Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

[Roxter]

Does anyone here have it? What's your personal thought about it, and the controversial or excellent therapies we have today (example, many believe that vaccines cause autism because of the mercury).

Speaking from someone who has it, I believe that we are on the right path with certain therapies. If a high-functioning autistic were to go into one of the therapy programs, I have seen many show improvement, including myself: I can remember better and do math better after taking one myself. We should fund research more, I believe though. I don't think many of the prescriptions often prescribed for autistic people work though and just cause side effects - I'm trying to get off them myself, but my doctor doesn't agree. All it's done is made me gain weight and not work other than that.

I don't believe that this "vaccines cause autism" debate is true. Sure, they have mercury, which can cause things in your brain, but at least it's not as bad as lead - something proven to give people cancer if they experience lead poisoning. An example I can think of is that I had a vaccine when I was really young and had a seizure from it, which, while it was caused by the vaccine, I didn't have that immediate reaction. I think we should still give vaccines because you don't want to risk your kid getting sick or dying, don't you?

 

[R44]

Me. I have it. I'll post a more detailed reply later.

 

[Joy Division]

My son has autism..speak later as kebab being ordered! and iPad battery low!🙂<br /><br />-- 05 Feb 2015, 23:20 --<br /><br />My wee lad has autism and had a very early diagnosis at only 2.5 years..now 5 years old..

He displays many of the classic symptoms like routine..if it's broken he gets extremely upset.

He can't speak sentences but has learned some words from me, his mum and siblings , as well as his speech therapist...

He will begin school in August ..a mainstream school with a special needs unit, he could have gone to a bigger school mainly for autisitc kids but that school has many special needs kids who don't nehave so well and as he is t like that we did t want him seeing that behaviour if we could avoid it!..

As for vaccines..we are of the opinion that the 3 in 1 vaccine can cause autism and other conditions as it was after this our wee lad was very unwell and had changed..

That is our opinion bitin won't get into an argument over it..

We have been to several autism awareness courses and are always Fi ding out new things!

Quite fascinating subject actually as is dementia.

 

[Bryn]

I have Aspergers Syndrome, which falls into that spectrum. While I may have difficulties here and there, I don't let it affect my life completely though it can be hard.

 

[applesparse]

I have mild aspergers, was diagnosed when i was 8, I find it hard to make friends, but thats mostly because people are jerks(I assume) and they tend to not care about you unless your popular or well known, no offense to anyone, but thats how the popular world works, of course not all people are like that, but most are. because of my aspergers i have anxiety and depression(mostly due to bullying and people misunderstanding me), but i somewhat see them both as gifts i get to see the world in a different way then most people, and that somewhat helps influence my creativity 🙂 i also am a computer programmer, so that somewhat helps my thinking 😀

also, vaccines cannot cause autism, because autism is a generic disorder that you're born with, my dad doesn't have ASD however he has "characteristics of it" and somehow that was passed down to me, my bother also has it so. Autism symptoms tend to show around the same age you get vaccinations, however lets pretend vaccinations didn't exist, people would still "get" Autism, the only reason for the "rise" in Autism is that we have better ways of diagnosing it these days and the diagnosis category is much bigger and fits more people that were not originally included in the Autistic Spectrum, if we had the same diagnosis category back in my dads time he would properly been diagnosed with Mild Aspergers, there is no evidence that vaccines cause Autism, its just people assuming one thing caused the other. its like if you Got a cold, and ended up losing your arm at work, doesn't mean the cold did it Lol.

I am somewhat a "intellectual" as in i think deeply and know a lot about multiple subjects and I'm a spiritual person and a thinker 😀

sorry if i said anything that sounded offensive(sometimes people tend to misunderstand the points I'm trying to make)

Peace.