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Welcome to From the Spectrum Podcast. This is a podcast about autism. It is my goal to explain

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what is autism. I plan to use a mixture of scientific literature, personal experience,

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and opinion. With opinion, I will explain why. After the way I do and give examples, I will

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provide links to various references for each episode. For each episode, we will discuss

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various aspects of autism. For today's episode, we will time travel a bit through the history

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of autism. Our goal is to understand the rates of autism. The past 30 to 40 years or so, the rates

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are increasing. We will cover classifications, the definitions, the symptoms or traits, the

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connections and the separation of schizophrenia, the DSM, and the assessment history. Remember,

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Dr. Catherine Lord, a previous guest, and we will cover some regulations, some government

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regulations, including the vaccines. This is a hot spot for autism and a confusing spot. There

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are many strong opinions. We will cover a by-dole act. From 1980, we covered what I think and some

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others think is the cause of autism. Light. More specifically, artificial light. Remember the

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differences between the sunlight and the evolution of various artificial light. Light is energy.

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And living organisms on earth use sunlight for life, including humans. Remember the sun

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spectra versus artificial light spectra. Remember the luxe or luminous intensity. Remember how

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our body, our biology, uses various wavelengths of light and the shift and extension of the energy

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source created adaptation or neuroplasticity and that gives us autism. The extension just

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mentioned means we can extend the day with artificial light. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine

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Physiology was given to circadian scientist. Living organisms follow a strict light, dark,

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cycle since creation. We will expand somewhat from the previous episode. For today's episode,

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we will skip ahead from the 1880s and the power grid and start in 1911. Remember,

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Alzheimer's was around this time too. In 1910, remember we covered similarities of autism

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and Alzheimer's or various dementias and the neuroplasticity undertaking on the molecular

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and cellular level. In 1911, autism appears as a component, a state of schizophrenia,

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which remained for 40 to 50 years or so. Also, in this era, it was psychoanalyst. So,

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Sigmund Freud and his lineage. Freud today, his practice does not exist much. However,

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the field of psychology accelerated because of him or he is a contributing factor for it. In short,

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psychoanalysts believe a lot in immediate thoughts, dreams and sex. Quotas sex, not gender sex. Some

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notes, neuroscience and more broadly, biology was not well understood compared to now. Of course,

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the nervous system wasn't understood as we understand it with the trillions of connections,

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the billions of cells, the feedforward feedback communication and so forth. Around the same

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time in the early 1900s, this research really accelerated too. So, there was a lot happening.

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So, in 1911, the Bueller description, a scientist or researcher named maybe Eugen Bueller. Here are

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some highlights from 1911. Published though in 1950. These were his writings from 1911.

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Autism is a symptom of schizophrenia. Thought to be peaks from other states, mostly called

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twilight peaks or dream states. Autism could not be diagnosed because it occurs in those

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twilight or dream states. Remember, it's just a part of a condition. Autism was not its own thing.

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The book also mentions delusional states and parietic or partial paralysis. The autistic

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symptom begins in childhood. Okay, that makes sense. It blocks reality and unconcerned with reality.

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And child might play with a piece of wood and imagine it as a toy, such as a baby at one

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time and a house at another time. I am unsure why the authors said baby and toy, meaning as these

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are general examples or are these accurate from questioning and observation. Autism can comfort

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themselves in a crowded room as if alone. Everything that concerned others without these

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symptoms, that crowded room, it doesn't exist to the autistic. And it appears to be objects,

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not humans making this room crowded. Autistic satisfy themselves on themselves. Remember me

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saying the biology that gives us autism allows us to be comfortable within ourselves. The book

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thought autism was a lack of interest. That makes sense. Troubles with beginning ordered

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task or demands, including holding a pencil for a writing task. Autism prevents autistics from

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temptation. They are less sensitive to relery, which is humor or teasing banter. They are less

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sensitive to relery in society. They can be stuck from previous experiences, from memory. Remember

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we discussed this quite a bit, that neuroplasticity part from the learning side, making us more of

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who we are. This sounds accurate for 1911. This sounds accurate for autism or autistic, just

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being kind of a subcategory of a larger condition. It is impossible to discriminate based on this

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if autism could have been a separate diagnosis. Remember these are pulled from a book about

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schizophrenia. We've covered similarities, such as the excitation inhibition balance or imbalance,

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the shared genetic implications that are known today. Obviously these highlight shared symptoms,

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or we typically call it phenotype. There are a lot of symptoms or phenotypes similar. Remember

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from the first episode, cluster A personality types, the odd or eccentric, and the schizoid

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personality diagnosis. These are very similar. Schizoid personality even has better symptom

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details in the description, I think, than autism. But that doesn't cover everything. The schizoid

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doesn't cover the full complexity of autism. That means the symptoms are not as crude though.

