Autism loosely defined is quite common among UK adults, according to a
survey by Professor Terry Brugha, Professor of Psychiatry in a UK
Department of Health Sciences (reviewed in 1).
In contrast, long-time special education teachers in the US generally
describe that, in recent years, there are far more children with
impairments than had been the case 2 or 3 decades ago. Pediatricians, their trade organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the NIH's Thomas Insel, and the CDC may have failed to notice such children, but elementary school teachers
and special education teachers didn't.
An internet posting and a book (2, 3-5) present an explanation of the
UK findings which media touted as autistic traits common in adults.
Perhaps what Dr. Brugha found was largely an effect of what Grace E.
Jackson, M.D. refers to as "drug-induced dementia" (3-5). A
generalization may be in order.
When considered together,
drug-induced and
pollution-induced dementias may encompass more of the
etiologically relevant processes. Note that businesses based upon
patented pharmaceuticals for treating dementia, mood disorders, ADHD,
and so many other syndromes profit as a result of policies whereby
pollutants are allowed, whether iatrogenically or via societal policies
regarding industrial waste.
2)
Comment in response to John Stone's AoA
essay (1)
Posted by: Gatogorra |
October
07, 2009 at 10:19 AM
3)
Drug-Induced Dementia: a perfect crime
Grace E. Jackson, MD
http://www.authorhouse.com/BOOKSTORE/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=61466
4) review of:
Drug induced dementia — the perfect crime
(by Grace Jackson, MD)
2009 June 8
by giannakali
http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/drug-induced-dementia/
5) Amazon link
Drug-Induced Dementia: a perfect crime
by MD Grace E. Jackson
http://www.amazon.com/Drug-Induced-Dementia-MD-Grace-Jackson/dp/1438972318/
I'm in the midst of reading a book right now-- "Drug-Induced Dementia: The Perfect Crime"-- that has me convinced that Brugha's study may very easily be including adult-onset drug induced dementias (rates which are also exploding) and trying to pass them off as childhood-onset autism. In point of fact, there are some terrible similarities between all these conditions since apparently the effects of certain psychoactive drugs mimic much of the specific oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction seen in vaccine injuries and even environmental schizophrenia. The symptom profile for drug-induced brain injury is frighteningly similar but on close inspection (which Brugha avoided), the differences could be seen, particulraly in terms of history of onset and health history. Stereotypes, OCD, robotic behavior, violent outbursts, severe sensory disorders, tics and seizures, emotional withdrawal, speech and language disorders are all part and parcel with drug injuries.
I know the author was conscious of the overlaps becuase I corresponded with her about it in 2007 when she was in the midst of writing the book. She described herself as a fan of Dr. Wakefield, found his theory brilliant and answered some of my questions about ways in which drugs can induce many of the same cellular markers and clinical symptoms of autism.
It occurred to me that some of the individuals in the study themselves might also try to pass themselves off as autistic because of the very slim margin by which ASD may be less socially stigmatized (just at the moment due to industry's positive-poster-childing of individuals with autism) at least relative to straight out brain damage in all its modern, pharmaceutically-mediated forms ("bipolar disorder", OCD, etc.).
It's predictable that those with moderate-but-non-autistic vaccine/environmental injuries twenty or so years ago could have been made worse over the years. Many of the typical methods of "treating" vaccine injured children, whether they're subclinically injured and labeled "ADHD" or noticably injured and labeled ASD, worsen the specific damage wrought by vaccines on a cellular level, including the destruction of glutathione. It's not at all unlikely that a child born in 1980 who developed either mild behavioral issues or seizures from that year's batch of shots and who went on to be treated for years with either stimulants or anticonvulsants (or both and more), could conceivably have gone from mildly learning impaired and non-autistic to crossing the least severe edge of the spectrum eventually.
The perfect crime indeed. We have to demand better substantiation of the health histories of those being deemed "adults with autism". This is fraud.