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Annika's avatar

I was given a link to 'Neurotribes' by a then-friend years ago. Not surprisingly we are no longer in contact. Unreal how many, including autism parents, have been nudged away from the root cause search in this way. I love JB Handley's simple and easy to execute suggestion to simply return to 1985 vaccine schedule and ingredients - as a way to test this genetics argument.

Us parents are getting louder and thanks to JB's influence on spelling bursting out, our KIDS are getting louder. This dam has to break! Thx for this article on today's press conference.

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Cia Parker's avatar

Going back to the 1985 schedule means including the devastatingly dangerous pertussis vaccine. See Vaccine Roulette and A Shot in the Dark. The newer acellular pertussis vaccine is still very dangerous. My newborn reacted to the hep-B vaccine with four days and nights of encephalitic screaming syndrome. After three DTaPs, she got pertussis anyway, because the vaccine is ineffective. She was saying two words at 18 months, uh for up at the playground, and uff when she saw a dog from her stroller. When she got the DTaP at that time, it erased her only words and she was diagnosed with autism two months later, at 20 months. I’d like to discontinue the pertussis vaccine, but give (and observe results) of only the DT. Also dicontinue the MMR, very dangerous, and given in 1985. Consider what to do about rubella for girls of childbearing age. Just an R (although it causes arthritis), the nosode, or expose girls to natural rubella. In other years, to natural measles, mumps, and chickenpox. And recored outcomes.

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On the Kaministiquia's avatar

The first time I ever heard of autism was from the 1988 film Rain Man. Recently, I've thought it curious that Hollywood would make this film, normalizing even celebrating autism, just as the autism epidemic took up. Was this a mere coincidence or was it intentional? I think it's probably the latter.

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Seamus Mahoney's avatar

Known in Health & Safety as 'Normalisation of Error', where constant exposure to a bad practice or belief down - regulates the appropriate response to the Error / behaviour to the end point of being oblivious...

Hollywood has been using film as psy-op weapons since it's beginning...

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D M Barr's avatar

The FIRST case of autism was in 1943. Two years earlier was when mercury and aluminum were introduced into vaccines. There are at least 10 books, with literally thousands of references, that clearly show that vaccines are the CAUSE of the following disorders in children and then these carry over to adolescents and (if still alive) adults:

SIDS

Autism

Neurodevelopmental disorders

ADHD

Autoimmune disorders

Speech delay

Reading and learning disorders

Childhood RA

Childhood psoriasis

Inflammatory bowel disease

Asthma

Immune diabetes

(and there are more)

PROOF? Yes. None of these has ever occurred in a non-vaccinated human.

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Tonya's avatar

It's wrong to say that none of these occur in unvaccivated individuals, but it is extremely rare. (Actually rare, not the "rare" the doctors claim about adverse events.)

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Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

DM Barr, you’ll like my article becuase I dove into the very first case of autism in 43: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/stop-calling-it-autism-start-calling

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Coprophilic Wellness's avatar

"PROOF? Yes. None of these has ever occurred in a non-vaccinated human."

Get real. How can you expect to be taken seriously?

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Nancy Parsons's avatar

I agree with everything you said, but it's more accurate to say that the first case of autism "was reported" in 1943. About a person who was identified as an infant and was born in 1931. Doesn't mean everything else you mentioned isn't urgently important. It is.

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Coprophilic Wellness's avatar

Wrong. See my other comment, if you care to know why.

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Tonya's avatar

I don't see any other comments from you. Can you direct me to it?

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Coprophilic Wellness's avatar

The first known use of the word "autism" was in 1911 by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (from the Greek autos, meaning "self") to describe a symptom of schizophrenia—a tendency to withdraw into one's own world and detach from reality. It was not initially used as a standalone diagnosis, but rather as a description of a psychological state.

In 1943, Dr. Leo Kanner in the United States redefined the term in his paper "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact," describing 11 children with a unique pattern of behavior. This marked the beginning of autism as a distinct diagnosis.

In 1944, Hans Asperger in Austria independently described a similar group of children, leading to what was later termed Asperger's Syndrome.

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Coprophilic Wellness's avatar

It's not that people with this cluster of behaviors didn't exist previously. There are plenty of reports in early 20th century medical literature - but the concept, as its own diagnosis was recognized in 1943, and the term used.

But yes, the prevalence of the diagnosis has certainly increased.

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Spergy's avatar

I think this might be the best newsletter on Substack.

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Rebecca Borrelli's avatar

I recall a few years ago listening to Mark Hyman share research that came out when he was at the Cleveland Clinic. Children, many with severe Autism, were having documented and significant reduction in their symptoms from fecal transplant, combined with heavy metal detox… among other functional interventions. Indeed, their gut brain axis was in chaos. I’ve been waiting for this research to hit mainstream… still crickets. It seems to suggest a severe diagnosis doesn’t in fact, mean a lifetime of helplessness, that is the present reality for many. Thank you so much for your work, and writing.

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Hélène's avatar

Man I can’t stand these ppl claiming brains on fire are special & good.

