regresive autism?

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I don't get regressive autism. I thought we had a different brain phisiology, but then how is it a person develops normally for 3 years and then suddenly starts being autistic??

Wouldn't we like to know? It's such a tragedy: regressive autism!

I don't understand your comment.
Are you being sarcastic and saying regressive autism is not a tragedy, or you are saying I think regressive autism is a tragedy, or you are criticizing me because you think I think regressive autism is a tragedy, or you really mean it is a tragedy or what else?

"Regression" in autistic children is actually far rarer and far less dramatic than it seems. The vast majority of autistic children never lose skills at all; they just fall behind their peers, either gradually, or seemingly suddenly when developmental demands increase. Those who do regress tend to have been unusual from the beginning--developmentally behind, with autistic traits, until finally they cannot hold on to all of those skills at once and start to lose them. This isn't an unusual response to stress--children who are not autistic, but who are hospitalized or lose a parent, etc., often lose skills and behave as though they were much younger.

It's not that autistic children are normal until they lose skills... it's that the parents can convince themselves that their autistic children are okay, until finally the world expects so much more of the child than the child can do, and at that point the parents realize their child needs help.

The stereotypical "he was normal until he lost all of his skills" type of autism is actually very rare, fewer than one in two hundred cases of autism. It is called "Childhood Disintegrative Disorder", and it is often found together with other brain disorders such as epilepsy and generalized intellectual disability.

It's a tragedy because people lose abilities they once had. It's a victory when they regain the skills.

I'm not a sarcastic person! I don't make light of things related to autism. Just because something's a tragedy doesn't mean it can't be resolved, and made into a victory.

I should try to find studies which address regressive autism. I've seen so many case studies of it. It seemed, in the 1950's, that it was the "only" form of autism.

When we are born, we are still "unfinished" so to speak, even to the point where infants' brains are very delicate and much more prone to injury than an adults (ie, shaken baby syndrome). For whatever reason that science hasn't been totally able to lock down on (there may be any number of contributing factors that can cause autism in a myriad number of combinations), symptoms of autism may not be evident until one's brain has reached a certain stage of development and begins to build upon a neurological structure that is not in tune with the development of a neurotypical brain in the same stage.

Parents who have said they," lost [their] child to autism" have been witnesses to this. Our brains are incredibly adaptable however, as the science of neuroplasticity has revealed, and has also been demonstrated in people such as Temple Grandin, a woman born with severe autism that, through intense cognitive and behavorial therapy as a child, was not "cured" of autism but was able to, for the most part, able to overcome some of its most socially debilitating mechanisms. Maybe this is also why some people on the spectrum see their symptoms lessen with age. We can change the way our brains function, to a certain degree, by the the way we think and act.

I'd also like to mention that early detection and immediate intervention is key to minimizing autism's developmental impact.

Here is a definition of autism from the National Institute of Health:

Autism is a physical condition linked to abnormal biology and chemistry in the brain. The exact causes of these abnormalities remain unknown, but this is a very active area of research. There are probably a combination of factors that lead to autism.

Genetic factors seem to be important. For example, identical twins are much more likely than fraternal twins or siblings to both have autism. Similarly, language abnormalities are more common in relatives of autistic children. Chromosomal abnormalities and other nervous system (neurological) problems are also more common in families with autism.

A number of other possible causes have been suspected, but not proven. They involve:

Diet
Digestive tract changes
Mercury poisoning
The body's inability to properly use vitamins and minerals
Vaccine sensitivity

AUTISM AND VACCINES

Many parents are worried that some vaccines are not safe and may harm their baby or young child. They may ask their doctor or nurse to wait, or even refuse to have the vaccine. However, it is important to also think about the risks of not having the vaccination.

Some people believe that the small amount of mercury (called thimerosal) that is a common preservative in multidose vaccines causes autism or ADHD. However, studies have NOT shown this risk to be true.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, and The Institute of Medicine (IOM) agree that no vaccine or component of any vaccine is responsible for the number of children who are currently being diagnosed with autism. They conclude that the benefits of vaccines outweigh the risks.

