not only that you have to take into account that Kanner was seeing
"autistic" "patients" for some years before he wrote up his paper and there
was of course Asperger in Austria sharing a common european medical cultural
heritage and applying Bleulers term to a similar gruop of individuals to
Kanners,. all of whom were alive and presumably autistic in the years prior
to 41
Any way if you want to put arbitrary dates you might as well ascribe it to
the post nuclear era or anything that suits your fancy, this letter makes no
sence whatever it is not so much joined up thinking as sticking together a
load of non sequiturs and calling it a conclusion, but that is the kind of
ignorance we face.
Larry
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> Subject: Re: USA: Proposed Law Offers Hope To End The New Plague Of
> Autism
>
>
> Re: the article Col linked to.... this piece contains so many errors
> of fact that I don't know where to start (not to mention using
> loaded terms like "plague" etc.) Typical of the incredibly poorly
> researched "journalism" seen in far too many papers, I'm sorry to
> say.
> Just to hit the major points, autism didn't suddenly appear in 1941
> (see Uta Frith's book on Hugh Blair, see my article in the journal
> Autism earlier this year, see the case notes of any doctor treating
> neurological conditions in children in the 19th and early 20th
> century); there are many, many documented cases of autism
> from the UK dating from the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s, not "only one
> probable case"(!); autism is seen in US-like rates in the UK,
> Scandinavian countries, the Phillipines, Japan, and many, many
> other countries; etc.
> I don't doubt that there are more children with autism currently, or
> that mercury exposure may contribute to this fact--putting a
> known neurotoxin in vaccines is simply inexplicable and needs to
> stop. But there are so many complex reasons involved in the far
> higher rate of diagnosis, and not just one causative or
> contributory factor. Looking only at mercury/thimersol is as foolish
> at looking only at genetics.
> -- Mitzi Waltz
>
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