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Caitlin, 18 Autism
In a recent USA TODAY article, Danish researchers believe they have found clues to determine why some children are diagnosed with autism.
The researchers have linked children with autism or related disorders with having a family history of autoimmune diseases; ie, Type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, and celiac disease.
Does this study really make any difference, or have any impact to why there is the disorder called Autism?
Every now and then, a study comes out to suggest why we have children with Autism. First was the "refrigerator mother" theory, which turned out to be untrue. Through the years we have heard autism is caused by the mother's age, the father's age, vaccinations given at birth, the MMR vaccination, vaccinations given to the expecting mother, and so on...and so on...
According to the Danish study, if the mother has a history of autoimmune disease, her chance of having a child with Autism increases. At the end of the article, it explains that this factor should not deter the mother from having a baby, because the chances of having an autistic child are still very minimal.
Every year, for the past 18 years that I have been living with a child with autism, some researcher somewhere has discovered some thing that may or may not contribute to my children's autism. With so many studies after so many years, no one person can honestly state why autism exists or where it came from.
My children are already here. I have stopped focusing on why they are autistic and now must focus on what needs to be done to make their futures not so bleak. Nothing can change the fact they have autism, but, I can change the what their future has in store. With so many children being diagnosed with autism, society will have to make a decision to keep ignoring the future of our children, or to try to make their futures brighter.
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