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They're very specific symptoms. Regardless, the book highlights autistic can be comfortable within

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themselves, prefer that, can become more of it from neuroplasticity. Today it is easier to discriminate

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those differences with delusional states. That's schizophrenia, not autism. And this continued

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until around 1959. Back then, back in the 50s, kind of, and the 60s, these children were mostly

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institutionalized just because they were maybe retarded or different. So please consider that as

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well. Autism began to separate from those more severe schizophrenia symptoms. So this book in

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1911 predates Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger about one generation, 20 to 30 years, meaning the book

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highlights children in 1910, 1911 with these symptoms. So that's about 20 to 30 years before

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Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger's. This timeline fits for the previous episode with the power grid

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and the electricity in 1880s. However, we know autism now is very hereditable. That's one thing

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research and others kind of do agree on. In 1923, Jean Piaget published symbolic thought and infantile

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thought. This book by Piaget highlights visual imagery. This is significant in autism. Remember

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Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures. Over the next few decades, communication became a region of

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interest. Communication problems were more observable, more recognized, and associated with

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the autistic, which also fits me saying that criteria B kind of creates criteria A. The social

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communication and interaction problems includes the eye problems, the eye gaze, the eye contact,

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and the speech and language, the spoken words. In socialness, people use eye gaze to help the

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others to know what is important to show them pay attention. Eye gaze kind of helps others pay

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attention to each other and to the message. And the social communication problems come from this

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abstract thinking type, which is also involved with the eye gaze and speech and language to others.

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That dialogue, this is all created as a dysfunction because of that of those abstraction problems.

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Problems with abstracting and this internalizing, this autistics prefer to be within themselves.

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And this is shown, this is studied through the literature from the history of autism. These

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are the first symptoms to show up. Children not paying attention to the outside environment.

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Autism, in my opinion, is more criteria B, but criteria A is easier to observe, easier for

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people to recognize and make sense of it. Oh, that's some something's going on here.

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Let's explore the history of the DSM. If you receive a diagnosis in the US, it will come from

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the DSM. It is closely related to the ICD, which is what the majority of the world uses. Remember a

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previous guest on the From the Spectrum podcast, Dr. Catherine Lorde, she discusses some details on

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the DSM, specifically the levels, levels one through three, that were included in the latest

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version. More in a bit and more on Dr. Lorde when we cover assessments. In the first two DSMs, DSM

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one and two, the word autism or autistic is only mentioned one time each. In 1952, DSM one is released.

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And a diagnosis called Schizophrenic Reaction, Childhood Type. So a psychotic reaction is what

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it refers to. Autism is referred to as a psychotic reaction. In 1968, DSM two, a diagnosis called

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Schizophrenia Childhood Type. Remember, removed from the severe symptoms in 1959, DSM two describes a

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withdrawn behavior. They use autistic with the so-called social isolation or the social withdrawal.

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This is becoming more accurate. In 1980, DSM three and finally, infantile autism. Autism has its

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separate and distinct diagnosis and also added is a so-called pervasive development disorder.

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In 1987, DSM three revision includes Autistic Disorder. Pay attention to these dates because

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we're up in the 80s now and autism is becoming its separate thing. In 1994, DSM four and there's

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a Autistic Disorder with four subcategories. So remember these timelines, 1980, 1987 and 1994

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because these are going to be crucial when we discuss the rates of autism. And finally in 2013,

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DSM five. The gates are wide open now. Autism spectrum disorder and the four subcategories

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combined. Okay, now assessments. We discussed with Dr. Catherine Lord, the creator of two

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gold standards in autism assessment. In 1990s, late 80s to 2000 or so to be more generous.

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Late 80s to 2000. Remember this was before a publisher. She was creating the ADOS in her

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basement and received hate mail about not getting them out fast enough. The demand now at this

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time frame is large. This was when autism was fully recognized from the DSM editions. Before

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this, autism assessment lacked standardization. Dr. Lord also covered this. There was no tools

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for autism specifically or very limited tools. Tools lacked validity and reliability before

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this. Tools specific to autism were hard to come by. In the next few subsequent years,

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autism tools and instruments became available. The ADI, the ADOS, what called cars, combined

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with various social communication questionnaires, such as a SCQ, which is also Dr. Lord, and various

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restricted repetitive behaviors, such as RBSR. So more tools for autism and specific tools for

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the social communication part and the restricted repetitive behavior part. These are only 20

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to 30 years old. The original versions, of course, they got revised, but Dr. Lord mentioned they

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constantly needed revised. Something that slows or restricts that, the revisions, that is if the

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publisher is making money on it or not. If the current edition or revision is making money,

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then the publisher is going to stay put. Why invest money when money is coming in?

