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

When Arwen was a baby, we didn't get her vaccinations right away.  I bought 
a book that tells how vaccinations are made and side effects, etc.  It was 
very informative.  It gave me a lot of questions to ask our ped.  We were 
fortunate that he was pretty open and didn't "make" us get her vacc.  We 
decided to later, simply because whooping cough was going around in our 
state, and Arwen didn't have any warning signs (allergies, etc.) that would 
make us think she may have trouble.  We got Elanor's right on time and 
didn't have any problems.  I think that vaccinations are overall a good 
thing, I mean, smallpox is nonexistent in the US, and kids rarely die of 
measles or mumps anymore.  I just think the government and medical community 
tend to be too militant in the issue.  Chicken pox, for example.  Really, do 
you know anyone who has died from chicken pox?  Flu shots--everybody I know 
who gets the flu shot (except Elanor-go figure) gets the flu.  As with 
anything, inform yourself before you make a decision.  I know some people 
who think the government is injecting you with location devices, but that's 
a whole other story...;)

I'm stepping down from the soapbox now.  Next...

Jennifer, mom to Arwen, 7; Elanor (t18), 5; caregiver to Joe (cerebral palsy 
& spastic displaysia), 26 & Eric (cerebral palsy & seizure disorder), 19; 
and wife to Andrew; Boise, Idaho
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nanci Grimes" <nancii@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 6:36 AM
Subject: [tri-med] Re: The Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly


> Hmmm, very interesting.
>
> I was discussing this article with my daughter who is in her peds rotation 
> of nursing school.  They are taught how to coax parents into getting the 
> vaccines and are told that the negative info is outdated etc.  . . . same 
> thing my pediatrician said.  I could not convince her otherwise.  I still 
> say mom/dad knowa best . . .
> William Heisler <mukeni@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I've heard radio programs that 
> discussed Australia's
> more aggressive public "health" programs that seek out
> Aboriginal children for multiple vaccinations at one
> time and how the mothers have become fearfull and hide
> from the authorities - one might suppose they have
> learned of a cause to hide.
>
> --- Jocelyn Knowd wrote:
>> 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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