heredity? Never heard of it being that!

truth is no one really knows what causes it, but everyone has a place to point a finger

I have 14 aunts and uncles and cant count cousins.I never heard of autism until 2005 when my 5 year old was diagnosed.I totally feel you.i want to know the whys to that only some people can give answers to.I learned one thing about emotional intelligence when I was a teenager.It stuck with me and I am amzed to know that the brain developes from the bottom up.Our immune systom developes first.i think more research should be done on the immune systom along with the genes.I looked up these sites and never had time to read much, but theres a lot of information about genes.Too much for one night thats for sure.-www.pubmed.gov-behavioral genetics-genomics.energy.gov-genome.gov-http.www.satanicvaccines.I never knew about genocide or demoside.Look up The One World Order and depopulation its totally weird and scary.Then you ask yourself what do you beleive?

I didnt know much about autism until my sisters son, now 10, was diagnosed. His was the first ASD diagnosis in our family. Since then there have been 2 more (one being DS) & 1 untested but probably. However my family has lots of ADHD.

ADD/ADHD are believed by many to be just off the spectrum or a related disorder. I find this easy to believe. DD1 is ADHD & I commented to the Psych who diagnosed DS that she actually scored more autistic than he did in most areas but was always very advanced in speech/language. - In todays diagnostic climate it is possible that DD1 (& a nephew)(both adults) would have been diagnosed as ASD not ADHD.

It has been my observation that ADHDs are sensitive to common toxins in our environment. Things like food colors, artificial flavors and airborne pollutants. They are like canaries in the coal mines, warning us of danger in our environment. ASDs are similarly sensitive.

While ASD is a collection of symptoms & (I believe) will ultimately be found to be several disorders, at least one of which is hereditary & related to ADHD.

I have read some where that they believe it might be cause from the mercury in vaccinations. Its starting to show up clusters.

Read the book Poisoned Nation Ch 5 is all about Autism!

Some may be related to mercury (thimerosol) in vaccinations or the vaccine itself. But not all.

DS showed signs before any shots and I did not have any shots while pregnant. He has the non-regressive type of Autism.

I read somewhere that if you remove the regressive ASD cases from the statistics the numbers havent gone up. (An argument for at least 2 types.) Also, 30% of ASDs have seizures, which is cause/effect?

I had always heard that it was the MRI shot that was the big concern. Recently I was told that the Hep.B shot and the chicken pox shot also was found to have elivated Mercury levels in them. My son showed signs after the Hep. B shot and not the MRI shot. So it all came together for me when I was told that it was several shots and their mercury that are being looked at. levels.

http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm
http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm#t1

Shows levels of mercury in vaccines.

I might be possible that you would have to look at family history of depression as well. I've run across in research where there could be a possible relation due to both affecting seratonin levels. If that's the case, both me and my grandmother suffer from clinical depression. But otherwise, my son has a second cousin who is also ASD. So it does show up in our family.
I believe you will also find in research that there is a connection between mercury and heredity in ASD. Supposedly there is an inherited gene that affects how metal toxins are expunged from the body. Therefore a child can be affected first by heredity, then by toxins - all combining to cause ASD symptoms. Personally, I still think it's all one big mess. There are so many different perspectives. But at least people are conducting research and maybe soon we will have a defined answer.
I too, as freeinspirit said, have a son who shows non-regressive autism. So it's highly likely that heredity played a part - possibly compounded by environmental issues.

I dont think they really know what causes Autism, I know My daughter is the first in my and my husbands family to have it, and I never heard about it till she was found to have it,,But they are doing genetic testing now to see if its a genetic disorder, My daughter actually goes in February to see a genetist, for genetic testing, and her dr told me today that he had two kids this week come back positive with a broken chromosome, so there is something going on...

My brother was diagnosed as Aspergers at age 22, after my son was diagnosed with Autism. Mum knew there was something wrong with him as a kid, but none of the doctors she took him to could figure it out.

There as as many theories about the cause of autism as there are kids with autism! I personally believe the multiple cause theory. I think some people are born with a genetic predisposition to autism, but it needs some sort of trigger to set it off (like vaccinations, or convulsions, or something). I also believe that people who weren't born with the predisposition can still develop autism if hit with the right trigger (not everyone has a family history of autism). But I do believe that either way you have to be hit with the trigger very early on, like within the first year of life, maybe even less. This is absolutely a developmental disorder and it has to hit before you reach a certain point of development.
In my son's case, there was that small family history so he may have had a genetic predisposition, and he had major serious febrile convulsions after his vaccinations at 6months, which I blame for his autism.
Didn't vaccinate either of my younger 2 kids at all.

my husband has no disorders of any kind in his family. adams mother has many developmental delays in her family, her daughters, adams sisters, both have learning delays, one is 10 yrs old and can not read or write and if i had to guess i would say she is somewhere on the spectrum just by spending a few days with her, she shows suttle signs. his older sister went to school with my oldeest daughter and she says that adams sister really struggled in school. adams mom has her own issues, i would go so far as to say she may be bipolar or and possibly OCD. it could also be possible that due to her not showing any emotion towards anyone in her life, i dont what that would be. so i guess what i am getting at is from adams family history, it is a toss up, could be inherited from mothers genes and trigger by vaccines, could just be vaccines, could just be genes, could be the smog in the air. who knows.

Sometimes we don't think there is a family history because many times diagnosis like asperger's syndrome were NOT found and families just had "geeks" or "nerds" in their families.

So, something else to think about.

hugs,

gaylek11

There is no family history on either side. Sam was the first and I just happened to come up on it on a web site after Sam had a meltdown which is when I started getting suspicious.

After five years of this, i can say that I am not so much concerned anymore with what caused it as much as what is going to be done about the thosands of children out there now who does have it as far as services, and services for families who have to cope. I think that if the government ever found out, they would never tell anyone.

Both DS and his cousin on my hubby side have asd. My son HFA and his cousin ASpergers. But I agree with "stayathomemom" a genetic predisposition with an environmental trigger such as Vac's or pollution. DD is perfectly typical. As are all the other cousins (nephews) on hubby's side