STATEMENT ON TODAY’S NEW AUTISM NUMBERS 1 in 68 FROM LISA JOYCE GOES, PUBLISHED AUTHOR, CO-FOUNDER OF THINKING MOMS’ REVOLUTION AND MOTHER OF A CHILD WITH AUTISM
The new autism numbers, 1:68, are a national disgrace. The medical establishment, the government and those we trust to protect our children have failed miserably. The reality is we are no closer today than we were 25 years ago to knowing what causes autism or how to cure it.
While Rome burns, our leadership is fiddling with this autism crisis, and our children are paying the price. The numbers speak for themselves. Autism rates have soared unchecked from 1 in 10,000 in 1980 to today’s new number of 1 in 68. We are destroying generations of children, and it is time to make preventing and curing autism priority one as a nation.
Anyone who claims these new autism numbers are not a real increase, but simply better diagnosing, is not living in the real world. Check with the school systems, look on the playgrounds and walk around the malls, and you will see children with autism everywhere. This better diagnosing viewpoint is just smoke and mirrors. If this were true, then the medical establishment has been asleep at the wheel for the last three decades.
When it comes to autism, everything should be on the table in finding the cause and cure. We need to fund immediate independent research on what is causing autism in our children, including looking into environmental factors: vaccines and other medications, food additives, pesticides and other factors.
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You really make it seem so easy with your
presentation but I find this matter to be really something
that I think I would never understand. It seems too complicated and very broad
for me. I’m looking forward for your next post, I will try to get the hang of
it!
I wouldn’t put much stock in these stats. Stats that track the prevelance of a condition that is diagnostic and which is quite new, and of which the diagnosis is based entirely on someones observations (i.e. there are no decisive medical tests available for Autism).
I had an old aunt who ‘never learnt to talk’ and eventually in her 20’s went to live with the nuns and stayed with them her whole life. My son who is diagnosed with Autism also does not speak.
But he is the first person diagnosed with Autism in my family.
When my aunt was a child you didn’t have Autism, people were just ‘slow’ but I’d wager from the description of her that my son and her actually have/had the same thing.
However looking at pure stats would of course say there has been a dramatic increase in the prevelance of Autism in our family.
Nostromo, your experience is atypical. There are NOT a lot of aunts out there who “never learned to talk.” The vast majority of people I’ve spoken to who have children with regressive autism have NEVER had anyone with that kind of developmental disability in their families before. YOUR family may not be showing a greater prevalence, but that is NOT the case for many, many, many others.
Maybe so, but it is true on our case, and I also have an Uncle that in my opinion I’d definately call an Aspie. Also undiagnosed, but probably would be today.
I suspect in fact (but don’t know) that the increase in numbers in the CDC figures is among the population who are less obviously Autistic and who are now being diagnosed due to the fact there is more awareness amongst medical and lay people.
What I’d really like to know is if there is an increase in prevalence amongst those with greater level of disability such as my son. Does the CDC figures reveal anything in their stats about that? I..e. those who are nonverbal.
Dawn Koplos
I’m late to the table, because when I received my first message about the new autism prevalence rates today (now 1 in every 68 kids!) – it felt like someone stabbed me with an ice pick through my temple, my eye, and lodging into the bridge of my nose.
It still hurts.
I believe it is time for families of children and adults with autism to DEMAND answers. I don’t see how people aren’t screaming at the top of their lungs, running through the streets, “WTF is going on?!!”
Maybe it’s time to take a page from past civil rights movements.
Maybe it’s time for some CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
We’ve asked the powers that be nicely for too many f*cking years.
THIS IS A NATIONAL CRISIS… an URGENT situation.
We have been so busy trying to find ways to provide, find and figure out services to support our loved ones and friends affected by autism that we stopped DEMANDING answers… to the million dollar question, “WTF is going on?!!”
I propose we choose a day– a Monday for the most impact — and designate one main thoroughfare in each and every city and town across the country. Every one of us drives to the nearest gathering spot to us and helps barricade the entire road with our cars and our boxes of medical records, IEP meeting notices, letters from ignorant staff and school personnel, binders of gluten-casein free diets and recipes, books that we’ve purchased and shared with each other… I know you have at least ten boxes per child, right?
BLOCKADE THE ENTIRE SECTION OF PRATT STREET IN BALTIMORE CITY FROM HARBOR PLACE TO EASTERN AVENUE — with our cars and BOXES of autism crap… and meet on the side of the road (or in median strips depending on the town/street you are on)… and bring your kids if you’re brave… and at least bring a picnic lunch… and we will have a NATIONAL “WTF IS GOING ON?!?” “SIT IN” – blocking traffic and hitting people where it really matters — when it directly starts to impact THEIR LIVES, too (hey, it worked for Christie.)
