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To Regressive Autism Denialist Paul Offit: "Not Born With It"

Managing Editor's Note: We have no idea how Dr. Offit is getting away with his statement that regressive autism does not exist. In fact, The DSM-V revision pays close attention to regressive autism - and includes the following:

During the ensuing discussion, it was pointed out that regression may be a more common feature of autism than was previously thought with some prospective studies indicating that a loss of skills is the rule rather than the exception. In regressive autism, the skills are lost in the second year of life, while in “early onset” autism, skills are lost in the first year of life.

To deny the very children who now make up Dr. Offit's livelihood as an "autism expert" (sorry about the beverage you just snorted across your keyboard or Smart phone...) is one of Dr. Offit's more callous and disconnected statements to date. He has no concept of our children...

By Cathy Jameson

[center]When you have autism, you are born with autism. There is no changing that…”-Dr. Paul Offit [/center]

After hearing that statement, it was important to repost this piece. May it be a reminder to those who haven’t gotten the memo, and for those who refuse to read it, that yes, regressive autism does exist.

This post is dedicated to my friends’ children who have regressed into autism.

I used to love the month of April. Spring. Flowers. Sunshine. Warmth. My birthday. Yes, April was always a fun time for me. Now, I really can’t wait for it to be over. The autism “awareness” that takes over, the “new” autism numbers, the blue lights, the ridiculous autism studies that raise no alarms but blame autism yet again just Mom (or Dad’s) fault. With the 2014 numbers now 1 in 68, I’m done with April, and I’m done with “awareness”.

We have half the month to still get through though. What’s a dedicated mom to do? Scream? Give up? Give in? Walk away? A few weeks still linger in the month that now seems to take the longest to end. I have few days left to avoid the blue light special some big organization, I mean business wants to shine in my eyes blinding me with awareness while attempting to deflect the truth. Yep, I am ready to usher April right out the front door because May is around the corner. And, you know what May means? Well, actually it means nothing.

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Posted by Age of Autism at April 14, 2014

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PETITION: Please ask Paul Offit to Stop making up his own autism facts

In a recent interview with Medscape, one of your staff members, Paul Offit, MD, made the following assertion,

"When you have autism, you are born with autism. There is no changing that, and to some people, that is helpful to know."

Source: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/822981

This claim is simply not supported by the preponderance of information about autism, and denies the well-established fact that many thousands of children develop normally for a period and then regress into autism.

Offit in not an expert in autism, and if he had the typical medical education offered during his training he was taught almost nothing about autism. Yet he frequently presents himself to the media as an authority on the subject.

Offit's presentation of a theory with thin support in the medical literature as a settled fact presents in a positive light neither him nor the institutions with which he is affiliated.

Signed,

http://www.ageofautism.com/2014/04/action-alert-dr-offit-stop-making-stuff-up-about-regressive-autism.html

Action Alert: Dr. Offit, Please Stop Making Stuff Up About Regressive Autism

Note: Here is an easy to use action alert to ask Dr. Paul Offit's bosses to request that he stop making "stuff" (another word would fit well) up about autism - as a distraction for the epidemic and to protect his industry-land connections. Click HERE.

Offit: "When you have autism, you are born with autism"

Ask Offit's bosses to stop him making stuff up:

Offit promotes himself as one of America’s leading authorities on autism, even though, like most parents, he has no professional training in autism. Which may account for him saying things that have no foundation in either the medical literature, or the experience of hundreds of thousands of people. And he has several jobs at very prestigious institutions, which one would hope would value a close adherence to truth and known facts. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

If you are tired of credentialed elites with obvious conflicts of interest making up stuff about autism that conveniently supports their own financial interests please click on the Take Action link above to send an email to Offit’s bosses at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s of Hospital of Pennsylvania.

And why not give Offit’s bosses a call and ask them to ask Offit to stop making things up.

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