All of the routine childhood vaccines are available in single-dose forms that do not contain added mercury.

There are parents who have seen their healthy normal children changed in 24hrs into basket cases and the only thing they experienced was a vaccination. These parents who know that their children were harmed by this are bullied by those who are supposed to provide care (their doctors) and those who supposedly support them (crackpots). People have looked into the technology of vaccinations and even the mercury that is used as a preservative in multi-dose shots.

However, what is not properly understood is that there is what is considered an "acceptable" level of side effects. I worked with a guy that contracted polio from a polio vaccine when he was a kid. He told me that a percentage of the money charged for the polio vaccine goes into a fund to pay those few children who get polio from the vaccine.

There are other side effects such as brain inflammation. Brain tissue can swell dramatically in reaction to a vaccination or infection and cause permanent damage. I suspect that if one were to find the cause of this infrequent, but real damage, it would be among those side effects that are considered "acceptable".

Regressive ASD is this one subcategorial entity of autistic disorders that always stimulates a lot of apprehension amongst parents whilst observing their child's developmental phases, and it's been hypothesized outwith the mainstream media and scientific community by immunologists; biochemists, and alternative health practitioners to be predominantly induced by a environmental toxicants like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); heavy metals, formaldehyde, pesticides, Round up herbicide, poor dietary schemes, genetically engineered food, food additives, aspartame, and of course the most tedious and astringently contentious one of all, the chemicals preserved in vaccinations; which act as multifactorial influences on the genetic expression phenotype without any fluctuations of the DNA, and subsequently the child "develops" a postnatal regression which "descends his/herself into autism." The perspectives of skepticism movement and the conventional medical practice is that parents always attribute their child's regressive autism to vaccines such as the MMR because it's generally inoculated to children around typical stages of childhood development when one can experience the initial symptomatic aspects of regressive autism (18-24 months of age)

As for my reflections on Gary Null, I watched the alternative health guru's documentary two months ago and I found it very depressing because of the negative stereotypes it promoted that would simply not correspond to more medically healthy, intellectually able and physically adaptive people with autism; in other words, us aspergians and autists who are a genetic leap of evolution. As an autistic rights activist myself, I would formally advise anyone who advocates neurodiversity or the acceptance of autistic people (whether they are neurotypical, have Asperger's syndrome/HFA, or the low functioning autistics who may be nonverbal, but have at least normal intellectual ability and receptive linguistic comprehension) before watching this exorbitantly disconcerting documentary, because it is dedicated to the biomedical movement that firmly advocates complimentary and alternative treatments for children with autism. This methodology of treatment is often met with utmost denunciation by some adherents in the neurodiversity movement.

Some of the professionals who featured in this documentary like the geneticist Mark Geier have disreputable credentials, as he was notorious for innovating the rebarbative Lupron protocol, which is a now defunct intervention defined as the juxtaposition of chelation therapy and leuprolide on the emphasis of an unfounded "mercury testosterone" hypothesis, and a glutathione deficiency which occludes the conversion of two different chelating agents. These agents in turn subsequently subdues glutathione to an infinitesimal level, thus illustrating that leuprorelin can dramatically mitigate autism by lowering levels of mercury in the testosterone. As Leuprolide is a form of pharmaceutical castration, this can easily result in irrevocable damage to the sexual productive system. All of Geier's medical licenses have been revoked with the last one by the State Medical board of Hawaii last year.

Another solicitation of concern is my questioning of the motives of the Canary Party's chairman Mark Blaxill, not because he fervently advocates the "discredited" vaccine hypotheses, but he superciliously expresses a shockingly falsifiable and unfounded claim at the "1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism" committee on oversight & government reform conference of that the prevalence of autism was equivalent to zero prior to the introduction of the eythlmercury preservative thimerosal being implemented in childhood vaccines. I found that intellectually mendacious of Blaxill to discard the overlooked environmental factors and scientifically reputable genetic factors that can contribute to the autistic spectrum itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy2ZcYqk4Bk

I thought regression happens around 18 months not 3 years.