AGE OF AUTISM: Cell Division, Autism and Ultrasound.

I’m not quoting any of the article, because the entire thing is worth reading. It’s also something I’ve been saying since 2000, so it’s nice to see someone backing me up.

Most of you know by now, my middle son has autism/is autistic, however you want to say it. I insist that he isn’t defined by his diagnosis, but his diagnosis is built-in, not something that we can treat and get rid of, so either way I guess.

Most of you also know we don’t do routine vaccines. I didn’t do routine prenatal healthcare (not after my oldest anyway, in terms of standard prenatal care). I don’t bombard my kids with antibiotics, tylenol or much of anything really.

I had a thousand and one sonograms/ultrarounds with Dorian. Why? I was so sick. Pneumonia, sepsis, kidney infection, thelist goes on. So while I was trying my hardest not to die, they were doing marathon sonograms, doppler, you name it. After that medical experience (which I didn’t want – I had wanted a nice, calm homebirth) I made sure my next pregnancies went more how I wanted.

I had no sonograms with Malachai. I had a few doppler checks (and by a few I mean three, total). I had a water birth. It was beautiful. My family was there, and Malachai came into the world so easily.

I had almost no care with Eshiva. Best pregnancy ever. I mean it. I delivered her with the aid of my mom and no one else. I caught her. It was painful (back labour, meconium, I did wind up at the hospital, but I had her on my own) but it was how birth should be.

So how did my child who had almost no medical intervention (a few doppler readings) wind up being my autistic child? Why not Dorian? Why not Eshiva? Is it genetic? We had gene testing done, but nothing was found. Just one of those things.

I am so happy to see articles like this, exploring what it could be, but in the end, they lead down dead ends for us, because we don’t do these things.

I was reading how WiFi, radio, mobile phones, can cause these changes too… even if I got rid of our WiFi at home, how do you avoid these things these days? It’s everywhere. I can’t go outside without being within range of three other WiFi accounts in my neighborhood alone – sometimes more if everyone is on at the same time.

So we wait. We wait to see what kind of collective damage we’ve done to ourselves, to our children.