Vaccine's Hot Topic Hits NBC's 'ER' Program Tonight/ Asperger's

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Vaccine’s Hot Topic Hits NBC’s ‘ER’ Program Tonight

[This information comes from Dawn of PROVE (Parents

Requesting Open Vaccine Education) http://vaccineinfo.net and autism

research advocate Rick Rollens.]

A child dies after contracting measles because a mother refused to

have him vaccinated is the theme of tonight's episode of NBC's ER (9:00 p.m.

CST).

Sources who have previewed the episode tell PROVE that the television

drama contains an improbable story line about a family who chooses to not

vaccinate their children, and one of the children contracts measles when the

family travels out of the country to France, and later in the episode the

child dies from complications due to the measles.

The mother claims she's not a bad mother and that she has read all the

information about vaccine side effects (including autism), and that she has

even breastfed her child. The tone of communication with the family has

been described as patronizing.

PROVE is alerting concerned support groups of parents of vaccine

damaged children to be ready to voice their disappointment to the top

officials at NBC, if the episode plays out as awful as it is reported to be.

NBC can be contacted through their website at http://www.nbc.com.

Further details for making a response will be provided here after the airing

of the broadcast. Make sure you make copies of anything you send out to the

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Asperger's Sets its Victims Apart

[Medical Briefing By Dr Stuttaford.]

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-83032,00.html

People who suffer from Asperger’s syndrome were described by Hans

Asperger, the doctor who first defined the condition, as suffering from

“lifelong social isolation and conspicuous eccentricity”.

There are many other features of Asperger’s, including inability to

make eye contact, unusual posture, inappropriate social body language,

absence of the normal social and emotional relationships and an inability to

share life’s experiences with others. People with Asperger’s are very

ritualistic and often have distinctive personal mannerisms.

Dr Asperger published his description of the disorder in 1944, a year

after Leo Kanner had published his work on autism. The two conditions have

many similarities and many doctors believe that Asperger’s represents

high-level autism — autism associated with average or near-average

intelligence. When people with Asperger’s have a high intelligence they

often show the signs of “mad professor” syndrome: they are rigid, cold,

defensive when criticised, distant and prickly but may have an encyclopaedic

knowledge of some esoteric subject, such as downland butterflies or earwigs.

Even those who are less bright may have extraordinary abilities.

It is not uncommon for sufferers to be able to carry out detailed

calculations in their heads. A patient of mine, on being told that my

birthday was May 4, 1931, was able in a flash to tell me the day of the week

on which I was born.

Although the belief that Asperger’s and autism are related to

schizophrenia is no longer accepted, there may be a genetic component to the

development of these conditions and it is not unusual to find other members

of the family who display odd behaviour.

The generally accepted view is that although Asperger’s is not the

result of an abnormal upbringing, or a consequence of some unfortunate

experience, it is believed that a settled background is needed by sufferers

and that stability is essential for their wellbeing.

Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd.

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Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Autistic Children

If you happen to have access to " Clinical Perspectives in

Gastroenterology " . The Jan/Feb 2001 issue has this article in it

‘Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Autistic Children’ by Jenifer R. Lightdale,

M.D., Bryna Siegel, Ph.D., and Melvin B. Heyman, M.D.,M.P.H

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