What about this?

My Grandmother for Christmas bought me the book "Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic" by Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill.
So far I have made it through 33 pages of it. It's an awesome read so far. For anyone interested in the developement of medicine throughout the ages. If it has "an agenda" I am not seeing anything more than trying to inform people of what has been done to our ancestors and our planet. So I do recommend it for everyone who has any interest in the world at large.

That being said, today's blog is based around a question that while reading this book formed in my mind.

If the numbers of autism have increased so much in the past twenty years, maybe it's something that was done to my generation. Poor generation X'ers. Think about it, we are now becoming parents or have been in the past ten years. What was given to us, (and yes this does include mercury and thimerosal in our shots) and what about the other things we have put in our bodies, or the jobs we have done. I know I worked with fuels for almost six years, JP-8 to be specific. (I'll let you look it up, nasty stuff), I have had the anthrax shot, and whatever else they gave us in the military, (I would have to look at my shot records), I was on the depo shot. So think about it. Could anyone of these things, let alone together have set me up for an autistic child?

Maybe, I think it's a good thing to look at though. I guess the saying is true, what we put into our bodies now, can really hurt us in the future.

Another point I am going to make is that besides Autism, look at all the allergies out there in kids. When I was a kid we never had anyone with killer peanut or perfume allergies. I don't think I ever even know someone with it. Now, Kenz' school is a peanut/perfume free zone. Also, celiac or chrohn's disease can be included in this. 10 years ago it was almost unheard of; but now.....

Something is going on. Research is definitely needed in this department.

Yes I know that they are "supposedly" finding mutated genes for autism in the DNA strand, but nevertheless, where are those genes coming from? Something in my generations.

So basically I believe that there needs to be a study done on all of the parents of Autistic children to see if there is a common denominator.

We really need to have someone unbiased set up a census bureau for families on the spectrum. If we are ever going to find the answer to why, (which in the long run will find the answer to stop it, and help those who have it now), we need to all work together.