[Magdalen] [Magdale

[Don]

Agreed re tendency to blame.

The preventative vaccines and ameliorative treatments came out after I'd already had the childhood diseases, so I had measles, mumps, rubella (aka German measles), Bangs' disease (acquired by drinking raw - unpasteurized - milk from infected cows, and in my case misdiagnosis and treated as tuberculosis), chicken pox (a stage of herpes viral infection).  Missed second grade altogether - TB treatment was bed rest and isolation in a dark room.   This was all during WW2.

My father, an undiagnosed depressive, believed that my illnesses were God's punishment for his sins.

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On May 31, 2019 7:45 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Also human beings (westerners, at least) seem to have a great need to 
> assign blame. 
> It's a sort of slide to the left from Reason, with misapplication of 
> scientific thought. 
> Very Puritanical, if you think about it. 
> It makes us judgmental and litigious and just gets in the way. 
>
> I've talked with patients who *insist* that doctors really know how to cure 
> cancer 
> but only make the magical treatment available to a few friends and "elites" 
> (for fear they'll do themselves out of their jobs and careers). 
>
> I've said this before, but I remember having measles. 
> I was seven, I think. 
> It was awful. 
> -M 
>
>
>
> On Friday, May 31, 2019, Don <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote: 
>
> > "We just don't know" is hard to accept, and it isn't surprising that 
> > absent certainty about causes people cling to hypotheses about cause that 
> > are unproven or disproven.  At best, autism "treatment" addresses 
> > behavioral manifestations but not the poorly understood autism spectrum 
> > disorders themselves. 
> > 
> >