I think what you are all discussing Asperger’s/Aspies. Autism without intellectual impairment. What you are, Michelle. What do you call someone with anxiety, sensory disorder, auditory processing disorder, stemming, speech delay but with intellectual impairment IQ borderline mentally retardation and lower IQs. I don’t ever see them on podcasts, writing articles, attending college, speaking as eloquently as you do along with your vocabulary. I forgot to include the severe gastrointestinal problems that accompanies many individuals that are considered autism. I’m very interested because my 30 year old daughter is nothing like you. She can’t look at code, edit manuscripts or go to college. What is she called? What about injecting aluminum into your bloodstream? Classic autism is temple Grandin PHD and you. What about my daughter who has regressive autism? I wasn’t a refrigerator mother as you seem to suggest plays a role in causing autism which is basically 5 or more neurological disorders. Do you have anything that supports your opinion? Or is just that, your opinion?
Wayne Mccroy has some disturbing insights into the narrative you are
pushing in his books. Autism and robotics and aluminum..
Or maybe I completely misunderstand.
If someone can’t take care of themselves and live independently as my daughter, then how can they take care of a child? What percentage of people with autism not Asperger’s, are married and have children? Can you provide any evidence?
Thanks for your questions. They are very on point.
I actually was a classic autistic child. I stimmed, rocked, head-bumped, eschewed interaction with people, didn't like to be touched, had chronic headaches, tummy aches and spoke late. I had "lack of affect" and couldn't stand to see or touch a broken toy.
My parents were pressured to have me institutionalised at 5. Instead we moved to the country. I was held back from starting school but when I did go, it was to a one room school with 3 grades and 6 students.
My mother used to say that I "didn't want to be here"--she meant my reincarnted soul. She had some New Age beliefs. But I did feel that way. Everything was too painful and difficult. I would "come out", it would be painful, and I would "withdraw'. She said that changed when I was 14.
We had moved down to the city and it was horrible. I wanted to get out so I began to train myself to do difficult things. I started taking cold showers. I volunteered to go door to door to collect the money for my sister's newspaper route. I auditioned for school plays. I joined the AV club and volunteered to do tech support at events. I volunteered at the local church carnival thingy. I forced myself to socialise during lunch and take the bus by myself. I started reading the newspaper and choosing opinions for myself.
It was awful lol. And very hard. I collapsed when I was 20 and went back into a non-verbal autistic state for a few months. That was the worst relapse but it happened again when I was in college, and every time I tried to work full time. After about 18 months I'd get kind of delirious and feverish. Narcoleptic. And couldn't work.
You don't want to see my resume lol!
And I still have some deficits of course. I can become disoriented in an unfamiliar, noisy place--that's a classic. And sometimes I can't write at all. I am a very slow writer and I often get meaning-blindness--I can't tell what I've said. I very easily lose myself--where I'm at, what I'm supposed to be doing, what I was just doing. "Weak central cohesion" is what they call it.
All that being said, I don't believe that I was vaccine injured, though I'm quite sure that the jabs are poisonous and that kids are being injured--but more on that later.
I do have an Attachment Disorder. An Attachment Disorder is not the result of a Refrigerator Mother. Attachment Disorders are caused by medicalised interference at birth. Interference in the period directly after birth when both the mother and the baby are flooded with endorphins--that is the falling-in-love bliss-out chemical.
That there is meant to be a mother/infant bond is hardly even recognised in our culture. Think of it like a duckling that imprints with whatever it first encounters when it hatches but with hearts connecting? A ducking that imprints with a football is going to be a weird kind of duck.
And there is a cascade of consequences for the mother and the child when there is a failure to bond just like for the duckling. One of those consequences is atypical brain development.
That is Part One. I'll continue this tomorrow. Hope this helps.
I'll add more later, but just briefly, the high/low functioning divide between autism and Asperger's is a false one. Autists tend to be more or less functioning depending on circumstances. Also, non-verbal autists can have unrecognised high intelligence, as was the case with Tito Mukhopadhyay, Carly Fleischmann and Keli Thorsteinsson etc.
