The Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2005/04/19/The-Age-of-Autism-The-Amish-anomaly/95661113911795/

LANCASTER, Pa., April 18 (UPI) -- Part 1 of 2. Where are the autistic Amish? Here in Lancaster County, heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, there should be well over 100 with some form of the disorder.

I have come here to find them, but so far my mission has failed, and the very few I have identified raise some very interesting questions about some widely held views on autism.

The mainstream scientific consensus says autism is a complex genetic disorder, one that has been around for millennia at roughly the same prevalence. That prevalence is now considered to be 1 in every 166 children born in the United States.

Applying that model to Lancaster County, there ought to be 130 Amish men, women and children here with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Well over 100, in rough terms.

Typically, half would harbor milder variants such as Asperger's Disorder or the catch-all Pervasive Development Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified -- PDD-NOS for short.

So let's drop those from our calculation, even though "mild" is a relative term when it comes to autism.

That means upwards of 50 Amish people of all ages should be living in Lancaster County with full-syndrome autism, the "classic autism" first described in 1943 by child psychiatrist Leo Kanner at Johns Hopkins University. The full-syndrome disorder is hard to miss, characterized by "markedly abnormal or impaired development in social interaction and communication and a markedly restricted repertoire of activities and interests," according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Why bother looking for them among the Amish? Because they could hold clues to the cause of autism.

The first half-dozen articles in this ongoing series on the roots and rise of autism examined the initial studies and early accounts of the disorder, first identified by Kanner among 11 U.S. children born starting in 1931.

Kanner wrote that his 1938 encounter with a child from Mississippi, identified as Donald T., "made me aware of a behavior pattern not known to me or anyone else theretofore." Kanner literally wrote the book on "Child Psychiatry," published in 1934.

If Kanner was correct if autism was new and increasingly prevalent something must have happened in the 1930s to trigger those first autistic cases. Genetic disorders do not begin suddenly or increase dramatically in prevalence in a short period of time.

That is why it is worth looking for autistic Amish -- to test reasoning against reality. Largely cut off for hundreds of years from American culture and scientific progress, the Amish might have had less exposure to some new factor triggering autism in the rest of population.

Surprising, but no one seems to have looked.

Of course, the Amish world is insular by nature; finding a small subset of Amish is a challenge by definition. Many Amish, particularly Old Order, ride horse-and-buggies, eschew electricity, do not attend public school, will not pose for pictures and do not chat casually with the "English," as they warily call the non-Amish.

Still, some Amish today interact with the outside world in many ways. Some drive, use phones, see doctors and send out Christmas cards with family photos. They all still refer to themselves as "Plain," but the definition of that word varies quite a bit.

So far, from sources inside and outside the Amish community, I have identified three Amish residents of Lancaster County who apparently have full-syndrome autism, all of them children.

A local woman told me there is one classroom with about 30 "special-needs" Amish children. In that classroom, there is one autistic Amish child.

Another autistic Amish child does not go to school.

The third is that woman's pre-school-age daughter.

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

What I learned about those children is the subject of the next column.

PART 2: The Age of Autism: Julia

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>>90160

Three-year old Julia is napping when I arrive at the spare, neat, cheerful house on Musser School Road near the town of Leola in Lancaster County.

She is the reason I have driven through the budding countryside on this perfect spring day, but I really do not need to meet her.

In the last column, I wrote about trying to find autistic Amish people here in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, and noted there should be dozens of them -- if autism occurs at the same prevalence as the rest of the United States.

So far, there is evidence of only three, all of them children, the oldest age 9 or 10. Julia is one of them. I found out about her through a pediatrician in Richmond, Va., Dr. Mary Megson. I had been asking around for quite some time about autism and the Amish, and she provided the first direct link.

Megson said she would give my name to this child's mother, who could call if she chose. A few days later the phone rang. It was Stacey-jean Inion, an Amish-Mennonite woman. She, her husband Brent and their four children live

simply, but they do drive a vehicle and have a telephone. After a few pleasantries, I told her about my trying to find autistic Amish.

Here is what she said, verbatim:

"Unfortunately our autistic daughter who's doing very well, she's been diagnosed with very, very severe autism is adopted from China, and so she would have had all her vaccines in China before we got her, and then she had most of her vaccines given to her in the United States before we got her.

"So we're probably not the pure case you're looking for."

Maybe not, but it was stunning that Julia Inion, the first autistic Amish person I could find, turned out to be adopted -- from another country, no less. It also was surprising that Stacey-jean launched unbidden into vaccines, because the Amish have a religious exemption from vaccination and presumably would not have given it much thought.