The child’s.brain is on.FIRE. Put it out. Figure it out. Resolve it.

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Henry's avatar

Dr Chris Exley points out one caution on these high (1in36 etc) numbers:

"We need a definition for autism that only includes individuals where there is clear evidence of brain damage, often an encephalopathy. These are the unnecessary cases of what is now called autism. These are the cases of autism that can and should be prevented. All other current diagnoses of autism are not brain damage, they cannot and should not be prevented and, indeed they ought to be celebrated as the diversity that is humankind. If these individuals are included in any future study of vaccines and autism they will simply help to prove the null hypothesis. Hence why organisations such as the CDC are not against publishing and supporting data purporting that 1 in 36 infants in the US is autistic."

https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/the-cdc-vaccines-and-autism

CDC likes them inflated as it helps 'dilute the autism signal' in vax-unvax studies.

Fair point?

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Tonya's avatar

I disagree with Dr. Exley on this point.

"All other current diagnoses of autism are not brain damage, they cannot and should not be prevented and, indeed they ought to be celebrated as the diversity that is humankind."

The diagnoses are based on level of dysfunction. If kids are struggling enough to warrant a diagnosis, why would we celebrate that?

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Kalle Pihlajasaari's avatar

The CDC is playing every game they can to hide any facts. The main thrust is trying to pretend that the 98% is part of the 2% and that does not get diluted.

If over 98% of autism is caused by vaccine injury then the other less than 2% who may well be otherwise injured or naturally atypically neurodivergent will not change the numbers enough to make any real difference. If we prevent the 98 from happening we could afford to cherish the remaining 2%. As it is now the cost of looking after the 100% is going to be high and all of them will be short changed.

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Anne Dachel's avatar

Dr. Zahorodny has been saying that the increases in autism are real. He’s been saying this for two decades. He is the top researcher on the autism rate in the US. Why has the CDC always denied a real increase?

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Nancy Parsons's avatar

Follow the money.

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STH's avatar

Because their schedule is responsible for it.

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MKnight's avatar

I shared part of Kennedy’s speech on social media today. And finally publicly declared that I’m with him on this issue. And got a frantic message from an old BCBA that declared that RFK is literally calling for the death of all autistic people. And how could I support that for my kids? Don’t I want them to exist??

The brainwashing in this community is severe. And it makes me sad.

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Mark Duncan Stuart's avatar

Since it's estimated that just over 25% of autistic people are profoundly autistic (e.g., need around-the-clock care, are non-verbal, wear diapers and/or helmets), then you should find that about 1 in 125 people are profoundly autistic.

Since profoundly autistic people tend to be easier to spot than those who are often referred to as high-functioning, you have to ask where are the 0.8% of people who are profoundly autistic?

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MKnight's avatar

They don’t go out. They are clustered in classrooms and schools that are now full to the breaking point.

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william schneider's avatar

Go JB, Go. Keep the truth coming!! The truth will win!!

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Peter Graziano's avatar

I myself am autistic (level 1, obviously). I am well aware that my lower functioning confreres seem very different from those of us who are more like Shawn Murphy, Sheldon Cooper, or Data. Still, I can look at my own internal state, and see how if my own struggles were to be seriously exacerbated, then they would look very much like those of the nonverbal (and indeed, on some of my very bad days, I can be almost nonverbal). My father has a similar level of symptoms (and he was, for that reason, the most resistant to my own autism diagnosis, since it was all normal to him). For this reason, I suspect that both things can be true at once: there is a hereditary component that would create the “oh, autism is a superpower (hee hee)” effect, but also there is at least one, and probably many more than one, environmental toxin that ramps certain aspects of it up to the level of serious disability.

As a note: the thing that has most helped reduce the number of bad days I have has been a course of intravenous ketamine and a persistent clinical level ketogenic diet.

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Tonya's avatar

Tell me more about how you ended up trying a ketogenic diet. I am very interested in its effects on various mental health conditions and neurological disorders.

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Peter Graziano's avatar

Luck, essentially. Or Divine Providence. A therapist recommended I look into IV ketamine (for persistent depression, anxiety, and OCD, aka how high functioning autism looks in adults) and connected me with https://www.loricalabresemd.com. She took care of the rest.

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Paul G Taylor's avatar

"It’s a lie that extends the suffering of so many children."

and exposes even more children to the severely debilitating causes, which, in my opinion, has narrowed down to the aluminum adjutants in the many vaccines injected into their bodies, from the first day after birth and onward,

Read →

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Knotgrass's avatar

So grateful to witness this finally happening! My son was part of the class autism action lawsuit in the 2000’s. There isn’t enough words to thank secretary Kennedy and President Trump!!!!

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Roxanne Drucker's avatar

My daughter diagnosed in 1991. Thank you for sharing the truth.

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Eccentrik's avatar

Great writeup!

also interesting to note are studies that find significantly higher levels of the vaccine adjuvant aluminum in the brains of autistic individuals... https://eccentrik.substack.com/p/new-paper-evidence-showing-childhood

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