Welcome to From the Spectrum Podcast. This is a podcast about autism. It is my goal to explain
what is autism. I plan to use a mixture of scientific literature, personal experience,
and opinion. With opinion, I will explain why. After the way I do and give examples, I will
provide links to various references for each episode. For each episode, we will discuss
various aspects of autism. For today's episode, we will time travel a bit through the history
of autism. Our goal is to understand the rates of autism. The past 30 to 40 years or so, the rates
are increasing. We will cover classifications, the definitions, the symptoms or traits, the
connections and the separation of schizophrenia, the DSM, and the assessment history. Remember,
Dr. Catherine Lord, a previous guest, and we will cover some regulations, some government
regulations, including the vaccines. This is a hot spot for autism and a confusing spot. There
are many strong opinions. We will cover a by-dole act. From 1980, we covered what I think and some
others think is the cause of autism. Light. More specifically, artificial light. Remember the
differences between the sunlight and the evolution of various artificial light. Light is energy.
And living organisms on earth use sunlight for life, including humans. Remember the sun
spectra versus artificial light spectra. Remember the luxe or luminous intensity. Remember how
our body, our biology, uses various wavelengths of light and the shift and extension of the energy
source created adaptation or neuroplasticity and that gives us autism. The extension just
mentioned means we can extend the day with artificial light. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Physiology was given to circadian scientist. Living organisms follow a strict light, dark,
cycle since creation. We will expand somewhat from the previous episode. For today's episode,
we will skip ahead from the 1880s and the power grid and start in 1911. Remember,
Alzheimer's was around this time too. In 1910, remember we covered similarities of autism
and Alzheimer's or various dementias and the neuroplasticity undertaking on the molecular
and cellular level. In 1911, autism appears as a component, a state of schizophrenia,
which remained for 40 to 50 years or so. Also, in this era, it was psychoanalyst. So,
Sigmund Freud and his lineage. Freud today, his practice does not exist much. However,
the field of psychology accelerated because of him or he is a contributing factor for it. In short,
psychoanalysts believe a lot in immediate thoughts, dreams and sex. Quotas sex, not gender sex. Some
notes, neuroscience and more broadly, biology was not well understood compared to now. Of course,
the nervous system wasn't understood as we understand it with the trillions of connections,
the billions of cells, the feedforward feedback communication and so forth. Around the same
time in the early 1900s, this research really accelerated too. So, there was a lot happening.
So, in 1911, the Bueller description, a scientist or researcher named maybe Eugen Bueller. Here are
some highlights from 1911. Published though in 1950. These were his writings from 1911.
Autism is a symptom of schizophrenia. Thought to be peaks from other states, mostly called
twilight peaks or dream states. Autism could not be diagnosed because it occurs in those
twilight or dream states. Remember, it's just a part of a condition. Autism was not its own thing.
The book also mentions delusional states and parietic or partial paralysis. The autistic
symptom begins in childhood. Okay, that makes sense. It blocks reality and unconcerned with reality.
And child might play with a piece of wood and imagine it as a toy, such as a baby at one
time and a house at another time. I am unsure why the authors said baby and toy, meaning as these
are general examples or are these accurate from questioning and observation. Autism can comfort
themselves in a crowded room as if alone. Everything that concerned others without these
symptoms, that crowded room, it doesn't exist to the autistic. And it appears to be objects,
not humans making this room crowded. Autistic satisfy themselves on themselves. Remember me
saying the biology that gives us autism allows us to be comfortable within ourselves. The book
thought autism was a lack of interest. That makes sense. Troubles with beginning ordered
task or demands, including holding a pencil for a writing task. Autism prevents autistics from
temptation. They are less sensitive to relery, which is humor or teasing banter. They are less
sensitive to relery in society. They can be stuck from previous experiences, from memory. Remember
we discussed this quite a bit, that neuroplasticity part from the learning side, making us more of
who we are. This sounds accurate for 1911. This sounds accurate for autism or autistic, just
being kind of a subcategory of a larger condition. It is impossible to discriminate based on this
if autism could have been a separate diagnosis. Remember these are pulled from a book about
schizophrenia. We've covered similarities, such as the excitation inhibition balance or imbalance,
the shared genetic implications that are known today. Obviously these highlight shared symptoms,
or we typically call it phenotype. There are a lot of symptoms or phenotypes similar. Remember
from the first episode, cluster A personality types, the odd or eccentric, and the schizoid
personality diagnosis. These are very similar. Schizoid personality even has better symptom
details in the description, I think, than autism. But that doesn't cover everything. The schizoid
doesn't cover the full complexity of autism. That means the symptoms are not as crude though.
