"Walk Now For Autism"

[Andrew2382]

Hi Everyone,

Did you know that every 20 minutes another child is diagnosed with autism? This has occurred in my family.

My son Rian was diagnosed with Autism last year and we have been taking it a day at a time. He has his good days and bad, and he has trouble overcoming the obstacles that sometimes stand in his way. However, he is making fantastic progress!

I am walking in the fight against autism at Walk Now for Autism, joining tens of thousands of other people united by a single cause and dedicated to raising money to find a cure and build awareness for autism. The money raised at Walk Now for Autism supports Autism Speaks mission to finding the causes, effective treatments and a cure for autism through funding essential biomedical research. One in every 150 children is diagnosed with autism. Autism Speaks directs 75¢ out of every dollar raised to autism research, awareness and outreach.

I am well on my way to reaching my goal. Please help me reach my goal by making a donation. You can make a donation online using the link below or visit Home - :: Walk Now for Autism Speaks :: and search for my name. You can also use the donation form located on my page to mail a check; please make checks payable Autism Speaks and mail to:

Autism Speaks/Walk Now for Autism
5455 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 2250
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Thank you for taking an important step in the fight against autism.

Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
Autism Speaks 501 (C)(3) Tax Id #: 20-2329938

Matching gift program: Many companies provide their employees with matching gifts. Please consult your employer on its matching gift guidelines and attach matching gift forms accordingly.

Follow This Link to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support Autism Speaks, you can see a new picture of my son and what a cute kid he is.

2009 Walk Now for Autism Broward County - General Donation.

It really is for a great cause, many people don't know much about Autistic children and tend to treat them differently then others. My son loves to play and roughhouse like any other 2 and a half year old. The only difference is he has a speech delay and sensory issues.

If you are financially able I ask you to donate what you can so maybe we can find a cure.

Thanks to Gunny for letting me post this and everyone else who took the time to read it.

Sincerely,

Andrew Carrillo

 

[Gunny]

Anyone tries to derail this thread or turn it into politics will have their shit deleted by me. Anybody that wants to play, bring it. otherwise, kind words and/or donations are acceptable.

Anyone that doesn't have mercy for the indigent sucks.

I hope I'm clear.

Still Goes. -Intense

 

[DavidS]

Hi Everyone,

Did you know that every 20 minutes another child is diagnosed with autism? This has occurred in my family.

My son Rian was diagnosed with Autism last year and we have been taking it a day at a time. He has his good days and bad, and he has trouble overcoming the obstacles that sometimes stand in his way. However, he is making fantastic progress!

I am walking in the fight against autism at Walk Now for Autism, joining tens of thousands of other people united by a single cause and dedicated to raising money to find a cure and build awareness for autism. The money raised at Walk Now for Autism supports Autism Speaks mission to finding the causes, effective treatments and a cure for autism through funding essential biomedical research. One in every 150 children is diagnosed with autism. Autism Speaks directs 75¢ out of every dollar raised to autism research, awareness and outreach.

I am well on my way to reaching my goal. Please help me reach my goal by making a donation. You can make a donation online using the link below or visit Home - :: Walk Now for Autism Speaks :: and search for my name. You can also use the donation form located on my page to mail a check; please make checks payable Autism Speaks and mail to:

Autism Speaks/Walk Now for Autism
5455 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 2250
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Thank you for taking an important step in the fight against autism.

Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
Autism Speaks 501 (C)(3) Tax Id #: 20-2329938

Matching gift program: Many companies provide their employees with matching gifts. Please consult your employer on its matching gift guidelines and attach matching gift forms accordingly.

Follow This Link to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support Autism Speaks, you can see a new picture of my son and what a cute kid he is.

2009 Walk Now for Autism Broward County - General Donation.

It really is for a great cause, many people don't know much about Autistic children and tend to treat them differently then others. My son loves to play and roughhouse like any other 2 and a half year old. The only difference is he has a speech delay and sensory issues.

If you are financially able I ask you to donate what you can so maybe we can find a cure.

Thanks to Gunny for letting me post this and everyone else who took the time to read it.

Sincerely,

Andrew Carrillo

Life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Bravo, Andrew. My cousin is Autistic and it's a struggle to see someone battle through it... his mother is AMAZING and is an absolute super hero for being able to raise him and another son and being single and balancing a job... etc. etc.

I would love to one day finally see a cure to this plague.

 

[Andrew2382]

You're right David, its a huge struggle for both the parent and the child.

The divorce rate for parents with kids on the Autism Spectrum is near 90%. I was ignorant of Autism obviously before my son was born but now that I see him and others likes him, they really are beautiful children and are just as normal as the next child.