She said a minority of Amish families do, in fact, vaccinate their children these days, partly at the urging of public health officials.

"Almost every Amish family I know has had somebody from the health department knock on our door and try to convince us to get vaccines for our children," she said. "The younger Amish more and more are getting vaccines. It's a minority of children who vaccinate, but that is changing now."

Did she know of any other autistic Amish? Two more children, she said. "One of them, we're very certain it was a vaccine reaction, even though the government would not agree with that."

Federal health officials have said there is no association between vaccinations and autism or learning disabilities.

"The other one I'm not sure if this child was vaccinated or not," she added.

During my visit to their home, I asked Stacey-jean to explain why she attributed the first case to vaccines.

"There's one family that we know, their daughter had a vaccine reaction and is now autistic. She was walking and functioning and a happy bright child, and 24 hours after she had her vaccine, her legs went limp and she had a typical high-pitched scream. They called the doctor and the doctor said it was fine -- a lot of high-pitched screaming goes along with it.

"She completely quit speaking," Stacey-jean said. "She completely quit making eye contact with people. She went in her own world."

This happened, Stacey-jean said, at "something like 15 months." The child is now about 8.

For similar reasons, Julia Inion's Chinese background is intriguing. China, India and Indonesia are among countries moving quickly to mass-vaccination programs. In some vaccines, they use a mercury-based preservative called

thimerosal that keeps multiple-dose vials from becoming contaminated by repeated needle sticks.

>>90162

Thimerosal was phased out of U.S. vaccines starting in 1999, after health officials became concerned about the amount of mercury infants and children were receiving. The officials said they simply were erring on the side of caution, and that all evidence favors rejection of any link between Autism Spectrum Disorders and thimerosal, or vaccines themselves.

Julia's vaccinations in China all given in one day at about age 15 months may well have contained thimerosal; the United States had stopped using it by the time she was born, but other countries with millions to vaccinate had not.

Stacey-jean said photographs of Julia taken in China before she was vaccinated showed a smiling alert child looking squarely at the camera. Her original adoptive family in the United States, overwhelmed trying to cope with an autistic child, gave Julia up for re-adoption. The Inions took her in knowing her diagnosis of severe autism.

I tried hard and am still trying to find people who know about other autistic Amish. Of the local health and social service agency personnel in Lancaster, some said they dealt with Amish people with disabilities, such as mental retardation, but none recalled seeing an autistic Amish.

Still, I could be trapped in a feedback loop: The Amish I am likeliest to know about because they have the most contact with the outside world also are likeliest to adopt a special-needs child such as Julia from outside the community, and likeliest to have their children vaccinated.

Another qualifier: The Inions are converts to the Amish-Mennonite religion (Brent is an Asian-American). They simply might not know about any number of autistic Amish sheltered quietly with their families for decades.

It also is possible the isolated Amish gene pool might confer some kind of immunity to autism -- which might be a useful topic for research.

Whatever the case, Stacey-jean thinks the autistic Amish are nowhere to be found.

"It is so much more rare among our people," she said. "My husband just said last week that so far we've never met a family that lives a healthy lifestyle and does not vaccinate their children that has an autistic child. We haven't come across one yet."

"Everywhere I go (outside the Amish community) I find children who are autistic, just because I have an autistic daughter -- in the grocery store, in the park, wherever I go. In the Amish community, I simply don't find that."

UPI researcher Kyle Pearson contributed to this article.

>>90161

>Dr Judy Wood made a perfect solution, IMO, as to why that happened (why didn't they go down with the Tower? Why were they pulling off their clothes? Why had they wet themselves with water? Why didn't they wait to see if they could be rescued?

>

Judy Wood claimed LITERALLY that and I fucking quote:

"Someone choosing to jump to their death would likely choose to carry something special with them, perhaps a photo of their loved one or even a briefcase.

Yet it is striking that none of the people in these photos appear to be carrying anything, as if they were caught completely by surprise, perhaps on the way from the restroom."

You want to shame someone based on their theories as a shill, but claim that THIS right here would be totally legit?

>>90169

Going for "it was all fake" isn't even that far fetched.

There were actors on scene, that is a fact, unless you want to say that "some people just talk as if they read shitty scripts spoiling 9/11", and that "B thing" / "E team" thing was even more weird.

Such a theory isn't that surprising, just look at the "B thing" book.

https://anonfiles.com/1eb0N5G1ud/b_thing1_jpg

https://anonfiles.com/35b1NeG0uf/NYP-07_png

https://anonfiles.com/7bbbN2G8u7/NYP-02_png

Many people feel the jumpers were staged. Anyway, this piece of "art" has great significance as a pre 9/11 piece. NO ONE WOULD HAVE SUSPECTED THAT A PLANE WOULD CRASH INTO THE TRADE CENTER never mind jump from it.

