The Amish are a very interesting community of believers. If not everyone has heard of them, I invite you to click on this link:

http://detektywprawdy.blogspot.com/2013/01/jak-moze-moze-wygladac-idealna.html

If anyone already knows them, keep reading.

"An original, unpublished article by former UPI journalist Dan Olmsted, who now runs the website ageofautism.com. Published in 2005, the article started a debate in the US about the potential link between vaccinations and autism, and the author became the target of vicious attacks.

Part 1: The Age of Autism. The Amish Anomaly

Lancaster, April 18, 2005.

Where are the autistic Amish? Here in Lancaster County, the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch County, there should be over 100 people with some form of this disorder.

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The Age of Autism. An Amish anomaly

Dan Olmsted

May 4, 2015

Original, unpublished article by former UPI journalist Dan Olmsted, who now runs the website ageofautism.com. Published in 2005, the article started a debate in the US about the potential link between vaccinations and autism, and the author became the target of vicious attacks.

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Part 1: The Age of Autism. The Amish Anomaly

Lancaster, April 18, 2005.

Where are the autistic Amish? Here in Lancaster County, the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch County, there should be over 100 people with some form of this disorder.

I came on the scene to find them, but so far my mission has failed, and literally the few cases I have identified raise some very important questions when it comes to commonly held beliefs about autism.

The consensus scientific opinion, spread through the mainstream media, is that autism is a genetic disorder that has existed everywhere for millennia at a rate roughly similar to its prevalence today. Currently, it is estimated that 1 in 166 children born in the United States is autistic [since this article was published, these rates have clearly gone up - ed. aside, even those not looking for its potential links to autism can see that the autism case statistics are going up inexorably].

If you apply this model to the county Lancaster, phere should be 140 Amish men, women and children with autism spectrum disorders.

Okay, let's round that up to 100.

Typically, half would manifest moderately mild variants such as Asperger's syndrome, various holistic developmental disorders, PDD-NOS, etc.

So let's take these cases out of our calculation, although "mild" is a relative term when it comes to autism.

This means that more than 50 members of the Amish community, out of the full age range, should live in Lancaster County and have full-blown autism, "classic autism," first described in 1943 by a child psychiatrist Leo Kanner at Johns Hopkins University. A disorder of fullnoobjaw is hard to miss because it is characterized by "significantly abnormal or limited development of social interaction and communication skills and a markedly restricted range of activities and interests," according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

But why look for autistics among the Amish? Because they may hold the key to unraveling the mystery of autism.

The first half-dozen articles in an emerging series on the causes of autism were devoted to early research and early reports on the disorder, which was first identified by Kanner among eleven American children born after 1931.

Kanner wrote the following about his encounter with the childm from Mississippi, identified as Donald T. "...I realized that this was a pattern of behavior hitherto unknown to me or to anyone else." And yet Kanner wrote a book, Child Psychiatry ("Child Psychiatry"), which he published in 1934.

If Kanner was right - if autism was a new and increasingly present and noticeable disorder - something must have happened in the 1930s, something that triggered the emergence of those first cases of autism. Genetic disorders do not begin suddenly, and their spread does not increase dramatically over a short period of time.

That's why it's worth looking at the autistic Amish - to contrast the thrust of the argument with reality. Largely cut off from hundreds of years of American culture and scientific progress, the Amish may be less likely tożeni to some new factors that trigger autism in the rest of the population.

Amazingly, it seemed that no one was looking at it.

The most conservative Amish still do not use cars, electricity or cell phones. They also do not accept vaccinations.

Of course, the Amish world is parochial by its very nature. Finding a small slice of the Amish population is a challenge by design. Many Amish, especially Old Order, travel by horse and carriage, shun electricity, don't attend public schools, don't pose for pictures, and don't talk to "English" people they meet, as they carefully call non-Amish.

However, some Amish now interact with the outside world in many different ways. Some drive cars, use phones, visit doctors, and send Christmas cards with pictures of their family. They still refer to themselves as "Plain" (the term refers to Christian religious communities living a life away from the world, which is also reflected in simple dress), but the meaning of the word has already changed somewhat.

So far, based on sources of information from both inside and outside theąthree Amish communities, I have identified 3 Lancaster County residents belonging to the Amish who clearly have full-blown autism. All of them are children.

A local woman told me that there is a class of about thirty "special needs" Amish children. There is one autistic Amish child in this class.

Another autistic Amish child is out of school.

The third is this woman's preschool-aged daughter.

If there were more, she said, she would know about it.

But what I learned about these children is the subject of the next installment.

Source : (United Press Intenationa):
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2005/04/19/The_Age_of_Autism_The_Amish_anomaly/UPI-95661113911795/

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Part 2: The Age of Autism. Julia

Leola, April 19, 2005.

Three-year-old Julia is napping when I arrive at the modest, neat, cozy home, located on Musser School Road near the town of Leola in Lancaster County.

She is the reason I was driving my car through a promising rural area on this beautiful spring day. But in fact, I didn't need to meet her at all.

In a recent article, I wrote about trying to find autistic Amish in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country county and found that there should be dozens of them - if autism were present in the area in the same proportions as in the rest of the U.S. Zjednates.

But so far there is evidence of only 3 cases, all among children - the oldest being 9 or 10 years old. Julia represents one of those cases. I learned about her through a pediatrician in Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Mary Megson. I had been asking her about autism and the Amish for quite a long time, and it was she who provided me with my first direct contact.

Dr. Megson said she would forward my name to the baby's mother, who would call me if she wanted to.

