February 08, 2015

Why Don't the Amish Have Autistic Children?


Traveling to the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country in search of autistic Amish children, the reporter, based on national statistics, should have found as many as 200 children with autism in the community -- instead, he found only three, the oldest age 9 or 10:
  • The first autistic Amish child was a girl who had been brought over from China, adopted by one family only to be given up after becoming overwhelmed by her autism, and then re-adopted by an Amish Mennonite family. (China, India and Indonesia are among countries moving fast to mass-vaccination programs.)
  • The second autistic Amish child definitely had received a vaccination and developed autism shortly thereafter.
  • The reporter was unable to determine the vaccination status of the third child.
    ***Read full article here***

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The fact that Wikipedia has a page on this "anomaly" and that they don't throw around their usual ad hominem poisoning the well fallacies like "conspiracy theorists" shows that there is some explaining to do about this difference among Amish vs. the rest of us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_anomaly

The article laughably tries to claim some possible genetic differences -- yeah, right.

"Autism is proven to have many genetic or epigenetic links.[15] If prevalence of ASDs did vary in a relatively isolated, closed population such as Amish communities, it would more likely be explained by gene pool variations to the general population. Similarly to Amish having statistically higher rates of some conditions (such as dwarfism, angelman syndrome and metabolic disorders), they could also be expected to have lower rates of some others.[16]"