When ever I used to get scratches or grazes or cuts as a kid, my parents would (unknowingly at the time) joke about “put some dirt on it and you’ll be fine.” So I would (without them knowing) and hey I’m still alive, nothings been chopped off due to infectionsPartly the sterile environment everyone wants to live in these days. Kids never allowed to get a bit of **** on their hands without a sanitised wipe being drawn from mum's emergency medi kit that she takes everywhere because god forbid little Johnny might graze his knee, get an infection and need his leg amputated. Kids don't get out anywhere near enough these days. Most of my generation had an allergy at one time or another but you grow out of it. Now you never get to taste the forbidden fruit again.
Overuse of antibiotics has rendered them useless to many people, only because doctors are often too weak to tell people NO, you don't need antibiotics, you have a cold ffs.
I don't think the farmers are too much to blame with much of this though they have certainly played their part with insecticides, steroids and the sort but the processed foods and the crap that goes into it these days is frightening.
The way our (fresh) food is kept cold store for months so we can keep the public fed with seasonal fruit/veg out of season. Hence its always so bland.
If you are about to get flamed cement I will probably be going to hell lol
It isn't that the doctors are too weak. It is more to do with the golfing holidays etc. that the pharmaceutical industry ply them with.Partly the sterile environment everyone wants to live in these days. Kids never allowed to get a bit of **** on their hands without a sanitised wipe being drawn from mum's emergency medi kit that she takes everywhere because god forbid little Johnny might graze his knee, get an infection and need his leg amputated. Kids don't get out anywhere near enough these days. Most of my generation had an allergy at one time or another but you grow out of it. Now you never get to taste the forbidden fruit again.
Overuse of antibiotics has rendered them useless to many people, only because doctors are often too weak to tell people NO, you don't need antibiotics, you have a cold ffs.
I don't think the farmers are too much to blame with much of this though they have certainly played their part with insecticides, steroids and the sort but the processed foods and the crap that goes into it these days is frightening.
The way our (fresh) food is kept cold store for months so we can keep the public fed with seasonal fruit/veg out of season. Hence its always so bland.
If you are about to get flamed cement I will probably be going to hell lol
The special classes for autism kids are virtually non-existent, they are thrown in with normal classes at the detriment to the 30 odd other kids education.
I wonder if she was vaccinated as a young child though
It's the so-called normal children who appear to go to great lengths to make life at school a living hell just because they're different.
Are you serious Oshkii?What a ridiculous and unfounded broad sweeping statement. Have you ever met a child that has been diagnosed with autism or Asperger's Syndrome? They generally just want to keep their heads down, be left alone, and learn in peace. It's the so-called normal children who appear to go to great lengths to make life at school a living hell just because they're different. If anything, it's the "normal" children who are a detriment to their education. They never asked to be segregated by both teachers and students. They never asked to be negatively labelled and treated differently.
This all has absolutely nothing to with reptiles or wasps. Why are you even discussing this?
Are you serious Oshkii?
I am talking from experience, I have three kids at school and each one of them have kids in their class on the autism spectrum that disrupt class activities on a daily basis. There are varying levels of autism and not all of them 'keep their heads down' as you say. There are the ones that keep their heads down and are not a threat, then there is then other end of the scale where they have a propensity for violent behaviour without any emotional thought and no feelings of regret or sorrow. Then there are the ones closer to the middle who have a propensity for violence but have an emotional reaction afterward which causes them to feel regret and sorrow for their actions. There are also many combinations of the above in between.
The issues I see with kids these day are ten even twenty fold what they were thirty years ago.
My children have a right to an uninterrupted education and so do the other ninety kids in their three classes and I refuse to tow the PC line just to make the few that cause the issues happy.