They're very specific symptoms. Regardless, the book highlights autistic can be comfortable within
themselves, prefer that, can become more of it from neuroplasticity. Today it is easier to discriminate
those differences with delusional states. That's schizophrenia, not autism. And this continued
until around 1959. Back then, back in the 50s, kind of, and the 60s, these children were mostly
institutionalized just because they were maybe retarded or different. So please consider that as
well. Autism began to separate from those more severe schizophrenia symptoms. So this book in
1911 predates Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger about one generation, 20 to 30 years, meaning the book
highlights children in 1910, 1911 with these symptoms. So that's about 20 to 30 years before
Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger's. This timeline fits for the previous episode with the power grid
and the electricity in 1880s. However, we know autism now is very hereditable. That's one thing
research and others kind of do agree on. In 1923, Jean Piaget published symbolic thought and infantile
thought. This book by Piaget highlights visual imagery. This is significant in autism. Remember
Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures. Over the next few decades, communication became a region of
interest. Communication problems were more observable, more recognized, and associated with
the autistic, which also fits me saying that criteria B kind of creates criteria A. The social
communication and interaction problems includes the eye problems, the eye gaze, the eye contact,
and the speech and language, the spoken words. In socialness, people use eye gaze to help the
others to know what is important to show them pay attention. Eye gaze kind of helps others pay
attention to each other and to the message. And the social communication problems come from this
abstract thinking type, which is also involved with the eye gaze and speech and language to others.
That dialogue, this is all created as a dysfunction because of that of those abstraction problems.
Problems with abstracting and this internalizing, this autistics prefer to be within themselves.
And this is shown, this is studied through the literature from the history of autism. These
are the first symptoms to show up. Children not paying attention to the outside environment.
Autism, in my opinion, is more criteria B, but criteria A is easier to observe, easier for
people to recognize and make sense of it. Oh, that's some something's going on here.
Let's explore the history of the DSM. If you receive a diagnosis in the US, it will come from
the DSM. It is closely related to the ICD, which is what the majority of the world uses. Remember a
previous guest on the From the Spectrum podcast, Dr. Catherine Lorde, she discusses some details on
the DSM, specifically the levels, levels one through three, that were included in the latest
version. More in a bit and more on Dr. Lorde when we cover assessments. In the first two DSMs, DSM
one and two, the word autism or autistic is only mentioned one time each. In 1952, DSM one is released.
And a diagnosis called Schizophrenic Reaction, Childhood Type. So a psychotic reaction is what
it refers to. Autism is referred to as a psychotic reaction. In 1968, DSM two, a diagnosis called
Schizophrenia Childhood Type. Remember, removed from the severe symptoms in 1959, DSM two describes a
withdrawn behavior. They use autistic with the so-called social isolation or the social withdrawal.
This is becoming more accurate. In 1980, DSM three and finally, infantile autism. Autism has its
separate and distinct diagnosis and also added is a so-called pervasive development disorder.
In 1987, DSM three revision includes Autistic Disorder. Pay attention to these dates because
we're up in the 80s now and autism is becoming its separate thing. In 1994, DSM four and there's
a Autistic Disorder with four subcategories. So remember these timelines, 1980, 1987 and 1994
because these are going to be crucial when we discuss the rates of autism. And finally in 2013,
DSM five. The gates are wide open now. Autism spectrum disorder and the four subcategories
combined. Okay, now assessments. We discussed with Dr. Catherine Lord, the creator of two
gold standards in autism assessment. In 1990s, late 80s to 2000 or so to be more generous.
Late 80s to 2000. Remember this was before a publisher. She was creating the ADOS in her
basement and received hate mail about not getting them out fast enough. The demand now at this
time frame is large. This was when autism was fully recognized from the DSM editions. Before
this, autism assessment lacked standardization. Dr. Lord also covered this. There was no tools
for autism specifically or very limited tools. Tools lacked validity and reliability before
this. Tools specific to autism were hard to come by. In the next few subsequent years,
autism tools and instruments became available. The ADI, the ADOS, what called cars, combined
with various social communication questionnaires, such as a SCQ, which is also Dr. Lord, and various
restricted repetitive behaviors, such as RBSR. So more tools for autism and specific tools for
the social communication part and the restricted repetitive behavior part. These are only 20
to 30 years old. The original versions, of course, they got revised, but Dr. Lord mentioned they
constantly needed revised. Something that slows or restricts that, the revisions, that is if the
publisher is making money on it or not. If the current edition or revision is making money,
then the publisher is going to stay put. Why invest money when money is coming in?