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The critical information between the DSM and assessment history is this. 20 to 30 years is

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going to be crucial momentarily. Okay, a hotspot for the cause of autism and something that

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correlates strongly with the diagnosis is vaccines. Vaccines also appears large in this

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time frame too. I don't think vaccines are causing it. Remember the episode, the previous episode,

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cause of autism and we reviewed light. However, vaccines, they are a concern and it needs reformed.

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That's my opinion and here is why. Here's what you need to know. In 1980, By Dole Act was passed.

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Evan By and Bob Dole. This act reads, Patent or trademark law amendments act is United States

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legislation permitting ownership by contractors of inventions arising from federal government

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funded research. You ought to think about centralized medicine. Think about universities,

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agencies such as CDC, National Institute of Health, etc. Pharmacology being able to profit

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from federal funding. This is wild. This throws pharma, including vaccines at everything. Now

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everything is just the profit mill. Medicine, pills, vaccines and what does our centralized

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paradigm do? We prescribe and we give vaccinations like no other country. This is our paradigm.

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The status quo you need to ask yourself, I want you to ask yourself is what we're doing working.

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Look at any health measurement. Look at any health condition is what we're doing with that health

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condition you choose. Is it working? Think about all of the commercials for pharmacology,

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medicines from big pharma. Think about how many of those you see. However, now think about with

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vaccines. They don't have to advertise them because they are required. One, there's no need to

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advertise and two, for sure sales. Ask a business how much advertisement would cost at the scales

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of pharmacology uses them and on the biggest networks. How much is spent on this advertising

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and marketing? Remember a previous episode with the revenue 2023. The business types with the

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biggest revenue for 2023. One was centralized money. Two was hospitals and then also on the top

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five were two from pharmacology. Pharmacology and health and beauty and then pharmacology

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wholesale. So that's the top five cleared profits. It's coming from these business types.

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So last thing on this act, this buy dough act or scam or act, I mean, research takes taxpayer money

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and turns it into personal profits. Then medical schools and society is suffocated with prescriptions.

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It's sick. Anyway, vaccines took off after this. The vaccines, the schedule changed drastically

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after buy dough act. Right around the same time, autism rates accelerate, but people will need to

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consider the DSM classifications and autism being a separate or unique diagnosis and the assessment

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is taking place. And every since autism rates have accelerated. Okay, the history of diagnosis

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also called rates of autism or prevalence. You've read it or heard of it. Things like one in 36,

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which is extremely outdated by now, by the way. Let's look at it through the decades

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and as we review the decades, remember crucial items like the classifications, the acceptance,

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the descriptions, the assessments. Remember the timelines associated with those items.

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From 1930s to 1980s, it was mostly stagnant. It exists, but not much change. Maybe one in tens of

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thousands, one in 10,000 or one in 12,000. A question could be, since it wasn't an official

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diagnosis until 1980, how was that diagnosis selected? Here's what the episode is all about

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right here. Last episode, we covered a cause, a biological cause with atomic explanations

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and the timeline fits. It fits perfectly, still today it fits. The changes fit, the light sources,

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the light exposure, the genetic implications from that and the other health conditions.

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Let's explore this. Autism classification and acceptance came to the masses in 1980.

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Medically accepted. Assessment standards came in 1990s, 1987 and 1994 and 2013. Autism began to

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combine. Each of those years, autism was more, had its unique classifications. There were multiple

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ones. Let's pause in 1980 to 1987 to 1994. Autism and the subcategories began to emerge.

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Now, began to see the rates of autism increase during those years. From 1980 to 1990, there was a

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significant increase. From 1990 to 2000, there was a sharp increase. There was a 45-degree increase

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on the XY graph. So, basically doubling. Now add standard assessments to the classifications.

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Remember Dr. Lord, her work and the podcast episode. The part that seems confusing is vaccine increases

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and today. Still today, many people are still looking at this as the cause. But autism existed

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before this large increase in the vaccine schedule. Autism likely and we heard from

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Dr. Lord when she began as just an undergraduate student and just out of undergraduate. She worked

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with many children that had autism but maybe not diagnosed as autism. What people want to know?

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What's confusing? The question is the why? Further, understanding the diagnosing rate.

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Was it undiagnosed back then or diagnosed as something else which seems likely? It seems like

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that is reasonable. A reasonable suggestion after 2013 and the subcategories were combined into

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autism spectrum. A reasonable suggestion is the evolution of the classifications and the assessments.

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More people going undiagnosed as well.

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Don't forget about the artificial light and the health implications to the cell biology.

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Development, proliferation, differentiation, cells dividing and the nervous system becoming a

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large and complex living organism. And what is being implicated with that?

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