The kids I am talking about have been assessed and are on the spectrum, they are not just badly behaved children. I also want to point out that I wasn't attacking autistic people with my posts I was merely pointing out that the specialised autism classes are virtually non-existent, which does effect the whole class of kids without autism. This is the fault of schools who are underfunded to begin with and are paid extra funding for children with disablities. It is also the fault of the parents of the autistic children who are constantly contacted to come to the school to deal with events that happen and refuse to do the right thing for both their child and the other children in the class by finding an alternative education facility.Speaking from personal experience:
Parents these days don't want anyone to say "no" to their precious baby. I've been verbally assaulted by mothers whos children i told "no, you cant pet my dog". It's absolutely insane that parents now refuse to say no- and as a result children are growing up with no boundaries and no rules. I was taught to be respectful of other people- I was taught how I should behave in public. Toddlers and young children really get on my nerves in public- the screaming, crying, begging... if i had done that i would have had my butt kicked or left at home.
In the case of children with autism, the children don't understand normal social cues- they won't see many things such as facial expression/body language as important and as a result they do miss out on a huge amount of information that the world outputs. They very often need to be told step-by-step what is appropriate behaviour and what is not.
Combine that with "yes" parents, you end up with a kid who knows no boundaries and no rules. They don't understand what they're doing in inappropriate- and when the kids do get old enough and big enough that they do become a serious problem it is a much harder task to essentially 'retrain' them.
I feel things like autism, adhd, add, ect are just so overdiagnosed. Parents want something to explain why their 'precious angel' isn't perfectly well behaved. Parents need an excuse as to why they failed their job of raising a kid who will fit into society.
I recently saw a kid whos parents claimed he had Tourettes. I'm no expert, but all this kid did was swear very maliciously at his parents and other people. I know swearing can be a tic, but it was evident his so called 'tics' were very intentional. If you've ever met someone with tourettes, you'll know its generally very easy to tell a 'tic' from normal speech. This kid just had a serious potty mouth and his parents needed something to tell other people.
And as for the original matter...
I don't think the rates of allergies has gone up all that much. People are living longer, more people are having kids and there is obviously a much larger population.
1/100 people having an allergy doesnt sound so bad. 1000/1000000 sounds much worse simply because now 1000 people have an allergy. But both represent only 1% of a population...
The kids I am talking about have been assessed and are on the spectrum, they are not just badly behaved children. I also want to point out that I wasn't attacking autistic people with my posts I was merely pointing out that the specialised autism classes are virtually non-existent, which does effect the whole class of kids without autism. This is the fault of schools who are underfunded to begin with and are paid extra funding for children with disablities. It is also the fault of the parents of the autistic children who are constantly contacted to come to the school to deal with events that happen and refuse to do the right thing for both their child and the other children in the class by finding an alternative education facility.
Because of the fact that the child has a disability, the school won't expel for fear of litigaton and also because of the funding they will lose.
Are you serious Oshkii?
I am talking from experience, I have three kids at school and each one of them have kids in their class on the autism spectrum that disrupt class activities on a daily basis. There are varying levels of autism and not all of them 'keep their heads down' as you say. There are the ones that keep their heads down and are not a threat, then there is then other end of the scale where they have a propensity for violent behaviour without any emotional thought and no feelings of regret or sorrow. Then there are the ones closer to the middle who have a propensity for violence but have an emotional reaction afterward which causes them to feel regret and sorrow for their actions. There are also many combinations of the above in between.
The issues I see with kids these day are ten even twenty fold what they were thirty years ago.
My children have a right to an uninterrupted education and so do the other ninety kids in their three classes and I refuse to tow the PC line just to make the few that cause the issues happy.
It's not too different from us reptile lovers trying to convey that snakes are not the so-called spawn of Satan, and yet, people just don't understand, or simply choose not to.
All good Kayla, it is a sensitive situation so I do understand your reaction. One point I do want to make is that the autism spectrum is very broad and includes autism of varying degrees from acute to severe, because of this you can't use blanket statements about the reasons for aggression etc. as there are some on the lower end of the scale that most definitely know what they are doing, when they are doing it.My apologies for the outburst, Scutellatus. It sounds as though either the school or parents have poorly managed the situation. I can see why you might be concerned. I'd like to point out that no autistic child is aggressive for the sake of it, however. It often stems from frustration due to a lack of understanding and communication. Imagine being trapped in a world where you don't understand others, try as you might, and in turn not being able to communicate your own feelings and intentions. It's not too different from us reptile lovers trying to convey that snakes are not the so-called spawn of Satan, and yet, people just don't understand, or simply choose not to.
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