"300 meters of PURE PLEASURE"

How sick are these people?

I mean it being staged would be in fact better, because otherwise they fully planned it out in advance.

>>90169

Also I just see what Judy Woods book says about one of the photos of one of the jumpers:

Figure 24: RELIEF

WHAT

THE

FUCK

The more I think about this, the B-thing book of the Israeli "art students" and Judy Woods book fit together perfectly.

Jumping from buildings is "relief" and "pleasure". Sorry I gotta puke now.

>>90177

If you actually read my posts, "pleasure" comes from b-thing book, "relief" COMES from the Judy Wood book.

If you own it, just look for the quote I gave you.

And if you are at it, tell me what comes after that quote, just so that I'm sure that you actually own the book yourself.

>>90181

That's actually more credible, because actors were at the scene.

Actors + dummies makes more sense, and would make it less horrible, and more of a psy-op.

>>90180

>Or do you just like to quote out of context?

So you want to excuse this shit as being "out of context"?

What is the "right" context of that?

I guess calling a jumper photo "relief", which you said was not by Judy Woods, but it is, is also "out of context".

9/11 as a fear based mind control / MK ultra op makes total sense, and when you do that, you mix a bit of horror in, w/ these jumpers.

And when it's all scripted, you can plant "funny jokes" like in the b-thing book in advance too.

It all makes perfect sense as a movie.

"You are watching a movie."

>>90190

>You think it's plausible that no one was in the Towers.

Why not?

Could have been the case, I do not know.

You don't know either.

There were definitely far less than there should have been.

You try to shame me for thinking about the fake news being total fake news?

Why don't you shame me too for me calling certain people at the scene "actors"? Because shaming doesn't work for that anymore?

>There were people working in there.

>anon has photos.

Photos do not prove anything, are you new here?

Crisis ACTORS everywhere.

ACTORS were AT THE SCENE.

That's the problem when a so called government corporation has basically unlimited funs, and can hire all sorts of shills and actors and other shit.

I'm not saying no one died, because firefighters surely died, at the very least months/years later.

>You could see masses of people flowing out of the Towers every day

What are you trying to do here?

And no, I never saw "masses of people" there, because I don't live in New York, like 99.999% of the world population.

>Shack is so credible.. That's why he bans people from his site?

I see, first you ask me something, then I act unexpected and say yes, maybe ALL is fake, because tons was fake on that day, and now you are going "well, this means that this guy is totally credible."

I don't know "shack", whoever that is. I don't care. I don't know who it is. But if he has a theory about even the jumpers being fake, then I would watch him. Doubting everything the fake news broadcasts is good.

You on the other hand are defending non stop something the fake news has claimed, as well as the rest. Trump called the fake news fake news for a reason.

>But people believe any shit.

>People will believe anything

Yes, most people believe any SHIT the fake news spits out. And that's my problem. And it should be yours too.

>"Those you trust the most"

I trust neither you, nor "Shack", who I don't even know, nor "Jones", whoever that is.

I trust no one and I expect especially on 9/11 that basically everything that can still stay up being government corporation controlled aka fake and phony.

Interesting this here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noMZjpwJmjQ

>Q

>>90195

also this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5yhrQZPqQ

>Q

WTC exploding man, A person gets blown out of the WTC by what looks like an explosion

>>90195

Polish text, translated:

"How did I know it is not a real person blown out with smoke?"

1. Dimensions of the human body.

On the same footage 9/11 Stabilized WTC2 NIST FOIA WNYW Dub1 35

we can see a real person on the column.

Dimensions of black object is really different.

This black blown object must be a 10 feet tall person or 10 feet arms width people.

People like this do not exist.

1. by colours. It's like foil.

On black object we can not recognize human body parts.

But we can recognize real human body parts who sits on column.

How is that possible? Possible because object is not a real person.

>>90197

>If I show the photo and the date maybe you can prove why it's faked. And why you know that

Look up the term crisis actor.

A crisis actor is a real person, but he is acting.

Are you joking?

A photo featuring a crisis actor is totally a real photo and not faked at all, as in modified, but the content of the photo is still fake, because it's not an actual person, but a crisis actor, just like with certain shootings.

>Photos are forensic evidence; that's why they are forged.

What

>Shack and his team hate America

You are acting really weird.

