Archive for autism
Religion, Assimilation, Vaccination
According to this story, an outbreak of mumps has occurred in counties just north of New York City, mostly in Orthodox (or Hasidic) Jewish communities, where parents routinely seek religious exemptions to vaccination requirements for their children. In total, about 1,000 kids (mostly adolescents) have been afflicted.
When I was a kid, we all came down [...]
Progress Forgotten
Here’s a description of a deadly disorder that once afflicted children:
“At first children undergo subtle personality changes, their handwriting deteriorates, and they seem to forget things. Later, when the horror of the disease fully emerges, children are progressively less able to walk, stand, or talk; then they become combative, have seizures, lapse into a coma, [...]