Autism and Vaccinations
Jun. 11th, 2007 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdToday feels like a rant day.
There be much talk about how vaccinations cause autism. To which I say Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit. Shall I say it again? Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Now, why do I say that it is complete and utter bullshit? Because it was around before it got diagnosed.
Let me explain- (and not summarize) In the non-autistic world there are disabilities like Epilepsy, Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar disorder etc, etc, etc that existed long before people had a name for it. Diagnosing things is a relatively new idea. I mean the DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manual) is only on edition number four. It was only around Freud's time (I think) that the idea of mental disorders were created and around then then. As well as the fact that there might be something "medically" wrong with someone as opposed to being possessed by evil spirits or demons etc. According to Wikipedia, "The word "autism" was first used in the English language by Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler in a 1911 issue of the American Journal of Insanity."[1] Mandatory vaccinations didn't really start around the same time.
Parents in this one case say that thimerosal caused their daughter to become autistic.[2]. However, thimersoal wasn't created until 1929.[3] This then begs the question, if autism was first "diagnosed" in 1911, how did they become autistic by a chemical in a vaccination that hadn't been discovered yet? Especially if the children were diagnosed with autism were probably not vaccinated at all.
The answer to this is very simple: Vaccinations do not cause autism.
It took me fifteen minutes to do this research on the internet.
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There be much talk about how vaccinations cause autism. To which I say Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit. Shall I say it again? Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Now, why do I say that it is complete and utter bullshit? Because it was around before it got diagnosed.
Let me explain- (and not summarize) In the non-autistic world there are disabilities like Epilepsy, Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar disorder etc, etc, etc that existed long before people had a name for it. Diagnosing things is a relatively new idea. I mean the DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manual) is only on edition number four. It was only around Freud's time (I think) that the idea of mental disorders were created and around then then. As well as the fact that there might be something "medically" wrong with someone as opposed to being possessed by evil spirits or demons etc. According to Wikipedia, "The word "autism" was first used in the English language by Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler in a 1911 issue of the American Journal of Insanity."[1] Mandatory vaccinations didn't really start around the same time.
Parents in this one case say that thimerosal caused their daughter to become autistic.[2]. However, thimersoal wasn't created until 1929.[3] This then begs the question, if autism was first "diagnosed" in 1911, how did they become autistic by a chemical in a vaccination that hadn't been discovered yet? Especially if the children were diagnosed with autism were probably not vaccinated at all.
The answer to this is very simple: Vaccinations do not cause autism.
It took me fifteen minutes to do this research on the internet.
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