[lou_lou]

The GAPS in our Medical Knowledge
Fifteen or twenty years ago, the majority of doctors never saw an autistic child. It was a rare disorder that most people had never heard of, afflicting about one child in 10,000. Today, on average in this country, one child in 150 is diagnosed with autism. With a 40-fold increase in newly diagnosed cases of autism, we have an absolute epidemic
http://www.westonaprice.org/children...1379-gaps.html

[EnglishCountryDancer]

I do not dispute that many conditions start in the gut and believe that many people are eating in such a way tha they are lacking many essential nutrients. I do though, dispute the fact that children with autism were almost unknown in the past.I have spent my entire life working with children and have training in child psychology My experience has been exclusively in the U.K.Looking back over forty years, I can now recognise that many of the children with whom I had contact did indeed have a dregree of autism. Today they would be recognised as having the condition, but then they were just thought of as odd.Thus it was only those severly affected who were labelled as autistic.If you look around with an eye that recognises the condition you come to realise that there are many adults within the community with a degree of autism. Many who are intelligent learn the skills they need to function within a community:not easy. Others we often label as misfits.
Many of the other conditions mentioned are the same: it is a matter of diagnosis.I can think of many sad cases of children who were labelled as odd or difficult who today might be given a proper diagnosis..
I could go on for pages but this is a Parkinson's forum.