Keli, after working for an hour with Soma Mukhopadhyay doing rapid prompting, asked if he could be taught to play the piano because he has music going through his head all the time. He had been diagnosed with extreme mental impairment.
Also autists tend to be late bloomers. There have been cases of non-verbal autists starting to speak in their 40's and 50's.
Autistic Donna Williams, who trained people to work with severe non-verbal autistics, advised to "Always presume intelligence" and I think that's right.
What non-autists don't realise is that it can be overwhelming just to be in the same room as another person.
I'll get into why that might be later. Got to go tend to the goats.
So brain imaging studies from about 10 years ago showed that when a person is listening to another person speaking, the parts of the brain that are active in the speaker get activated in the listener. That's attunement.
That is what is supposed to happen between a mother and her infant reinforced by the endorphin flush that occurs when nursing and mother/child gazing.
The neuroscientist VS Ramachandran has suggested that that is how culture gets transmitted. It's like the installation of an operating system. Inherent in the transmission are limitations. That's an important detail.
For the first months of life, a baby's brain is a neuron factory. Every experience, taste, finger wiggle etc is adding new neurons. At around 18 months, a neurotypical infant will go through a phase of neural pruning. Neurons that have not been reinforced by repetition get reabsorbed. That doesn't happen in autistics which can be a problem--the fast growing brain meets the limits of the slow-growing skull. That is when the regression in regressive autism can occur. The brains of autistics tend to be ~10% larger than neurotypicals.
So what is it like to have no operating system and too many neurons firing in your brain? Everything is perceived in a big noisy jumble. They call it sensory dysregulation. What to pay attention too? Everything is coming in at the same volume.
That's where stimming comes in. Stimming changes the orientation of the brain from observing (or perceiving) to acting. It has to do with suppression of mu waves. But anyway, it's a practical self-regulatory practice, stimming. It turns the wide open perceptual receiver and the volume down.
Despite what you've been told, most autistics tend to improve over time with no intervention at all. Autism used to be classified as a childhood condition because it was recognised that most autistic children grow out of it by puberty. But yes, a small percentage continued with severe impairments--around 6%.
Now it's really hard to know the numbers because, for one thing, the diagnostic criteria for autism was changed so that technically kids with Downs or Rhetts are classified as "Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified" a subset of autism. The other thing is that a law was passed in the US that made a requirement of an autism diagnosis in order to access Special Education. Ergo, an autism diagnosis nowadays does not necessarily mean autism. I think this is where they are hiding the vax injured kids. Because of Wakefield and the antivax "nutters" like Jenny McCarthy, the "science is settled"--vaccines don't cause autism. Which, they don't.
There used to be a diagnosis of Post-immunization encephalopathy: "This may follow inoculation with serum, particularly anti-tetanus serum, or vaccines such as smallpox, rabies, and typhoid."
That's from the DSM 2. It was removed and does not appear in the DSM 3, 4 and 5.
I'll answer some of your direct questions and share with you some of the things that helped me.
"What do you call someone with anxiety, sensory disorder, auditory processing disorder, stemming, speech delay but with intellectual impairment IQ borderline mentally retardation and lower IQs."
It could be an encephalopathic brain injury, or it could be autism. Autistics have some characteristic behaviors, like stimming. Another is categorising/systematising behavior. Perseveration. If you read Kanner's original study you will find more. It's available online.
"I don’t ever see them on podcasts, writing articles, attending college, speaking as eloquently as you do along with your vocabulary." I used to follow three non-verbal women who blogged about autism who were in a care home. They were very open about their impairments. One was incontinent. None could care for themselves. They were highly intelligent. There was a period of harassment of pos-aut bloggers and I lost track of them then. But they aren't the only ones. Michelle Dawson has some severe impairments, can't cook for herself for instance. You can listen to her being interviewed here: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/michelle-dawson/
"I forgot to include the severe gastrointestinal problems that accompanies many individuals that are considered autism."
