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- Posted by a.v.koshy on March 19, 2010 at 10:00am
"The place is India, Kerala and Karnataka, more specifically Trivandrum and Bangalore.
This is because I know the language and people in Kerala and have built up a fund of good will in Bangalore.
I want collaboration but my vision is not shared here by anyone so far as I know.
It started with my son being autistic.
While trying to help him, I came across parents and children like him and found that they needed help too as much as I and my wife did.
Help is not easily available for such kids in a place like India.
I do not think there is no one here interested in this , just that I don’t know who they are.
The problem can be stated thus – more than 160,000 are now labeled autistic.
Can this be considered a pandemic? No. But the numbers make it significant enough for vision to be needed here.
It needn't, cannot be me alone or all the great and wonderful groups and individuals working in this field that I'm in touch with.
This is everyone's chance to do a little for an underprivileged section - especially the ones in the autism spectrum who are poor too.
Autism in one's life doesn't protect one from any other of the ills that beset mankind.
They need more from society – more in terms of input in every sense of the term. I believe the appearance of autism in large numbers , a recent phenomenon, is directly connected to environment, lifestyle (medicines like vaccines and steroids and stress) and genetics. There is no one cause and since it’s a neurological disability there is no one solution ,and no seeming complete perfect cure.
They need teachers, parents who are educated, government help, spiritual and autistic and humanitarian help, social and education networks, medical networks, donors, everything else.
How does this tie in with environmental concerns – is this merely social innovation –you may wonder?
It ties up with everything.
My start may be selfish but it expands to all autistic children and adults, the differently-abled of all sorts, the caregivers and finally to two questions?
If this is a new kind of epidemic – how can it be stopped –can genetic research help? What to do with those already autistic, for a lifetime?
Obviously Hitler’s solutions are not the answer.
Can parents leading healthier lifestyles be assumed to bring forth healthy offspring?
I hope you are beginning to see the links.
Is population implosion an answer?
For such children to grow up healthy they need healthy food.
Producers and farms of this kind exist in USA.
Not in India, not many.
The food in such farms if they come up has to be green and healthy and the energy for such farms sustainable and reusable and renewable.
The food is not only for them but everyone since if they need healthy food all the surplus can go for others, especially the poor.
I know a few of the answers but don't want to spoil it by saying it.
I am thinking aloud. Please make any suggestions to improve my evoKation."
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