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Is the prevalence of difficult child new or just diagnosed more?
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<blockquote data-quote="artana" data-source="post: 233760" data-attributes="member: 6186"><p>Lovemychocolate,</p><p> I have to agree that it's a combination. On looking at my difficult child, my brother has similar symptoms, I have similar milder symptoms, and my father does too. There was no diagnosis of Aspeger's when I was little or when my father was little. My father has a hard time socializing, doesn't know how to express feelings very well, was always extremely clumsy with how he treated others. My brother has a temper that he keeps very reigned in, but he has to control his environment to be able to cope. My son has the temper and the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), but he's mild like all of us. He has the ability to learn the coping skills, though, and he has a lot more support. So, I can see the genetic trends and state that it was not environmental. My younger son has the exact same issues as his dad, and he has not lived with him since he was 3.</p><p> </p><p>The environmental factor is an odd thing, because we have some nasty stuff, but there was nasty stuff before. I think we romanticize previous eras, but we need to be careful what we consider pointing the finger at. For instance, people blame mercury for the rise in autism, but a little before I was born, kids used to play with mercury in school. We didn't find out it was a poison until later. So...why wasn't there a huge rate of autism then?</p><p> </p><p>Fifty years ago, if you waited for a train, you stood in a cloud of black smoke from the coal. Cars had horrible emissions. The pesticides used to be sprayed along streets right onto children. We have our own modern share of toxins, but I don't know if I would say they are worse or better or what. I think that going back to more organic foods for several weeks would let parents see clearly if food toxins have anything to do with the behaviors, but it would be difficult to account for environmental toxins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="artana, post: 233760, member: 6186"] Lovemychocolate, I have to agree that it's a combination. On looking at my difficult child, my brother has similar symptoms, I have similar milder symptoms, and my father does too. There was no diagnosis of Aspeger's when I was little or when my father was little. My father has a hard time socializing, doesn't know how to express feelings very well, was always extremely clumsy with how he treated others. My brother has a temper that he keeps very reigned in, but he has to control his environment to be able to cope. My son has the temper and the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), but he's mild like all of us. He has the ability to learn the coping skills, though, and he has a lot more support. So, I can see the genetic trends and state that it was not environmental. My younger son has the exact same issues as his dad, and he has not lived with him since he was 3. The environmental factor is an odd thing, because we have some nasty stuff, but there was nasty stuff before. I think we romanticize previous eras, but we need to be careful what we consider pointing the finger at. For instance, people blame mercury for the rise in autism, but a little before I was born, kids used to play with mercury in school. We didn't find out it was a poison until later. So...why wasn't there a huge rate of autism then? Fifty years ago, if you waited for a train, you stood in a cloud of black smoke from the coal. Cars had horrible emissions. The pesticides used to be sprayed along streets right onto children. We have our own modern share of toxins, but I don't know if I would say they are worse or better or what. I think that going back to more organic foods for several weeks would let parents see clearly if food toxins have anything to do with the behaviors, but it would be difficult to account for environmental toxins. [/QUOTE]
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