The majority of areas of autism clustering were characterized by high parental education; parents who were more likely to have been immunize beginning 1971 (and booster 1989) .
At the prenatal and neonatal stages of life, the presence of antibodies is provided by passive immunization from the mother. Children are born with an immune system that is already capable of recognizing an antigen and responds faster upon exposure.
If Autism is the result of an aberrant immune response, should newborns be tested to determine their levels of immunity prior to their inoculations?
If found to be present, is it possible that there may be a link regarding dose sensitivity (the dosage of the infant's future inoculations) causing side effects like autism?
Kathleen Dooleyof NJ1:21PM March 13, 2010
Here is a recent dialogue between myself and Lindsay M. Oberman, Ph.D. on the topic of autism. It is very relevant and important to the discussion at
of 5:27PM March 08, 2010
Here is a recent dialogue between myself and Lindsay M. Oberman, Ph.D. on the topic of autism. It is very relevant and important to the discussion at hand.
Hi Lindsay. You are very welcome. You said previously:
"I have heard anecdotally that people with ASD get less sleep, and perhaps that could also explain the increased, but not stable connectivity that we are seeing in the ASD brain."
My reply to Lindsay was:
"Sleep (and dreams) add to the integrated extensiveness of being, experience, and thought, thereby improving attention and memory.
Indeed, dreams make thought more like sensory experience in general, thereby improving both memory and understanding.
The increased connectivity is understood as reducing what would otherwise be the balanced/stable and integrated extensiveness of their thought and experience."
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Autism is a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being, experience, and consciousness.
Frank Martin DiMeglioof MD5:27PM March 08, 2010
What will it take to understand how serious autism is? Indeed, autism is a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being, experience, and consciousness. Biological toxicity/damage/disorder in autism as it pertains to memory is most important.
In helping the autistic child, it is important to understand what memory is and does. The problem regarding the impairment/loss of memory in autism is very serious.
The following will provide an expanded and accurate description and understanding of memory that will be of considerable benefit/use:
Memory integrates experience and is necessary for the improved integration of a greater totality of experience; and here lies its connection with the advancement of consciousness. Memory increases (or adds to) the extensiveness, desirability, predictability, and intentionality of experience. Memory is an aid with regard to the extensiveness of intentionality in regard to experience. The loss (or reduction) in both memory and the intentionality of experience that occurs in the dream helps to explain why we are basically (or significantly) without the use of our body therein.
The generally disordered/improper/reduced functioning of memory in autism is of very serious concern.
Frank Martin DiMeglioof MD3:55PM March 07, 2010
What will it take to understand how serious autism is? Indeed, autism is a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being, experien
of 3:55PM March 07, 2010
The following is essential to understanding the "big picture" and biology of autism:
The fact that autism is a disintegration, contraction
of 3:26PM March 07, 2010
The following is essential to understanding the "big picture" and biology of autism:
The fact that autism is a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being, experience, and consciousness is consistent with toxicity/damage/disorder.
The NUMEROUS vaccines are biologically active, and yet they are unnatural and foreign to the body. So when the body THEN reacts as if it is infected with disease (via antibodies/immune responses), is it not diseased/ill/damaged/infected to some extent? All of these NUMEROUS and altered/unnatural immune responses/vaccinations will eventually compromise our immune function.
Autism also involves a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of memory, feeling, thought, and emotion. Importantly, autism may be usefully understood as involving BIOLOGICAL toxicity/disorder/damage that relates to, involves, or pertains to thought, memory, feeling, and emotion.
Frank Martin DiMeglioof MD3:26PM March 07, 2010
Hi, I am a mother of 2 boys. My eldest son who is 2.2 years old is vaccinated as per the recommended government schedule and is doing well. My second son is 6.5 months old and is also vadcinated and doing well. Despit this, I am having serious doubts about continuing with the recommended vaccination schedule for my children. I am scared to vaccinate and scared not to vaccinate - I just don't know what to do.
Connie4:54AM March 05, 2010
my daughter was a normal 5 month old who was doing everything she should at that age. and she went in to get her 2nd dpt shot and is dieing everday before my eyes right after the shot she went into a 3 hour seizer that the doctors could not stop. during it she had 2 strokes she lost so much brain mas and more , i could go on and on she is now 4 years old she is blind ,deaf ,she eats threw a tube she dont talk she can not sit up on her own she suffers everday i have to have 24 hour care for her and to watch her die every day knowing that it could be her last day i have fought and have won ya they addmit that it is all due to her shot but they can not bring my baby back for god sakes she can not even hold her head up autism is not the word for her she is a vegtibal in a hospitol bed and knows nouthing of what go on around her every day none of my children get these shots and i have 3 outher children a 14 year old a 8 year old and a 5 month old you could not pay me enough money to go threw the pain i go threw every day.
kristinaof FL2:51PM February 21, 2010
Hi Melissa...I am a mother that shares your concerns. I have refused vaccinations for my second son several times because my gut said no. Since the vaccination schedule went from 11 shots to 36 shots in the 1990's, we have seen autism go from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 110. It's scary. There are those that laugh at it and say that there is no link at all and then you listen to mothers who wish they could turn back the clock. What are we supposed to believe? About thimerosal, it was in many of the shots in the 90's and still exists in the flu shots and I believe the DTAP shot as well. You can ask your doctor to see the "vaccine insert" which tells you specifically what is in the vaccine. You can also see it online too I believe if you google the vaccine. I've heard of mothers saying that they asked for a vaccine without thimerosal only to find out later that it did have it in it. Even the thimerisol free flu shot has traces of it in it. Best bet is to get as much info as you can and go with your gut... Check out www.generationrescue.org and www.nvic.org for some helpful information...take care and best wishes to you
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