Autism In the News ....again!

[mrsforgetful]

watched the national news tonight and they had an article about a Bristol Professor (or some other educational type person) and she is researching AUTISM....looking into diet/pregnancy/birth....and even MMR .

There was a short interview with a mum of 3 boys...twins age 5 and a 3 yr old.....she said something along the lines of that her sons look so normal that when they behave badly onlookers see her as a bad mother......how true!

It was i think for me a great insight for people like my family who are still finding it hard to accept that my son's have autism....the twins on the news tonight were behaving just as mine would if a TV crew were there....and the youngest was walking bare foot along his brio track....and when his name was called he showed no response....

Did anyone else see it/like it etc?

also mentioned they are studying children born in the 90's.....wonder if they'd like me and my brood...seeing as they said the incidence is 1 in 110 kids have autism....and its likely that i have 3 in my home!!!!!

They won't address the MMR issue though.
There are 14,000 subjects and we assume 1:140 with an ASD that means 100 ASD subjects. Latest data suggests about 7% of parents are sure that the MMR was a very significant trigger for regression. So, there would be 7 potential MMR subjects. They're not going to pick that up.

The only way they'll find out about MMR is to look directly and clincally at the children who have been damaged by it.

Hope they look properly at thimerosil though- the numbers affected may well be higher and if they don't decide in advance that there's nothing to be found they may get somewhere. I have a feeling that there are going to focus on pre-natal effects though- which obviously will have had an effect in some cases, but I am hoping they will give equal weight to studying post-nantal damage as well.

Mrs Forgetful, they already have the subjects, as they have randomly picked people and have already been studying the women since they were first pregnant.