Some are more severe then others. We can only hope one day they find a cure. 1 out of 150 isn't just a problem, its an epidemic.

 

[xsited1]

I have a son who has Aspergers Syndrome.

Please feel free to PM me.

 

[asaratis]

Kudos to the thread starter. Nobody asks to be born. Whatever congenital condition they may have makes them no less valuable than the perfectly healthy. Whether it is a family member, a friend or a stranger, help is the order of the day.

I support and applaud any contribution by way of financial help or blood, sweat and tears toward making the lives of challenged children and families less burdensome.

 

[Andrew2382]

Autism Speaks, Press Updates, Autism Speaks Responds to New Pediatrics Autism Study Putting Prevalence at 1 in 91 American Children, Including 1 in 58 Boys

NEW YORK, N.Y. (October 5, 2009) – Autism Speaks, the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization, today responded to a new study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics' journal Pediatrics that found a parent-reported autism prevalence rate of one in every 91 American children, including one in 58 boys. The most recent ASD prevalence estimate reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2007 was approximately one in 150 (including one in 94 boys), making autism the most prevalent childhood developmental disorder. Autism Speaks said the new findings reinforced the fact that autism is an urgent and growing public health crisis that affects most individuals across their lifespan and demands a commensurate level of action from both the public and private sectors.

It's very awesome to see how much more aware we are becoming scientifically and as a society of Autism. 1 out of 58 boys is really an astonishing number if you really think about it.

20 years ago they would have incorrectly diagnosed my son with retardation...thats how far we have come in awareness anyway. Let's hope we can find the reason this happens and the cure!

 

[jimbetty123]

autism is a medical problem where a person or child cant remember the things properly or cant understand the things as a normal one understands,in this case both family and person suffers.family should be very co-operative in these kind of situation and have some patience.it has a solution no need to panic about it

 

[waltky]

Didn't know there was an autism problem in Vietnam...

Grassroots Push for Vietnam Policy on Autism
April 01, 2013 — Many countries around the world mark April 2 as World Autism Awareness Day, an event adopted by the United Nations in 2007 to bring global attention to autism spectrum disorder [ASD] and autism. Vietnam held its first symposium on autism last month, which many hope will lead to improved government policy on education and health guidelines for mental health disorders. It's part of the effort by parents of autistic children to push for improved care.

Despite the increasing number of special education schools in Vietnam, the country, like many in Southeast Asia, has no national policy on how to treat autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ASD describes a group of complex brain development disorders that affect tens of millions of people around the globe, and is characterized by difficulties in social interaction and communication.

Many of those afflicted do not have access to adequate treatment. According to Dr. Nguyen Thi Hoang Yen, vice director of the Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences, however, there has been a growing understanding of the condition among health professionals in Vietnam in the last few years. “I confess that many people with autism were in the hospital and they considered them like mad people or very severe mental disorder. In comparison with now, I think more people realize about the autism so they don’t see the autism like a pure mental disorder,” said Yen.

A boy relaxes with lights in a 'Snoezelen' room during yoga classes for children who typically have autism, brain injuries or developmental disabilities, in Lima, Peru, Jan. 27, 2012.

Parents step up

Yen said the change is partly because of improvements in the health care system, especially for children, and access to research done in other countries. But the driving force has been parents. In March, scientists from the United States, along with officials from the ministries of health, education and labor, took part in a symposium that many people hope will be the first step toward setting a national framework to help people with ASD. Yen says the symposium was largely initiated by the Hanoi Club for Parents of Children with Autism. The club arranges workshops with local and foreign specialists and maintains a support network for parents. “In the year 2002, we established the first parents club for the children with autism in Hanoi. At that time were only 40 families come together with some professionals in special education and now it’s more than 500 families,” he said.

One parent, who identified himself only as "Hung," said he and his wife first noticed there was something different about their son when he was one-and-a-half years old. “Normally when you talk to a boy or a girl normally they have eye contact, they listen and they react, like smiling, whatever. However, with my boy I realized a problem with this. Even when I said something he didn’t care and he act by himself,” said "Hung." They took him to the hospital for tests and were told three months later that their son has ASD. The doctors told him because their son was still very young all they could do is interact with him as best they could. When he was three or four they could make a better assessment of what he needed.

Varying treatments

See also:

Study: Autism Risk Not Increased by Early Vaccines
March 29, 2013 — There is no link between receiving a number of vaccines early in life and autism, researchers said on Friday.

