To Debbie, autism/schizo

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In a message dated 4/18/01 5:55:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

jyounger@... writes:

> Debbie,

> I too have a sibling with schizophrenia, and I deeply suspect, and have had

> several others suspect and have family members (especially aunt/uncle of the

> ASD child) with schizo. My personal opinion is that our children have the

> genetic susceptibility, and something in our current environment is

> initiating the response (vaccines? ozone? fertilizers?). I think our

> siblings were spared the assault as babies, but the stress of teenhood, or

> maybe the long term exposure to milk/wheat was enough to finally kick it

> off, and since they were older (20-ish) they called it schizo. Because our

> babies are babies, they called it ASD. Just as a survey, in a late talking

> kids group I asked how many had a family member with schizo. 4 out of 6

> responses had a relative with schizophrenia or schizoid. That seems high to

> me.

> I asked my pediatric neurologist a year ago if they are related, and could

> my son be in a pre-schizo stage. He said " oh no, don't worry about it. We'll

> deal with it if it happens. There are lots of good drugs out there now and

> we have been able to shut down the institutions and put them back to work. "

> Ha!!! My a-- if I'm going to wait and see! And I don't know about your

> brother, but my sister is NOT fine! She lives at home with our mother -

> barely functioning.

> I hope that sticking with the diet is going to spare us.

>

>

>

Well first off your ped. neuro. is full of sh*t! My brother is NOT fine

either. He bounces from good funded housing with a team following his

progress back to the hospital, then back to the institution for a stint, then

back out to half way house, then in between sometimes running off for days on

end while my mother worries whether he is dead or alive! Meds are fine when

they take them but there are plenty of side effects still that causes him to

go off his meds and the endless cycle continues.

I am truely quilty of avoiding him or dealing with his problems. He seems to

fixate on me during family visits, mumbling things and saying that I am

talking about him etc. He is the paranioid schizophrenic type.

Now I am so truely and utterly terrified that this could happen to my son.

Yet in my reading I could only see a slight mention that a few ASD children

could develop schizophrenia, in fact the way it was worded it sounded more

like an ASD child could get schizophrenia just as any other child could? So

confusing. If anyone has more info on this I sure would appreciate it.

Thanks so much for sharing and thanks to others who responded also. I really

appreciate being able to chat like this about these topics as it takes

someone being there to really understand.

Debbie

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>Debbie,

I too have a sibling with schizophrenia, and I deeply suspect, and have had

several others suspect and have family members (especially aunt/uncle of the

ASD child) with schizo. My personal opinion is that our children have the

genetic susceptibility, and something in our current environment is

initiating the response (vaccines? ozone? fertilizers?). I think our

siblings were spared the assault as babies, but the stress of teenhood, or

maybe the long term exposure to milk/wheat was enough to finally kick it

off, and since they were older (20-ish) they called it schizo. Because our

babies are babies, they called it ASD. Just as a survey, in a late talking

kids group I asked how many had a family member with schizo. 4 out of 6

responses had a relative with schizophrenia or schizoid. That seems high to

me.

I asked my pediatric neurologist a year ago if they are related, and could

my son be in a pre-schizo stage. He said " oh no, don't worry about it. We'll

deal with it if it happens. There are lots of good drugs out there now and

we have been able to shut down the institutions and put them back to work. "

Ha!!! My a-- if I'm going to wait and see! And I don't know about your

brother, but my sister is NOT fine! She lives at home with our mother -

barely functioning.

I hope that sticking with the diet is going to spare us.