And, do NOT stop until Autism is declared a NATIONAL EMERGENCY and keep DEMANDING answers until we know “WTF IS GOING ON?!”
#WTF_IS_GOING_ON!?? #CIVIL_RIGHTS #demand_the_truth
I’m sorry Kimmy. I’d have to have proof of your friend w unvaxd children and a autism dx. Un vaccinated children under today’s intense pressure are generally those who’s older sib was sacrificed and the parent spent every waking hour researching. Trolls be gone.
http://www.vaccinesuncensored.org/outdated.php
“What the promoters of vaccination fail to realize is that the respiratory tract of all mammals contain secretory IgA within the respiratory tract mucosa. Bypassing this mucosa aspect of the immune system directly injecting organism leads to a corruption of the immune system. As a result pathogenic viruses or bacteria cannot be eliminated by the immune system and remain in the body where they will further grow and/or mutate as the individual is exposed to ever more antigens and toxins in the environment. This is especially true with viruses grouped under the term “stealth adapted”…The mechanism by which the immune system is corrupted when you understand the two poles of the immunes system (the cellular and the humoral mechanism) have reciprocal relationship. Thus when one is stimulated the other is inhibited. Since vaccines activate the B cells to secrete antibody, the T cells are subsequently suppressed. This suppression of the cell mediated response is a key factor in the development of cancer and life threatening infections…”
Rebecca Carley MD, VIDS (vaccine induced diseases) Expert
Love what you have said here Lisa Joyce Goes, because you SPEAK THE TRUTH and you touch this veteran moms’s heart that has been battling the war and throws of autism with her daughter for 30 years! I wish I could turn back the hands of time and never have had my daughter receive that MMR vaccine. ..; it damaged her and me forever, and I will never be silent about this.
I respectfully encourage you to look into the intergenerational effects of topoisomerase interrupters as potential causes of the tragically high numbers of children with autism. Specifically, fluoroquinolone antibiotics – Cipro/ciprofloxacin, Levaquin/levofloxacin, Avelox/moxifloxacin and Floxin/ofloxacin – are topoisomerase II an IV interrupters. Topoisomerase function is necessary for proper gene expression. Here is an article that specifically links topoisomerase interrupting drugs to the triggering of expression of autism related genes – http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7465/full/nature12504.html (Nature, 2013). Here is a post that I wrote on the topic – http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/09/18/a-horrifying-cause-of-autism-dna-damage-from-synthetic-antibiotics/ It should also be noted that fluoroquinolones damage mitochodria by depleting mtDNA and that damaged mitochondria can produce ROS that can affect gene expression. Here is a post about that – http://www.hormonesmatter.com/mitochondrial-damage-diverse-symptoms/
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Regards,
Lisa Bloomquist
Lisa, we were antibiotic-induced autism. No question. I will contact you from your blog. Interesting work you are doing. Patricia.
Autism is caused by vaccines and GMO’S. ..do your own research
Agreed, 100%. Way past time for “it’s not vaccines” to be revisited… that is, honestly investigated for the first time. But how to get the people who caused and perpetuate the problem to admit it?
My friend has 3 children. 2 with autism. Not one of them has ever received a vaccine. Explain how vaccines caused autism in her children?
Easy.
Smoking cause cancer.
Not all smokers get cancer. Not all people with cancer are smokers.
Same logic.
Just because it didn’t cause her kiddos autism, doesn’t mean it didn’t cause it in mine:-)
Jillian’s reply is excellent. No one has ever said ALL autism is caused by vaccines. Chances are good that some other environmental factors are at play, common ones include antibiotic use and general anesthesia.
Did the mom get mercury-containing Rhogam or any vaccine when she was pregnant? Many newborns have been given the hep-B vaccine at the hospital when they were born without ever informing the parents. Has she looked at her children’s hospital record to see if hep-B vaccine is checked off? Kim Stagliano said that might be what happened to cause her daughters’ autism, after hearing from me, Judy Converse, and others how their newborns were given this criminal vaccine without permission at birth, and they reacted with vaccine encephalitis and autism. The only Amish boy with autism lived near a mercury-producing electrical plant, so heavy metal toxicity from other sources is a possibility. But there’s no doubt that vaccines are the number one cause of autism, causing maybe 99.999% of cases.
Well said, and keep up the good work!
Vaccination is a national disgrace. Every one of them insults the immune system, bypassing an unreproducible cascade of essential circulatory system safeguards.