by Janet Kern PhD, David Geier, Mark Geier MD PhD
Gardasil victim photo above courtesy of Natural News article “Outrage.”
In a Newsweek article from 2012 entitled, “An epidemic of special needs kids heads for a crisis of care” author Michelle Cottle describes how there is a current crisis of care, particularly in autism, as children with neurodevelopmental disorders are aging out of the school system. She stated that there was a “800-pound gorilla in the room: autism” and that the “epidemic,” or “swelling population” was placing strains on our health-care, education, and social-services systems. She quoted Geraldine Dawson, with Autism Speaks, as saying, “We as a nation are not prepared.”
That was 2012 and the crisis of care continues as children with autism age out of the school system. However, the second crisis in care in autism is just starting to reveal itself.
The second crisis of care in autism will happen when the parents of these autistic children start to die.
This second crisis of care will probably be considerably worse that the first crisis of care. It remains to be seen what will happen to this vulnerable population.
The recent tragedy involving a 22 year old girl with autism in Louisiana shown in the linked video below may be providing a glimpse of things to come. In that case, this 22 year old autistic girl, reported to have the mind of a child, ended up living with distant relatives when her mother died. Sadly, these distant relatives kept her locked in a cage outside for as long as nine months. She was abused and lost about 60 pounds during her ordeal, which ended June 30, 2016 when sheriff’s deputies freed her from her captors. After being evaluated at a local hospital, she was placed in the care of the Louisiana Health Department.
The Video That Clearly illustrates What Is Really Going to Happen…
Click on the title below to see the WDSU News video, and the accompanying article about:
Caged woman forced to perform sex acts for nearly a year in Amite
22-year-old autistic woman held captive, five people arrested
Many parents of children with autism have voiced concerns about what will happen to their children after they die, worrying about who will take care of them. Parents of children with autism often voice hope that the siblings of the child with autism (if any) will take over the care after the parents are unable to care for them.
However, even the more mild cases of autism require considerable supervision or caretaking and the severe cases are difficult and trying for even the most devoted and resilient parents. Siblings of the individuals with autism may be able to take over the care when the parents die, or the individual with autism may have to go to a distant relative, as in the recent case in Louisiana. The State may become the caregiver, as it is already has custody of many of these children.
We have to keep in mind that parents of children with autism not only provide the daily care, but they also financially support the children. So, the issue is large and daunting. Already, the few institutions that are able to care for individuals with autism have very long waiting lists, up to many years.
Will the State Take Over?
It is oftentimes assumed that when the State takes over care for someone diagnosed with autism that there is residential placement readily available and capable of meeting the necessary demands of the individual. Unfortunately, all too often, there is no space available at state mental facilities. The size of state mental facilities in many cases has always been inadequate to meet the full demands of previous generations of mentally handicapped individuals, but the autism epidemic observed in the last several decades was never anticipated by these facilities.
Worse still, the space and care that is available at many of these facilities was designed to take care of individuals diagnosed with other disorders or diseases such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, Fragile X, etc. As a consequence, many facilities are ill-prepared to the massive challenges of 24 hour-a-day, 7 day-a-week care and attention required for many diagnosed with autism. Incredibly, many diagnosed with autism do not face a single deficit, disorder, or disease, but many a face a whole multitude of deficits, disorders, and diseases at the same time. These includes such serious problems as diarrhea/constipation, wetting/soiling themselves, sleep problems, eating disorders, hyperactivity, lethargy, sensory processing problems, anxiety/fear, behavioral problems, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors, and the severity of these serious problems can be life-threatening to the individual diagnosed with autism and/or those around them.
It may be necessary that an entire team of healthcare providers be continuously employed to adequately monitor care for the individual diagnosed with autism, and the costs of such a residential placement for an individual diagnosed with autism can easily exceed more than several hundred thousands of dollars per year.
