Re: Autism - 7 year old speaks

My thoughts on a 7 year old's reaction to a video he saw about a parent blaming vaccinations causing autism in their child.

You can watch the video of the 7 year old here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUdYtDrIfRE

Category:

Education

Tags:

• autism
• asperger's
• syndrome
• autistic
• pdd-nos
• vaccinations
• cure
• vaccine

[calicatt2000]

I agree with your genetic viewpoint. However, I personally believe that people with autism are like social magnets for other people with autism (especially the non-diagnosed, high functioning ones i.e. "nerds".) These people tend to have similar interests, jobs, etc. Therefore, male and female Autistics meet, fall in love and have babies. Evidence: Silicon Valley's higher than normal rate of autism. What do you think?

[calicatt2000]

@calicatt2000 I wanted to add that not all of us are "nerds." That is a stereotype, I think the definition of "nerd" is kind of indicative of autism. From Merriam Webster online dictionary: "an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person; especially : one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits." So, I am not meaning to insult anyone or offend anyone. Although, I would not be put off if someone called me a nerd or a know it all. It happens. They're just jealous of our brains

[armankhodaei]

@calicatt2000 lol. I think nerd isn't seen as that bad these days. The dictionary needs to be slightly updated. Stylish and unattractive sounds more like a geek by today's standards. Not that there is anything wrong with being a geek or nerd. Society sure loves to put labels on everything.

[armankhodaei]

@calicatt2000 I've seen both autistic couples and couples where one person has autism and the other one doesn't. Yes, it is likely to fall for someone with common interests, but not all nerds fall on the spectrum. But, many do. I don't think this has as much with autism as it does sharing common interest which those interests may be as a result of being autistic.

[pcorf]

The biggest thing an autistic person struggles with is eye contact especially when they are anxious. You cannot cure autisim with medication. The only cure is your brain and the way you believe. I will always be autistic. As a child I struggled at school, and life was hard throughout my teenage years. I have written a book about my life and my experiences which will be published in about 6 months time. (Jan 2011)

[armankhodaei]

@pcorf What's the time of your book, and who is your publisher? I would love to read it when it comes out or sooner. If you have an advance reading copy I can review it on my YouTube channel if you like.

[ForeverYoungFamily]

I want to thank you for your video's. I am recently going through accepting that my son may (most likely is) autistic on some level. Seeing video's like this puts me at ease. For people like me that knew nothing, it can be a scary word and it's great to see people like you and the others on here... like that 7 year old boy. On vaccines, as a child, I had a total of 10 vaccines before school. There are now well over 30 shots. I think it started out a good thing, but has gotten out of hand.

[CJEB4]

I am not at all upset with the way my son "is" just the way he feels. The autism doesn't hurt his belly make him bite himself or put him in diapers- maybe vaccines cause heavy metal poisoning or viral issues, but the autism seems to be in the personality. I think the autistic personality is beautiful. If a child is cured maybe it was not a personality trait at all, maybe misdiagnosis of vaccine adverse reaction or heavy environmental exposure that went unnoticed due to the age it occured?

[TUI1889]

I totally aggree genetics is much better than giving your kid multiple vaccines that if you look at statistics of it people were better without quite a few of them the inscreasing number of illnesses from vaccines and what they are suppose to cure actually not so much make it worse yourself once you have had it but for your future generation makes it worse for them because it may be decreasing your chance of getting but increases when you reproduce.

[goatee98]

It's merely an increase in diagnosise

I myself have autism but am high fuctioning