Every since our 13 year old was diagnosed with Autism with Developmental Delays, my husband and I said, the problem is in the air or in our food/water supply. I am a RN, my husband has a Master's Degree as a Rehabilitation Counselor. We both kept a clean fit life. We both are Christians,so neither one of us smoked or dranked any form of alcholic beverages nor did drugs. So we were shocked when we started noticing symptoms of an autistic baby.
We knew something wasn't quite right with our son. But we played down our suspicions, and focused on being great parents. As our son was growing we noticed he was not following the Developmental Chart for his age. Our son never could figure out how to crawl. He never cried when he was wet or hungry. He had to sleep with us from the time he was born till age 10.
As a toddler he always walked on his toes, fall backwards and bash his sweet little head in. When he was 3 years old doctors finally agreed with us that he was autistic.
Wow! we knew the news of autism was going to come, but it did not make it easy to accept. Why? how could this happen to us? We did everything possible to be healthy and do right so that we would have the perfect little boy! To add salt to our wounded emotions and ego. My sister who was an alcoholic/drug addict had her baby 1 month before me. Her son was perfect! He has had one issue with his heart which resolved it self. How could this happen? She did everything wrong and has a wonderful healthy son. We did everything right and our son who is healthy otherwise, has autism with developemental delays.
My husband and I have always said autism may be the results of the parents having altered genes. My brother he has 2 kids with Fragil X. My sister did not grow up in the same household as my brother and I.So, what was in our Denver, CO, middle income neighborhood that was different from my sister's Memphis Tenn. middle income environment?
CNN may have be able to support my husband's and my suspicions. CNN did a show called "Toxic Chemicals Finding their way into the Womb" Toxic America. In this show CNN reported that doctors/scientist found that babies were exposed to 200 potentially hazardous chemicals while in the womb.
These chemicals are: Bisphenol A, Perfluorochemicals,PBDEs,PCBs,Dioxinx, and Methylmercury. CNN reports that "232 chemicals were found in the cord blood of 10 babies last year."
This is alarming people! We need to wake up smell the wilthering roses and take action here! We need companies and the govenrment to investigate what is going on! Go to http://cnn.com/2010/health for more on this article and the show.
Hi! I found you on PowerWomenMag...I'm ADHD, Dyslexic and Dyscalcuos ( I'm sure I spelled that wrong but it means I switch numbers). My son has it too so mine was in the genes. My Dad never spoke about it but I think he was affected too. The good news is that all of us are doing great! I had it the worse and wasn't diagnosed until I was 28 so you can imagine the childhood I had ugggg. I went to a special school at that age. Long story but yeah it's a bit tougher for me to do things but I get stuff done.
ReplyDeleteI've heard that immunizations could be one cause these problems. Not much you can do now but there's so much out there for kids. I went to a regular college as part of the handicapped program went to class with everyone else and was the top student in my classes. It just takes patience and work.
Sounds like you're a good mom so he should be able to have a good life.
Thanks for sharing this! It is time for our society to clean up our planet. We need to get rid of pollutants that are used in our food, homes and other everyday products. Convenience is not worth the price of poor health, cancer and all illnesses that are caused by dangerous chemicals.
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