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Kev asks this in a comment on the post on Jenny McCarthy, Autism Mother.
This is the DSM-IV‘s criteria.
Kev asks this in a comment on the post on Jenny McCarthy, Autism Mother.
This is the DSM-IV‘s criteria.
trust me. it is definitely in the genes. i wish that i could answer some questionaire with everything that i know. to help asd.
The comments regarding vaccines causing autism stem from a mercury impurity that seemed to affect the synapse formation of some neurons. The thing is most vaccines no longer have mercury, but they do have preservatives. Some of it effects cholinergic symptoms and nerve growth factors, so there is some actual science behind some of those claims. However, preservatives are in everything, and well that’s the reason behind cancer, and a number of illness. So, maybe there is a link, but mostly autism is probably a genetic thing that has to do with genes, and weak links with nutrition and vaccines.
However, I can say that DaVinci had autism and many historical notable figures have, and that it is a paternally inherited disorder mostly. You can control it based on nutrition and eating natural foods, that’s what I do, and it really helps, your gut is your second brain, and that’s were most of your neurotransmitters get produced: ie. serotonin- which controls all else.
I don’t feel that I’m ill because of my autism. Having a strong autism supportive parent is very important. I would suggest you look at the neurexin-1 genes to see the science behind autism and Aspergers, and to look and fund Dr. Sudhof’s work on autism. It really is a genetically spliced variant of autism that leads to autism, in a way it’s evolution at work. THe offspring are really evolved humans, it’s mother nature way of adaptation. So, if the mutation is more noticeable, then it’s because the environment is requiring these adaptations for survival. This is the reason why it’s important to not heavily medicate us, I know medication for me was very painful. Small doses of THC brownies, once or twice a week help, as does talk therapy, and a nicotine patch. The autism makes our nicotinic receptors over active and the lithium-nicotine content of the nicotine patches really helps. As does caffeine. It beats medication, those side effects are horrid. I’ve tried all of them, and have been allergic to most, very very small doses of medication do help if all else fails. Dairy free, sugar free, and sticking to corn, brown rice, and mostly fiber, and low fat really really does wonders for my stomach, as does eating natural foods. Our bodies are wired differently. We’re different.
Jenny, Jenny, Jenny.
It’s ONE thing to want to share an inspiring story like Monica’s to the world because SHE is the amazing one, NOT YOU. How does making hypocrital stereotypical comments about men on Oprah’s show help your cause??
Didn’t Jim add a chapter in your little “warrior” book on that you SHOULDN’T say things like “a good man is hard to find..” Are you SERIOUS Jenny McCarthy???? “There’s not too many real men”?? Have you watched the news about these bitches abandoning their kids, and OH, let’s NOT forget the Casey Anthony ‘s of the world and the numbers of these brain-dead females are GROWING. Oh and remeber YOUR wild days of the 1990′s, you bleached headed floozy??? Using your sons preposed autism to snipe at men?? Stupid bitch. You haven’t had much of a career, you act like some hyper-active moron anyway, now you can basicly add outright IDIOT. Of course we all know how stupid that brown bean-bag Oprah is, the ONLY decent thing she’s done is endorse Obama.
All mom’s are “warriors” huh?? Well, someone tell the Casey Anthonys of the world ” it’s ok to kill your kid because Jenny’s dumb ass supports you!”
Oh, OF COURSE I can’t forget these self-centered so-called “independent” materialistic gold-digging females who only want to be with a man when he’s got MONEY and use their bodies to minipulate and get what they want crying like Jenny about a “good man” then dogging him out at her leasure.
Way to go Jenny McCarthy you’re still a worthless fake hypocritical nobody.
Speaking of Holly Robinson Pete, I saw when she was on Oprah with Jenny. I know a lot of people think it’s the vaccines that are making our kids develop Autism. Well what I wanted to bring up is Holly has twins one was diagnosed with Autism and the other wasn’t, and I’m sure they were taken to the doctor to receive vacinnes at the same time. Funny how they don’t bring up that fact. Even with Jenny, I’ve heard her say her son showed some signs before the vaccines.
When my son was diagnosed, my husband set out to better understand autism. After reading for about an hour, he turned to me with an exasperated look and announced what I already knew, “Damn, I’m autistic!” I snickered. At that time, it was comforting to me to “blame” what I was looking at as a terrible diagnosis, on my husband’s genetics. Since my time of “grieving” I have come to much better terms with my son’s diagnosis and was able to see some other things much clearer. I have traits myself.
This woman at work, late 40′s. She had heart issues as a child. I guess she still has some cardiac issues. While we all love her, she’s one of those people you avoid striking up conversation with because she’ll go on and on. One day, it hit me like a ton of bricks…she’s AS!! Undiagnosed, I’m sure…but it’s there.
