Autism - Infants on Drugs?

Autism, although extremely common now (1 in 300-500 children are affected by it, and the frequency is increasing), is still not given enough attention, and is still not properly understood by most people. To most people, Autism is just a mental disorder or that is genetic, when in fact, it is neither. While genes play a role in its occurrence, autism is not a direct result of a genetic malfunction at all. If is actually proper to compare autism in small child to opium addiction in adults (this will make sense very soon).

Some of the most commonly observed symptoms of autism in small children are:

They seem lost in their own world and cannot seem to focus.

They don't recognize anyone, including their parents and siblings.

They restrict themselves in terms of diet to dairy and wheat based foods.

Children with autism get irritable and sensitive to touch.

Many children with autism drag their forehead on the floor.

Autistic children lag in studies and don't seem to want to do anything at all.

Autism results in repetitive action like filling and emptying a cup over and over, or opening and and closing a door over and over or something similar.

The fact that autism has so long gone more or less unnoticed by the medical world while they're trying to treat AIDS and cancer instead of teaching people to abstain and to quit smoking is appalling. However, a closer observation reveals that these are very similar actions and attitudes that people on LSD, opium and some other addictive substances adopt. This led to a research where opiates were discovered in the urine of children with autism. This was obviously surprising because these kids were not being fed opium in any quantity what so ever.

What we know for sure now is that certain genetic disparities lead to a lack of certain enzymes that are required to process the peptides from dairy products into digestible molecules. Since children with autism can't process the dairy, it changes into opiates. The second question is how these substances then reach the blood stream. In almost every case of autism, the symptoms don't show until 12 to 15^th month. This is when the basic MMR vaccine is administered. The MMR vaccine can damage the small intestine in some children with autism because they lack the protein required to re-enforce the lining of the intestines.

The most probable hypothesis, therefore, is as follows:

Children with autism are unable to build certain proteins and can't process certain peptides. The lack of these proteins results in weaker small intestine lining that is damaged by the MMR vaccine (this also would explain the relative absence of autism from the third world and developing nations where the vaccine is not available in the same numbers). This allows the opiates to enter the blood stream resulting in autistic behavior that is similar to the behavior of an adult on these drugs.

So what can one do to battle autism once they're armed with this knowledge? The research is still out on that, although the preliminary results have been released and the dairy connection is firmly established, along with the role of gluten (from wheat products). This also explains why children with autism self-restrict themselves to a diet of wheat and dairy based products - they are, just like the adults, addicted! So the first, and probably the most important thing is to make the necessary dietary changes and see if the autism is diet related.

Hopefully, this will help come up with alternate diets and other solutions to the problem of autism!