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carolyn kostopoulos's avatar

i hope RFKjr will tap you to design trials of these things. i'm going to be honest and tell you my bias- i am CERTAIN that the childhood vaccine schedule is responsible for virtually all of the autism epidemic and a goodly share of the chronic disease epidemic. i'm just a humble theatrical costume maker with no background in science, except in college when i learned that bad mothers cause autism, but my observations and my gut tell me that this is so and that we have hobbled generations of children to protect the profits of drug companies and to prop up the medical myths that keep the game going.

but since i won't be designing the trials, my bias won't be a problem

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Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

I think it’s toxic burden for some susceptible children: toxins in our air, food, water, body care products, and vaccines. Once we dig into that, I think it will be very revealing.

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TerriM's avatar

Wow. Someone told you "bad mothers cause autism"???? That's pretty crappy.

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carolyn kostopoulos's avatar

it was in the text books. they were called Schizophrenogenic mothers (refrigerator mothers) and it was believed that they had rejected the child at birth, even unconsciously. Bruno Bettelheim was the "expert" and his "settled science" blamed the mother. institutions housed these children to keep them away from their terrible mothers, books were written, therapists were trained- a whole autism infrastructure based on a completely psychological theory which disregarded all the physical symptoms beyond the lack of eye contact and the not talking.

this was the early 70's and i was a psych major.

eventually the theory fell into disrepute and now, all these years later, we just have "no idea" what causes autism (heavy sarcasm)!

several things strike me as odd about that time:

1) when a mother protested that she loved and wanted her child, the "expert", usually male, would tell her that she didn't know her own mind. there were all those "power hungry psychologist" movies, the Snake Pit (1948) and Miracle on 34th Street (1947) come to mind.

2) i raised my hand in class and said "i don't suppose there are ever any Schizophrenogenic fathers?" imagine the guilt these women felt and imagine the easy out this provided to husbands needing an excuse to get out of an untenable situation. there is a very moving documentary film called Refrigerator Mothers that you can find on line.

3) it seems to me that autism is a toxic load condition. something, probably the adjuvants in vaccines, that in certain children who don't detox well, causes brain inflammation and permanent damage. and yet in the 70's it was treated like a purely psychological issue. no amount of "psych therapy" or isolation from the "guilty" parent is going to help.

4) a contemporary flip is the trans issue which in most cases is purely psychological but is treated as if it was an actual physical condition where the body must be hormonally and surgically altered to match the delusional belief.

https://blogs.uoregon.edu/autismhistoryproject/people/312-2/

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