tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post112511793361505196..comments2024-03-27T15:43:53.969-04:00Comments on Adventures in Autism: In Defense of My IreGinger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-1126198945970806822005-09-08T13:02:00.000-04:002005-09-08T13:02:00.000-04:00>>>Gold in gold salts is a neurotoxin.I'm curious ...>>>Gold in gold salts is a neurotoxin.<BR/><BR/>I'm curious where you found that information. I could find nothing online about sodium aurothiomalate being neurotoxic. Another form of "gold salts," gold chloride, is neurotoxic, but that's not the kind mentioned in the article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-1125915595070239222005-09-05T06:19:00.000-04:002005-09-05T06:19:00.000-04:00Ginger, a belated thanks for your detailed respons...Ginger, a belated thanks for your detailed response to and kind words about my essay. Your account of your professional training, and your desire to fully document all aspects of the condition of someone who comes to you for help, shows how far clinical training has advanced in the fifty years that passed between Kanner’s self-education and your university education. (That is, although he had a conventional European medical education, he was self-educated in the then-fairly-new field of psychiatry.)<BR/><BR/>I look at Dr. Kanner as a man of his time, who had far less information then than we do now on which to base his speculations and conclusions about his patients. All the same, he did a better job than many of his contemporaries in avoiding holding parents morally culpable for their children’s difficulties.<BR/><BR/>Thanks especially for your kind words about the efforts of “the neurodiversity community.” It means a whole heck of a lot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-1125120402152297522005-08-27T01:26:00.000-04:002005-08-27T01:26:00.000-04:00Ginger, You haven't read Dr Kanner's paper. I ha...Ginger, <BR/><BR/>You haven't read Dr Kanner's paper. I have, Kathleen has. I'm glad that you were not upset at Kathleen and that you are trying to be rational. <BR/><BR/>BUT even if you had read Dr. Kanner's 1971 paper that was a follow up... for crying out loud do you not know the difference between a paper that tries to condense a stack of files and the files themselves?<BR/><BR/>You have no idea how throrough he was, but you take the word of that idiot Dan Olmsted.<BR/><BR/>If Donald's brother gave him permission, why on earth would he have not said, "oh, my brother called and said I could talk to you." <BR/><BR/>Or, "wait a minute while I call my brother Donald and ask him if it's ok to talk to you."<BR/><BR/>Olmsted should know if his brother had permision, but he hasn't defended himself with that. Kathleen asked him about the ethics of what he did, and he never said, "But Donald told his brother is was ok."<BR/><BR/>According to a commenter on the Autism Diva blog, the reason gold salts work on arthritis is that they do damage to nerves.<BR/><BR/>Because,<BR/><BR/>Gold in gold salts is a neurotoxin. Now isn't that interesting?<BR/><BR/>People who know nothing about medicine have no right to go speculating on things as arcane as this.<BR/>Parents started to find sources for gold salts based on his stupid articles. When will this ridiculous behavior stop? When a child is killed.<BR/><BR/>No, apparently that doesn't do it. You are still speculating about what might cure autism instead of sticking with what is known and well proven about autism. I can't stand it. I know you are a nice person at heart, but the ridiculous mercury thinking has to stop now, before another child dies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com