The critical information between the DSM and assessment history is this. 20 to 30 years is
going to be crucial momentarily. Okay, a hotspot for the cause of autism and something that
correlates strongly with the diagnosis is vaccines. Vaccines also appears large in this
time frame too. I don't think vaccines are causing it. Remember the episode, the previous episode,
cause of autism and we reviewed light. However, vaccines, they are a concern and it needs reformed.
That's my opinion and here is why. Here's what you need to know. In 1980, By Dole Act was passed.
Evan By and Bob Dole. This act reads, Patent or trademark law amendments act is United States
legislation permitting ownership by contractors of inventions arising from federal government
funded research. You ought to think about centralized medicine. Think about universities,
agencies such as CDC, National Institute of Health, etc. Pharmacology being able to profit
from federal funding. This is wild. This throws pharma, including vaccines at everything. Now
everything is just the profit mill. Medicine, pills, vaccines and what does our centralized
paradigm do? We prescribe and we give vaccinations like no other country. This is our paradigm.
The status quo you need to ask yourself, I want you to ask yourself is what we're doing working.
Look at any health measurement. Look at any health condition is what we're doing with that health
condition you choose. Is it working? Think about all of the commercials for pharmacology,
medicines from big pharma. Think about how many of those you see. However, now think about with
vaccines. They don't have to advertise them because they are required. One, there's no need to
advertise and two, for sure sales. Ask a business how much advertisement would cost at the scales
of pharmacology uses them and on the biggest networks. How much is spent on this advertising
and marketing? Remember a previous episode with the revenue 2023. The business types with the
biggest revenue for 2023. One was centralized money. Two was hospitals and then also on the top
five were two from pharmacology. Pharmacology and health and beauty and then pharmacology
wholesale. So that's the top five cleared profits. It's coming from these business types.
So last thing on this act, this buy dough act or scam or act, I mean, research takes taxpayer money
and turns it into personal profits. Then medical schools and society is suffocated with prescriptions.
It's sick. Anyway, vaccines took off after this. The vaccines, the schedule changed drastically
after buy dough act. Right around the same time, autism rates accelerate, but people will need to
consider the DSM classifications and autism being a separate or unique diagnosis and the assessment
is taking place. And every since autism rates have accelerated. Okay, the history of diagnosis
also called rates of autism or prevalence. You've read it or heard of it. Things like one in 36,
which is extremely outdated by now, by the way. Let's look at it through the decades
and as we review the decades, remember crucial items like the classifications, the acceptance,
the descriptions, the assessments. Remember the timelines associated with those items.
From 1930s to 1980s, it was mostly stagnant. It exists, but not much change. Maybe one in tens of
thousands, one in 10,000 or one in 12,000. A question could be, since it wasn't an official
diagnosis until 1980, how was that diagnosis selected? Here's what the episode is all about
right here. Last episode, we covered a cause, a biological cause with atomic explanations
and the timeline fits. It fits perfectly, still today it fits. The changes fit, the light sources,
the light exposure, the genetic implications from that and the other health conditions.
Let's explore this. Autism classification and acceptance came to the masses in 1980.
Medically accepted. Assessment standards came in 1990s, 1987 and 1994 and 2013. Autism began to
combine. Each of those years, autism was more, had its unique classifications. There were multiple
ones. Let's pause in 1980 to 1987 to 1994. Autism and the subcategories began to emerge.
Now, began to see the rates of autism increase during those years. From 1980 to 1990, there was a
significant increase. From 1990 to 2000, there was a sharp increase. There was a 45-degree increase
on the XY graph. So, basically doubling. Now add standard assessments to the classifications.
Remember Dr. Lord, her work and the podcast episode. The part that seems confusing is vaccine increases
and today. Still today, many people are still looking at this as the cause. But autism existed
before this large increase in the vaccine schedule. Autism likely and we heard from
Dr. Lord when she began as just an undergraduate student and just out of undergraduate. She worked
with many children that had autism but maybe not diagnosed as autism. What people want to know?
What's confusing? The question is the why? Further, understanding the diagnosing rate.
Was it undiagnosed back then or diagnosed as something else which seems likely? It seems like
that is reasonable. A reasonable suggestion after 2013 and the subcategories were combined into
autism spectrum. A reasonable suggestion is the evolution of the classifications and the assessments.
More people going undiagnosed as well.
Don't forget about the artificial light and the health implications to the cell biology.
Development, proliferation, differentiation, cells dividing and the nervous system becoming a
large and complex living organism. And what is being implicated with that?
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