>with their BS

I remember originally this was about the possibility of the jumpers being fake, and now you claim "they are the enemies of the US, they confuse people with their BS"

The enemies of the US are at the very least the FAKE NEWS. That's a fact. See corona hoax, see war drumming.

And you are defending a certain plot line of the fake news plot on 9/11, and calling people who claim otherwise "shills" and "enemies of the US", similar to how the fake news called people "enemies of the US" when getting called out by them on their "2 planes brought down 3 buildings" plot.

I think that's fascinating.

>>90201

Have you actually watched the videos?

Nothing of that post of yours makes any sense in context of these 2 videos.

The first one I linked to is a montage of multiple videos combined in one, and claims that actually make sense.

And the videos are about "someone" or rather something getting blown out of the WTC building, not about a jumper or jumpers in any case.

NEW Fuellmich Corona Live stream (English version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGuu9WVd-cw

>>90208

>Why would you think that?

Because I wrote about crisis actors and you respond with "Ill show photo and you prove why it's fake", which is a ridiculous claim to make, especially when it's about crisis actors.

It's not about a photo montage, so the photo may in fact be real, but it may simply be an actor playing a role, just like the few people, who also filmed planes hitting the buildings.

People blindly trusting them because someone claims these are "just normal random people" is retarded, because that doesn't give them credibility either.

1 actor on the scene ("Mark Ground Zero Walsh") means that it's highly likely that way more actors were at the scene as well.

The ones doing these movies aren't stupid. They know exactly what they are doing.

>>90212

No time or ability to watch them?

I'm not your bot, they are short. It's not my problem that you don't want to watch them and reply with a ridiculous nonsensical post instead of doing well nothing at all.

Are you a bot?

>>90211

>i watched live - din seem like CGI

You are absolutely sure that this part was definitely a live broadcast?

If I would have to fake these, I would use practical effects, and fake it in advance to show it when the time was right.

Are there recordings of the live broadcast anywhere?

Would be interesting if the camera was static, or zooming in and out.

>>90217

Why are you now replying to you own post?

>>90221

>I was replying to two posts there.

I never claimed you only replied to your own post, but you replied to your own post and not in a "I have to extended this post"-way.

>not just to myself.

I never claimed that.

>why do you lie?

I didn't.

>What difference does it make if I reply to myself, anyway?

I was asking a question, and instead of simply giving me an answer, you call me a liar.

>>90222

>Watching live means the person was there.

I asked how can he be sure that the broadcast was really live

>Certainly the heli pilots saw it.

Why should I trust some fake news heli pilots?

>It was broadcast on German TV and the stills of her are part of the NIST official record.

NIST are proven frauds and liars, that claim that a building can collapse perfectly in basically free fall due to office fires. Irrelevant.

German TV are also proven frauds and fake news as well. Irrelevant either.

>>90223

>there was more people there than just Edna.

I have no idea who you are talking about.

With unlimited gobbermint funds you fan afford unlimited crisis actors.

And none of your post answer my question which was: HOW DO YOU KNOW that these parts were really LIVE broadcasts?

I don't trust the fake news at all, which means everything needs to be proven. If it was a zoomed in shot, then that shot could have been made in advance using simple Hollywood magic.

>>90225

>we

How do you know who I am, meanwhile using words like "we"?

>Why claim I wrote things I didn't write

Ok, whatever you claim.

Let's look back.

in my reply to my post about crisis actors at the scene:

>>90197

>Photos do prove many things.

>If I show the photo and the date maybe you can prove why it's faked.

And I wrote:

>Because I wrote about crisis actors and you respond with "Ill show photo and you prove why it's fake

which is literally what you wrote.

You are a shitty troll and wasting my time.

Good bye.

>>90227

I already downloaded it.

>>90231

>yes i watched it live.

Being labeled a "live broadcast" doesn't mean that everything was actually live.

Is there a recording and did you ever check if there is anything to verify that it was indeed live?

>watched ON TV, yes - but coverage seemed authentic

That's the job of the fake news, to seem to be authentic. They were also authentic when "reporting" about the babies in the incubators.

It's their job to look like that.

>RAW coverage

Could have been fake as well.

As I said already, there were actors at the scene.

>heard the crashing of glass and bodies hitting the ground, saw the reactions of people on the ground

Doesn't disprove that it wasn't a pre-recorded movie, and even if it was actually live, could still have been crisis actors at the scene too.

>mebbe anything can be faked but it was pretty horrific

It was supposed to be like that for the viewer, so that the viewers are shocked and in awe, so the US corp can invade multiple countries without problems.

Plus brainwashed and shocked soldiers doing anything you tell them.

In a way pretty brilliant in a way.