-9566r.htm
>
>By Dan Olmsted UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
>
>Lancaster, PA, Apr. 18 (UPI) -- Part 1 of 2. Where are the autistic Amish? 
>Here in Lancaster County, heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, there 
>should be well over 100 with some form of the disorder.
>
>I have come here to find them, but so far my mission has failed, and the 
>very few I have identified
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