Anxiety is dynamite for digestion. Anxiety keeps the body in fight or flight mode, which means blood circulation is prioritised for the limbs and running. No blood picking up nutrients in the intestines. Digestive juices don't flow. The body is not receptive to ingestion.
There may be cravings for foods that are sedating and over-eating. Nicotine is a neurotoxin that deadens the nerves. I smoked for years and it did help with my anxiety. I had severe anxiety into my 30's and still have anxiety in unfamiliar situations.
"I’m very interested because my 30 year old daughter is nothing like you. She can’t look at code, edit manuscripts or go to college. What is she called?"
I would say that I have been very lucky. By growing up in a rural area, and attending a tiny school, I was free of a lot of social pressure. Being able to play in our forested back yard was very helpful. I had an older sister who was very outgoing and she was happy to bring me along with her. She was a great shield by doing all the talking and hogging all the attention--the last thing I wanted ever was attention. My mother used to say "Leave her alone, she'll be alright."
I was accommodated in certain ways, supported, but not interfered with. But I still had to do chores and have good table manners, like my sibs.
"What about injecting aluminum into your bloodstream?"
Yes, that's the new one. For Bernard Rimland it was mercury. That was in 1964. Andrew Wakefield's hypothesis was that the live measles virus from the MMR vaccine burrowed into the intestinal lining which caused leakiness which caused encephalopathic brain injury. His study was very shoddy and was inconclusive. I don't think that anyone should be jabbed, period.
BTW, Rimland was a high level Naval research psychologist who had a particular interest in savantism. Wakefield's patent partner was a top-level UN epidemiologist with a particular interest in biomedical policy and increasing funding through PR efforts.
"Classic autism is temple Grandin PHD and you."
Temple was a poo smearer. She attributes her success to early ABA therapy. Also, she innovated a squeeze machine--have you read about that? I used heavy blankets myself. Very calming.
"If someone can’t take care of themselves and live independently as my daughter, then how can they take care of a child?"
I wouldn't have been able to care for a child. But I am married. He's also autistic.
"What percentage of people with autism not Asperger’s, are married and have children?"
According to the 1990 diagnostic criteria for autism or the present day one? You could go on to one of the autism forums and ask people. Wrong Planet has a dating sub forum. Though assuming that autistics want to get married is bit hmmm? Some autistics only want to pursue their special interest and find relationships a bother.
This is a very interesting . Michelle has done much more research into autism than I have, so I won't attempt to answer any of your specific questions (I will make sure Michelle is aware of the comment.) The question that I keep coming back to is: can autism be purely defined? (I don't know the answer to this.) I have the sense that many things, in the US, these days are being called "autism" for the sake of forms/medical-billing/IEP's, etc. It is Michelle's point of view (as I understand it) that the type of regression/neurological-injury that can happen after vaccination is real, but not autism (though it is called autism.) Sometimes I think this is a matter of semantics. Do you have any thoughts about this?
I'd like to hear more about the autism paradigms. So much to pattern and create about over the past four years . Instinctively felt some affinity with neurodiverse dimensions (ADD/Schizoid/Autistic), but have allowed the corporate and pathological/medicalised constructions of them to flatten my curiosity. The Power-Threat-Meaning paradigm offers something, but there's room for more adventure and constellating. The injections/autism question is weird... Wakefield's court case...odd... I wonder whether the experimental injections are neuro-divergent psychoactives (and the same with atmospheric aerosols)? Positive and negatives ahead. Really engaging talk.
MH here. I can answer specific questions if you like?
Meanwhile, here's what I think is a major component that most people are unaware of; that a certain powerful sci-fi organisation got involved very early on in promoting an autism/vax link. Thereafter they promoted their own raft of "biomedical" treatments including chelation to remove Mercury and heavy metals.
The medical condition that back-ended their model of brain-injury-from-vax was Minimata disease (which maybe possibly made some sense for vaxes that contained thermisol, but they are very far out from there now) but their mission was always to popularise detoxing.
As well as making $$. This organisation is a major covert player in the alt health marketplace and Health Freedom Movement.