A few days later, the phone rang. The voice of Stacey-jean Inion, an Amish Mennonite woman, sounded in the receiver. She, her husband, and their four children led a simple life, but they drove a car and owned a telephone. After exchanging pleasantries, I told her about my efforts to find autistic Amish people.

Here's what she said, word for word:

"Unfortunately, our autistic daughter - who is making progress, has a diagnosis of very, very severe autism - but she was adopted from China, and she received all of her vaccines in China before we got her, and then she received most of her vaccines in the United States before we adopted her.

So we are probably not exactly the case you are looking for."

Perhaps not, but it was surprising that Julia Inion, the first autistic Amish child I could find, turned out to be adopted-and from another country. It was also surprising that Stacey-jean passed uninvited on the subject of vaccines, because the Amishthat concerns a religious exception when it comes to vaccinations, and presumably vaccines did not occupy her mind much.

She said a minority of Amish families are actually vaccinating their children now, partly due to urging from health system officials.

"Almost every Amish family I know has had someone from the health department knock on their door at some point to convince them to give vaccines to their children," she said. The younger Amish are starting to get more and more vaccines. A minority of children are vaccinated, of course, but that is starting to change."

Does she know any other autistic Amish children? There are two more," she said.

"As to one, we are very sure that he was affected by a vaccine reaction, although the government did not agree with that.

Federal officials said there is no link between vaccinations and autism or cognitive impairment.

"As for the next one, I don't know if it was vaccinated or not." - she added.

During my visit to their home, I asked Stacey-jean why she linked the first case to the vaccine.

"There is one family, ktthat we know. Their daughter had a vaccine reaction and is now autistic. She walked and functioned likeo szczęplum, radiant baby, and 24 hours after the vaccination, her legs began to limp and she gave off her typical high-pitched squeal. The parents called the doctor and the doctor said everything was fine and most of the high-pitched squealing had passed."

"The girl has completely stopped talking," - said Stacey-jean. "She stopped making eye contact with people. She stayed in her own world."

"It happened around the 15th month of her life," Stacey-jean said. The child is now about 8 years old.

For the same reason, the "Chinese background" of the Julia Inion case is intriguing. China, India and Indonesiajand are among the countries rapidly moving toward mass vaccination programs. In certain vaccines, they use a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal, which allows protection from contamination due to the multiple needle insertions of reusable vaccine vials.

Thimerosal began to be phased out in the U.S. starting in 1999, after health authorities became concerned about the amount of mercury infants and children were receiving. Officials said they did so simply as a precaution, and that all the evidence preponderated in favor of rejecting any link between autism spectrum disorders and thimerosal or vaccines as such.

Julia China's vaccinations - all given on one day, around 15 months of age - likely contained thimerosal. The United States had stopped its use by the time the girl was born, but other countries, vaccinating millions of citizens, had not.

Stacey-jeans said the photoęJuliet's picture taken of her in Chinach, before she was vaccinated, showed a smiling, lively baby looking straight into the lens. The family that initially adopted her in the U.S. was overwhelmed, prtrying to cope with caring for an autistic child, and eventually gave Julia up for adoption again. Mr. and Mrs. Inion adopted her, realizing her diagnosis of severe autism.

Dan Olmsted, while still a journalist at UPI, began the media discussion of the vaccine-autism link back in 2005. After losing his job, he founded ageofautism.com

I tried very hard - and still do - to find people who know anything about other autistic Amish children. I learned from staff at a local health and social services agency in Lancaster that they had dealt with people in the Amish community who had certain disabilities, such as mental retardation, but no one admitted to seeing an autistic Amish child.

Of course, I may have fallen into a trap: in the case of the Amish, who I was most likely to learn about because they have more contact with the outside world, they are also more likely to adopt special needs children like Julia from outside their community. It is also more likely that it is their childi bęvaccinated.

Another factor: Mr. and Mrs. Inion are converts who belong to the Mennonite faction (Brent is an Asian American). They may simply not know about other autistic Amish who have been hiding in their families for centuries.

It's also possible that an isolated pool of Amish genes could confer some sort of immunity to autism - which could provide a useful base for researchers.

However it is, Stacey-jean believes it is impossible to find autistic Amish anywhere.

"This is unheard of among our people," she said. "My husband ownsśshall notedzihe said last week that so far he has never met a family that lives a healthy lifestyle and doesn't vaccinate their children that has an autistic child. We haven't met a single one."

"Everywhere I go (outside of the Amish community), I see autistic kids, just because I have an autistic daughter - at the grocery store, at the park, wherever I go. I don't see that in the Amish community."

Journalist Kyle Pearson of United Press International contributed to this article.

Source (United Press Intenationa):
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2005/04/19/The_Age_of_Autism_Julia/UPI-55491113918060/

Links to all 113 of Dan's articles (in English):

http://www.vaccinationnews.org/age-autism

There have been opinions that if Dan went to the regions of Pennsylvania today, given the rate of growth of autism cases in the US, he should meet not 100 but 200 autistic Amish there by now. However, there are still none? Why?

Could this be why authorities in the U.S. want to enact SB 277, a law that would remove religious exceptions, as in the case of the Amish, who were already being raided by medical authorities 10 years ago, according to the article? Perhaps they are a comparison group that is a threat to someone's interests?

Many Americans realize that enacting this law would mark the beginning of the formation of medical totalitarianism, so they are defending themselves against it in various ways, such as creating websites publicizing the issue, like this one:

http://www.sb277.org

source: http://prawdaoszczepionkach.pl/era-autyzmu-anomalia-amiszow,71,213.htm