In a study slated to appear in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers said there is no association between receiving "too many vaccines too soon" and autism, despite some fears among parents around the number of vaccines given both on a single day and over the first 2 years of life. As many as one in 50 U.S. school-age children have been diagnosed with autism, up 72 percent since 2007. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Abt Associates analyzed data from children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a statement from the journal.

Researchers examined each child's cumulative exposure to antigens, the substances in vaccines that cause the body's immune system to produce antibodies to fight disease, and the maximum number of antigens each child received in a single day of vaccination, the journal's statement said. The antigen totals were the same for children with and without ASD, researchers found. Autism runs a spectrum from a profound inability to communicate and mental retardation to milder symptoms seen in Asperger's Syndrome.

While scientists believe genetics account for 80 to 90 percent of the risk for developing autism, a growing number of studies are beginning to suggest that a father's age at the time of conception may play a role by increasing risks for genetic mistakes in the sperm that could be passed along to offspring. Worries about a link between vaccines and autism have persisted for years, despite a growing body of scientific evidence disproving such an association.

Source

 

[eots]

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[Skull Pilot]

The definition of autism has been expanded to a ridiculous degree no wonder there are so many "new" diagnoses.

 

[eots]

The definition of autism has been expanded to a ridiculous degree no wonder there are so many "new" diagnoses.

[B]Dr Allen Frances, the lead author of DSMIV, and the British Psychological Association, lead the chorus of opposition to disease mongering proposals in DSM5[/B]


Dr Frances wrote: ‘We are already in the midst of a false epidemic of ADD. Rates in kids that were 3-5% when DSM IV was published in 1994 have now jumped to 10%. In part this came from changes in DSM IV, but most of the inflation was caused by a marketing blitz to practitioners that accompanied new on-patent drugs amplified by new regulations that also allowed direct to consumer advertising to parents and teachers. In a sensible world, DSM 5 would now offer much tighter criteria for ADD and much clearer advice on the steps needed in its differential diagnosis……. The DSM 5 child and adolescent work group has perversely gone just the other way. It proposes to make an already far too easy diagnosis much looser. How puzzling and troubling.’ (Full blog by Dr Frances available at DSM 5 Will Further Inflate The ADD Bubble | Psychology Today )

Dr Allen Frances, the lead author of DSMIV, and the British Psychological Association, lead the chorus of opposition to disease mongering proposals in DSM5 | Speed Up & Sit Still

 

[editec]

I am convinced that something ENVIRONMENTAL is causing this dramatic increase in Autism.

Some chemical or combination of chemicals that we now expose ourselves, our pregnant mothers, and our children to will, I suspect, be found as the root cause of this condition.

Shoot folks ! ~ we live in a modern chemical soup (I'm informed we are all exposed to nearly 40,000 man-made chemicals) now and while some chemicals are tested?

Most are not, PLUS the interactions of all these chemicals is almost never looked it.

We've been FRACKING ourselves up for decades and I think there's a price to be paid for this foolishness./

Increasing rates of Autism is probably just one of those costs.

 

[whitehall]

Autism has become a broad (some say too broad) diagnosis which includes alleged learning disorders. Probably years ago when everyone was right handed, left handed kids would have been diagnosed with autism. Would you "walk for autism" if it hadn't been diagnosed in your family?

 

[Ringel05]

I am convinced that something ENVIRONMENTAL is causing this dramatic increase in Autism.

Some chemical or combination of chemicals that we now expose ourselves, our pregnant mothers, and our children to will, I suspect, be found as the root cause of this condition.

Shoot folks ! ~ we live in a modern chemical soup (I'm informed we are all exposed to nearly 40,000 man-made chemicals) now and while some chemicals are tested?

Most are not, PLUS the interactions of all these chemicals is almost never looked it.

We've been FRACKING ourselves up for decades and I think there's a price to be paid for this foolishness./

Increasing rates of Autism is probably just one of those costs.

Hell, editec the potential causes could be as numerous as the stars, might as well blame plastic outgassing, which is thousands of times more prevalent in our environment. Could just as well be GMOed foods or an increase in radiation from some exploding star. At this point all we have is speculation.

 

[whitehall]

Would you allow a life impacting diagnosis of "autism" for your kid just so you could get a couple of bucks from the government? Would you allow your kid to be diagnosed with "autism" which might follow him for the rest of his life based on the standards that union organized teachers have established? Would you allow the education system to dope your kid with psychotic drugs just to make it easy for teachers to deal with a zombie? I grew up with a couple of kids who may or may not have had cases of dislexia and failure to focus on subjects. Today the establishment might have found it easy to diagnose them with cases of autism. One of them managed to get through law school and the other kid was KIA in Vietnam.