why do people say it is impossible to be born with autism?

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people say all sorts of things. i do not pay much attention to what people say .

These are probably people who think vaccinations are the cause of autism. My Mom knew there was something different about me long before I was ever vaccinated. I was definitely born with autism.

We know so little about "Autism" that every weird off the wall idea about it can flourish without impairment by the facts! What is needed is some real effort put into discovering just what we mean with the term "Autism Spectrum". Right now the CDC has published a number 1 in 110 are "Autistic", that about 8% of children have "ADHD", other sources places "Asperger's" at 1 in 105 or that 1 in 44 are on the "spectrum" - now I could go on with these wild ass claims -- there is no end in sight for such foolishness.

Our problem is simple - no clear definitions of what is being talked about - we are constantly adding new individuals to the "spectrum" and being shocked by the rapid increase in "Autism".

What I suspect is that we will find if and when in depth studies are done with open minds in this field is that for the great vast majority of us especially for Asperger's and HFA is that we inhibited it from our parents through a large number of genes spread over many chromosomes. Also very likely we will find that some low functioning Autism and non-typical display of some on the "spectrum" may well turn out to be flawed single gene mutations (Fragile X is already known and is considered on the spectrum) or may be some cases will be brain injury or some form of poisoning. Once we are willing to look at just what we now are trying to lump into one big pot of Autism consists of with open minds we will figure out that is is several conditions with unique causative factors.

By the way this would not be the first time this lumping together similar conditions and confusing them as all the same thing has happened in medical history. - Look up the history of Stomach Ulcers. It was only after a back water doctor in Australia proved that most (but not all) ulcers were in fact infections that could be cured with anti-bionics did the medical establishment get a handle on this entire area of human health.

We must do much the same for the "Autism Spectrum".

Some parents may not even notice the symptoms because they don't know what is normal behavior in a toddler or infant because they are their first child. Temple Grandin's mother didn't notice until she met her neighbor who had a daughter who was the same age as Temple but she was a little older than her by a month? or so. That was when she started to notice something was wrong with her so at age two, she took her in to get her checked out and the doctor suggested she institutionalize her after he said she had brain damage. That is what they called autism back then too.

Now today it seems like parents are worrying about if their kid is autistic or not when to me it's obviously nothing. They compare their child to another child all because of this autism awareness stuff.