Page 2 of this thread is so full of dumbassery that it's sad.
You guys keep beating the "it's not real" drum all you want and try to oversimplify it all wrapped nicely with a bow - if it makes you feel better about your flawed arguments. You're believing what you want to believe. It's not just labels. But hey don't let it stop your witch hunt for Jenny McCarthy. I'm sure you are all experts on how the brain behaves in these situations, brain chemicals, imbalances, hormone levels and the anatomy of anything similar in general. Saying that "a good ass beating will fix em up" borderlines on idiotic medieval thinking. Sounds like something that a dumb fucking redneck would say.
Besides if you don't believe in autism or a link to it, then what do you care? It's not hurting you if someone else does. If you believe in the vaccination then get it. You'll be covered. Nothing will touch you. Right?
I usually get amusement out of watching people pretend to know so much about something they actually know so little about but in this case it's just pathetic. Wes and cct are about the only ones remotely making any sense.
What? You are thinking that I don't think autism (and ADD/ADHD for that mattter) is real? Laughable at best. Never not once have I even come close to saying that. I question the link between vaccines and autism.
You know your my boy blue, but all that above? Full of fail. On many levels.
You guys are really mixing together unofficial labels (from a school, parent, teacher whoever) and official diagnosises which take shitloads of extensive tests and months to conduct. Heresay and misinformation are a real bitch.
I am taking it directly from the young lady's parents as what the doctor (who did shitloads of extensive tests over the course of three or four years at Hopkins, UAB, Mayo and places like that) told them. CCTAU asked why is it on the rise? I gave an example of how someone was diagnosed with CDD 14 + years ago, but is now labeled autistic. The DSM-5 that the APA uses is now labeling Asperger's as autism. Just giving reasons as to why the numbers
might "be on the rise" b/c things that were previously listed not under autism now are.
Is Asperger's really a form of autism? Fuck if I know and fuck if you know either. Medical experts can't even agree on it, but it is being labeled that now. You seriously don't think that a rise in numbers could also be coming from the fact that there was no awareness 10, 15, 20, 25 years ago and children were "diagnosed" or "labeled" with something different? I am not denying the existence of any of the previously mentioned diseases at all. I am not saying it isn't real, we know it's real, but does vaccines cause it? If it does then there are a lot of doctors that need to be lined up and shot for suggesting them.
I just disagree with a celebrity screaming from the top of her lungs and organizing a movement to not have your kids vaccinated b/c it causes autism without having any science or real hardcore proof behind it. We have the worst Measles outbreak in decades, a breakout in Whooping Cough, and it's due to anti-vaxers. Again, parents, individual choice, but don't expect me to treat you like some hero for being an anti-vaxer when outbreaks like this occur.
Their argument is based solely on one article from the 90s that was later retracted by Lancet (a major journal like that rarely retracts an article) and the author lost his license and is now scorned by the entire medical community b/c he was bought off to say there was a link. Still not saying their isn't, we simply don't know, but I have a hard time telling my sons pediatrician no thanks, google and all those FB post tell me I don't need to.
For those who might be interested in the wealth and autism thing I was talking about earlier.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2010/07/14/autism-and-wealth/#.UzSCvl42wmVShould also note that McCarthy has now reversed her position on MMR shots and now says that her kid shows no signs of autism b/c he never really had it.
http://hollywoodlife.com/2010/02/26/jenny-mccarthy-says-her-son-evan-never-had-autism/ That is what is pissed me off about her. She gets people in an uproar and gets people to not vaccinate their children b/c it gave her son something he never really had in the first place, but she was sure of it.