4 Myths of Autism.....
Myth #1: Autism is genetic.
There is no evidence to suggest that autism is genetic. No autism gene has ever been found and the search will be endless - how can you have a gene for a mythical condition? Autism is mercury poisoning. What is true is that certain children may have an impaired ability genetically to detoxify heavy metals from their systems. These children are more likely to be affected by mercury exposure. However, all children, and adults, if given too much mercury will manifest symptoms of mercury toxicity, which we call "autistic" symptoms. All children born from 1991 forward who received all recommended vaccines were injected with levels of mercury that dramatically exceeded safety levels set by the Environmental Protection Agency for adults. Mercury has become ubiquitous in our environment: in fish and other foods, water, and air. Exceedingly high doses of mercury exposure can result in death - it is that neuro-toxic and damaging to the human body. Two drops of dimethylmercury spilled onto the gloved hand of a Dartmouth chemistry professor, a leader in a study investigating mercury's causal role in cancer, resulting in the progressive loss of her balance, speech, vision, and hearing, and ultimately lead to her coma and death within a year of the exposure.
It is impossible to have a "genetic epidemic." Since 1991, there is a very real and dramatic rise in the incidence of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. In the 1970s, the incidence of autism was 1 in 10,000 children. In 1986, the rate was 1 in 2,500. Today the rate is 1 in 150. It has been estimated that one in six children have some type of learning disability. Epidemics can happen in 10 years, genetic changes to populations require many generations.
Myth #2: Autism is lifelong.
There is a growing body of evidence that children properly treated for mercury poisoning fully recover normal functioning and are indiscernible from their neurotypical peers. Any toxicologist will tell you that mercury poisoning represents a temporary, treatable state. Thorough removal of mercury will resolve most or all of the symptoms. Autism is only life long if mercury poisoning is never treated.
Myth #3: Autistic children are not affectionate and do not like to be held or touched.
This is an unfortunate myth. Many autistic children are extremely affectionate and love to be held and hugged. Mercury kills neurons in the brain and damages the central nervous system resulting in disturbances in all of the senses - vision, hearing, oral, smell, proprieceptive (touch), and vestibular (motion). Some children develop ultra sensitivities in these systems (e.g., difficulties tolerating loud noise, bright lights, car rides, or certain kinds of clothing on their skin); others develop extreme undersensitivies (e.g., numbness, abnormally high pain tolerances, lack of fear or physical caution). Children who appear to not like being held or touched likely do not because it feels painful to them. Touch is literally either too painful or overwhelming to the senses to tolerate. Many autistic children are extremely affectionate and love to be held and hugged. Some may even crave or seek the pressure from that touch to penetrate their dulled senses. Underneath the distortions of mercury toxicity, all of these children wish to be held and loved.
Myth #4: Autistic children are in their own world and are not interested in other people.
Mercury poisoning overloads the senses and can make sights, sounds, touch, and smells intolerable. This sensory overload causes some autistic children to withdraw inward as a means of survival - it is their body's way of coping with the massive sensory overload. Parents often remark, as the mercury is removed from their children's bodies, that they experience their child "in our world" for the first time: focusing on people's faces, attending to sounds, and having a light or aliveness in their eyes again. The removal of mercury reduces the sensory distortion and overload, making the world a safer, more readily understood, and more tolerable place again. By using our own frame of reference, we mistake an autistic child's retreat inward as an "aloofness" or "indifference" to those around them. Nothing could be further from the truth.
There is no evidence to suggest that autism is genetic. No autism gene has ever been found and the search will be endless - how can you have a gene for a mythical condition? Autism is mercury poisoning. What is true is that certain children may have an impaired ability genetically to detoxify heavy metals from their systems. These children are more likely to be affected by mercury exposure. However, all children, and adults, if given too much mercury will manifest symptoms of mercury toxicity, which we call "autistic" symptoms. All children born from 1991 forward who received all recommended vaccines were injected with levels of mercury that dramatically exceeded safety levels set by the Environmental Protection Agency for adults. Mercury has become ubiquitous in our environment: in fish and other foods, water, and air. Exceedingly high doses of mercury exposure can result in death - it is that neuro-toxic and damaging to the human body. Two drops of dimethylmercury spilled onto the gloved hand of a Dartmouth chemistry professor, a leader in a study investigating mercury's causal role in cancer, resulting in the progressive loss of her balance, speech, vision, and hearing, and ultimately lead to her coma and death within a year of the exposure.
It is impossible to have a "genetic epidemic." Since 1991, there is a very real and dramatic rise in the incidence of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. In the 1970s, the incidence of autism was 1 in 10,000 children. In 1986, the rate was 1 in 2,500. Today the rate is 1 in 150. It has been estimated that one in six children have some type of learning disability. Epidemics can happen in 10 years, genetic changes to populations require many generations.
Myth #2: Autism is lifelong.
There is a growing body of evidence that children properly treated for mercury poisoning fully recover normal functioning and are indiscernible from their neurotypical peers. Any toxicologist will tell you that mercury poisoning represents a temporary, treatable state. Thorough removal of mercury will resolve most or all of the symptoms. Autism is only life long if mercury poisoning is never treated.
Myth #3: Autistic children are not affectionate and do not like to be held or touched.
This is an unfortunate myth. Many autistic children are extremely affectionate and love to be held and hugged. Mercury kills neurons in the brain and damages the central nervous system resulting in disturbances in all of the senses - vision, hearing, oral, smell, proprieceptive (touch), and vestibular (motion). Some children develop ultra sensitivities in these systems (e.g., difficulties tolerating loud noise, bright lights, car rides, or certain kinds of clothing on their skin); others develop extreme undersensitivies (e.g., numbness, abnormally high pain tolerances, lack of fear or physical caution). Children who appear to not like being held or touched likely do not because it feels painful to them. Touch is literally either too painful or overwhelming to the senses to tolerate. Many autistic children are extremely affectionate and love to be held and hugged. Some may even crave or seek the pressure from that touch to penetrate their dulled senses. Underneath the distortions of mercury toxicity, all of these children wish to be held and loved.
Myth #4: Autistic children are in their own world and are not interested in other people.
Mercury poisoning overloads the senses and can make sights, sounds, touch, and smells intolerable. This sensory overload causes some autistic children to withdraw inward as a means of survival - it is their body's way of coping with the massive sensory overload. Parents often remark, as the mercury is removed from their children's bodies, that they experience their child "in our world" for the first time: focusing on people's faces, attending to sounds, and having a light or aliveness in their eyes again. The removal of mercury reduces the sensory distortion and overload, making the world a safer, more readily understood, and more tolerable place again. By using our own frame of reference, we mistake an autistic child's retreat inward as an "aloofness" or "indifference" to those around them. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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