He's not trolling you, Cathedral. Perhaps with your current feelings from this recent experience it may seem that way, but he's not.
It's a genuinely-held viewpoint by many with cases to back it. Consider this article as well:
http://research-chelation-therapy.c...apy/parents-credit-chelation-with-autism-cure
Consider for a moment the environment we are raised in these days. Air in the metro areas is frequently the equivelant of several packs of cigarettes per day. Our water is treated, in the name of dental health, with a chemical that the Russians once used (very effectively) to keep Prisoners of War docile and slow. Our vegetables are modified genetically and our meats come from filthy, unhealthy conditions. And everything, everywhere, is loaded with sugar, sugar, and high fructose corn syrup (sugar); don't forget the healthy heaping of food dyes which are nothing more than by-products of industrial metals processing.
Most large water sources, as well as the air to some extent, are contaminated with toxic heavy metals.
None of this is good for our health.
I work in the healthcare industry in one of the United States' most progressive EMS (emergency medical services) systems. It is absolutely necessary (and reasonable) that Medicine be consistently
questioned by it's recipients, just as a government must
constantly be questioned by it's constituents. These principles are common sense, lost in our time of laziness, weakness, convenience, and irresponsibility; the age of "Don't worry, let us take care of you, everything is fine".
We administer drugs in the field that do some scary honeysuckle in the name of saving lives. Rocuronium and succinylcholine are paralytics, administered prior to intubation. They lock every muscle in the body within a couple of minutes, and ultimately the patient stops breathing because we need to take over their respirations. Then we shove a tube down their throat with an inflatable balloon seal which may or may not cause an injury that will kill them anyways (usually it doesn't). They are awake for all of it; after dosing, their heart rate will climb due to both ceased respirations and incredible fear. Luckily for them, we administer Verced, specifically so they will not remember the incident and everything will be a blur. Another drug administered, 50% Dextrose, is life saving for diabetic emergencies as long as the IV line used is secure in the vein; infiltration of that much sugar in to the surrounding tissues has cost some people their arms. (It's also ironic that most cases of diabetes are caused by obesity and, consequently, an over-abundant intake of sugar). Medicine does not always get it right, otherwise the IV would
always be secure, and the Paramedic would
never administer it otherwise.
Consider the field of optometry, as an excellent example of the capability our modern medical establishment has to cripple people. Ask a doctor what the cure is for bad eyesight, and he will tell you the only treatment is corrective lenses or surgery. Don't ask him about the hundreds, maybe thousands, who have corrected their eyesight from dismal condition to being able to read street signs again, some even having gone past 20/20. There have been only a few doctors to champion the recovery routines that accomplish this, though the ones who have have provided enough literature that people are able to
do it for themselves. I have talked to them, and I have even experienced temporary improvement for myself. Perhaps the only reason I am not free of my own lenses is that I lack the will to commit to the routines, and it's not exactly convenient in my current living arrangements. But it cannot be denied that it has worked.
Do I think some cases of autism are perhaps congenital and/or genetic? Yes. The process of our formation as lifeforms is incredibly complex and there are mistakes every now and then in the programming. But there has to be a reason for the increase in diagnosis, and I don't think it is fair to yourself to rule out that perhaps there is a cure outside of the medical establishment.
After all, how many kids were prescribed ritalin for ADD that they didn't have during my generation? Millions. It was, quite literally, just a racket to sell prescriptions. Not a mirror-image of your situation, but a similar concept.