It is clear that similar to the first crisis of care in autism, that we, as a nation, are not prepared for when the parents of children with autism can no longer care for them.
One way that we can begin to prepare for the second crisis of care in autism that is coming is to make this serious issue a part of the national discussion.
by Janet Kern PhD, David Geier, Mark Geier MD PhD
Usually I do articles ABOUT the Geiers and their work, including Janet Kerns. So, today, when Janet called with this article I was pleased.
As usual, this group is right on top of the problems of autism…
Even if the horror of mandated vaccination were ended tomorrow, and along with it all the other toxic assaults (such as GMOs, radiation leaks and the like) that lead to ASD, we will, as this article notes, continue to have to deal with the tragic results. Is the answer state institutions? Just hide the victims and forget about it? The same crony corporate “medicine” that gave us the autism epidemic offers no hope to the victims, just institutional “care.”
However, the good doctors, the holistic doctors who never bought into the drug/burn/toxify school of medicine, are demonstrating that these injured children (and soon, all the injured adults) can regain much normal function. Rima Laibow, MD is bringing together the many natural therapies and approaches that offer real hope. Her ebook could be completed this month, July 2016, and will be available here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/addressing-autism-ebook/
These families are cast aside in society. Thrust into the cavernous places, where we won’t disturb the normal flow of the mainstream. Our children are poisoned, their parents are shunned and forced well past pretty in an attempt to provide for the needs of their vaccine injured child. We have to fight constantly for the resources we do desperately need, but somehow, we do it. We take care of our children at whatever cost to our financial, emotional, physical, social, professional lives. Because they are OUR children and WE love them. Then all the squacking from the outside world on how much work and how much money it will take to care for our children when we finally kick the bucket… have some cheese with your whine, folks! I DO THIS ALONE, 24/7/365. There’s no TEAM. It’s just me. I’m not young anymore. My own health is failing from all the stress and abuse. I was also taking care of my husband with Leukemia until I lost him two years ago. There was no team, no village, no support, no reprieve, no break, no encouragement… but I’ve put myself on the back burner for all these years, I’ve taken nothing of this life for myself… Why? LOVE. That’s why. And to hear “the system isn’t prepared to meet the varied specialized needs of these children after their parents die”… just wow! Mind you this is the same system that poisoned them and made them incapable of functioning on their own. So, too the system, I say I HOPE YOU COME ON MY GRAVESTONE!!! How about if the system supported these families more effectively and compassionately, so fewer marriages would fail under the weight and more mothers like me who do it all by myself might have less stress and might live longer to lovingly care for our precious children… instead of society ostracizing us so we live in caves and then when we finally crumble back into the dirt, society Fortner ostracizes pour children by tucking them neatly away, out of sight, where they won’t impede the rest of society. BACKWARDS MUCH? Just a thought. (Oh, and maybe STOP poisoning our children!!!)
I apologize for my overzealous autocorrect… looks like there’s no way to edit the above… So…
I meant to type…
1. POVERTY instead of PRETTY
“Way past the point of poverty”
2. SO instead of DO
“We so desperately need”
3. CHOKE instead of COME
“I hope you choke on my gravestone”
4. FURTHER instead of FORTNER
“Society further ostracizes”
5. OUR instead of POUR
“Our children”
it is truly terrifying to think what will happen to our children when we’re gone. this is all caused by greed of pharmaceutical companies -yet the cost to society will break us – and even that won’t be enough to adequately care for the victims of their greed. hell in a bucket. i see no way out. sometimes i pray my son will die a peaceful death before me. i can’t imagine the horrors awaiting him when I’m gone.
just thought of one solution – billions upon billions of pharmas profits to fund housing and caring for our precious children. how does that sound MERCK?
PS – JIMMY KIMMEL CAN G F himself – POS.
Jimmy Camel (sarcasm) has a crossed eye himself. I’m sure due to vaccinations he got. So, lets bully him now! How it’ll going to feel?