Funny, because in *my* family, autism comes from my mother’s side. My mom has Asperger’s too. We all understand sarcasm and have a great sense of humour, by the way.
Beyond that, I don’t give a whit about whether or not Jenny is or is not autistic. Even if she is, I doubt she *suffers* from it.
Autism is a disorder that is generally inherited by a sibling from the paternal father. As such it would be logical to conclude that Jenny McCarthy’s son acquired autism from his paternal father. Since Ms. McCarthy has a sense of humor and seems to understand sarcasm, I would highly doubt that she too suffers from autism. I’m an autistic female and I know that in my case, my father shares some autistic qualities and that autism does run in my mother’s family as well. However, my mother does not suffer from Asperger’s autism.
You mean you didn’t KNOW Jenny McCarthy?!? How DARE you not pay attention to B-rated actresses/Playboy bunnies! For shame!
Cliff
What an interesting title to this, caught my eye and had to check it out. I saw a flyer recently where Jenny is the guest speaker and a parent to a child with autism, so guess she is still using that. She was obviously different on all the shows. I remember when I got a TACA newsletter long ago and it mentioned she would be at the picnic and I thought who is she? I looked around and found her Indigo site, which disappeared before her book was finished.
Someone commented above about the headline on People magazine, they obviously overestimate the control a subject of a story has on the media outlet who writes and promotes the story.
Anyway, echoing another poster, if the spectrum is defined broadly enough, everyone is on it. I “tuned out” of mainstream media starting about 1990-1995, so I really don’t know much of Jenny from “direct” observation. However, it takes a certain kind of warped personality to stand directly in that bright a publicity spotlight for that long, certainly less than 1 in 150 do so.
My favorite quote on life in general comes from Kim Peek (the real Rain Man): “Everybody is different.” Hearing that from him puts a big kink in the underlying fabric of the “all men are created equal” society.
As a matter of fact, I am the mother of a child on the spectrum and he’s been on a dairy free diet for months now just like Jenny’s son, I pulled the dairy from his diet long before she even came out and started speaking about her son.All I can say is that within a week of not being on dairy , he stopped repeating himself, so people shouldn’t bash her for coming out and talking about this.
Thank You
I agree with chasity, people should stop bashing Jenny McCarthy for trying to give other moms hope.
I think (MOI) should get your facts straight before you go bashing a mom that is just trying to save her son, Jenny never said she didn’t want her son called autistic, Holly Robinson Pete did. And since when did giving other moms hope that there is help and autism can be turned around such a bad thing?
Kev2, I appreciate your bringing up the topic. There are so many questions and disputes about diagnosis and how it is tied into the prevalence of autism, and it’s even being disputed whether or not McCarthy’s son is autistic or not. I guess we’d all have to see and spend some time with him to truly know.
Thank you again.
Btw I have a hard time saying I’m sorry. I get confused about timing and don’t know what I’m doing half the time. I apologize for the diagnosis thing.
..and yes I’m an egomaniac just like the rest of us.
(New nickname to prevent confusion..)
RAJ: I wouldn’t be surprised if they were, would you?
Joel talked a bit about this here.
Ummm… the thing about UCLA is a myth. I’ve worked with them as a low-functioning kid (no words, stim behaviors, etc.) to know that’s not the case. That’s where Lovass was for his clinical ABA programs.
And her son does show autistic behaviors in the home videos, and McCarthy does a good enough job describing the symptoms. So even if I heavily disagree with her course of action, her son is certainly autistic.
Where she is wrong as well is where she “cured” her kid. I know from experience, having been the “cured” kid. That myth was shattered in time.
Cliff
Jenny McCarthy’s son does NOT have autism!!!
And what kind of imbecilic, or worse, profit hungry doctor would make a drive by diagnosis on a child? I’ll tell you what kind of doctor. Notice how the doctor who did diagnose McCarthy’s son works at UCLA, the same medical facitliy that only caters to high functioning or misdiagnosed children so they can keep the research funds going……HOw deplorable! Look what’s happening here folks! Autism is becoming a fad, a sure way to make money in an industry that thrives off the autism diagnosis on NON autistic children. Think about it. If professionals keep misdiagnosing children with autism, and more and more “autistic” kids get “cured” then more and more research funds roll in and more and more confusion surrounds those who are severely autistic and are, as such, pushed to the back of the line, as colllateral damage.
If Kev wants to diagnose celebrities with Asperger Syndrome based on DSM-IV criteria, then he should have the intellectual honesty of placing Adolph Hitler, Saddam Hussein and Stalin on the autism spectrum. They all meet one of the defining characteristics of ‘autism’ a pervasive lack of empathy for other human beings with Hilter and Hussein ordering the execution of their own relatives.
Psychobabble.