Another incentive for them is simply recruitment.
RFK has a little known but strong associations with this group and Wakefield has a more recent association. Mike Adams is another.
I think what you are all discussing Asperger’s/Aspies. Autism without intellectual impairment. What you are, Michelle. What do you call someone with anxiety, sensory disorder, auditory processing disorder, stemming, speech delay but with intellectual impairment IQ borderline mentally retardation and lower IQs. I don’t ever see them on podcasts, writing articles, attending college, speaking as eloquently as you do along with your vocabulary. I forgot to include the severe gastrointestinal problems that accompanies many individuals that are considered autism. I’m very interested because my 30 year old daughter is nothing like you. She can’t look at code, edit manuscripts or go to college. What is she called? What about injecting aluminum into your bloodstream? Classic autism is temple Grandin PHD and you. What about my daughter who has regressive autism? I wasn’t a refrigerator mother as you seem to suggest plays a role in causing autism which is basically 5 or more neurological disorders. Do you have anything that supports your opinion? Or is just that, your opinion?
Wayne Mccroy has some disturbing insights into the narrative you are
pushing in his books. Autism and robotics and aluminum..
Or maybe I completely misunderstand.
If someone can’t take care of themselves and live independently as my daughter, then how can they take care of a child? What percentage of people with autism not Asperger’s, are married and have children? Can you provide any evidence?
Maybe the autistic brain can train AI?
Thanks for your questions. They are very on point.
I actually was a classic autistic child. I stimmed, rocked, head-bumped, eschewed interaction with people, didn't like to be touched, had chronic headaches, tummy aches and spoke late. I had "lack of affect" and couldn't stand to see or touch a broken toy.
My parents were pressured to have me institutionalised at 5. Instead we moved to the country. I was held back from starting school but when I did go, it was to a one room school with 3 grades and 6 students.
My mother used to say that I "didn't want to be here"--she meant my reincarnted soul. She had some New Age beliefs. But I did feel that way. Everything was too painful and difficult. I would "come out", it would be painful, and I would "withdraw'. She said that changed when I was 14.
We had moved down to the city and it was horrible. I wanted to get out so I began to train myself to do difficult things. I started taking cold showers. I volunteered to go door to door to collect the money for my sister's newspaper route. I auditioned for school plays. I joined the AV club and volunteered to do tech support at events. I volunteered at the local church carnival thingy. I forced myself to socialise during lunch and take the bus by myself. I started reading the newspaper and choosing opinions for myself.
It was awful lol. And very hard. I collapsed when I was 20 and went back into a non-verbal autistic state for a few months. That was the worst relapse but it happened again when I was in college, and every time I tried to work full time. After about 18 months I'd get kind of delirious and feverish. Narcoleptic. And couldn't work.
You don't want to see my resume lol!
And I still have some deficits of course. I can become disoriented in an unfamiliar, noisy place--that's a classic. And sometimes I can't write at all. I am a very slow writer and I often get meaning-blindness--I can't tell what I've said. I very easily lose myself--where I'm at, what I'm supposed to be doing, what I was just doing. "Weak central cohesion" is what they call it.
All that being said, I don't believe that I was vaccine injured, though I'm quite sure that the jabs are poisonous and that kids are being injured--but more on that later.
I do have an Attachment Disorder. An Attachment Disorder is not the result of a Refrigerator Mother. Attachment Disorders are caused by medicalised interference at birth. Interference in the period directly after birth when both the mother and the baby are flooded with endorphins--that is the falling-in-love bliss-out chemical.
That there is meant to be a mother/infant bond is hardly even recognised in our culture. Think of it like a duckling that imprints with whatever it first encounters when it hatches but with hearts connecting? A ducking that imprints with a football is going to be a weird kind of duck.
And there is a cascade of consequences for the mother and the child when there is a failure to bond just like for the duckling. One of those consequences is atypical brain development.
That is Part One. I'll continue this tomorrow. Hope this helps.
I'll add more later, but just briefly, the high/low functioning divide between autism and Asperger's is a false one. Autists tend to be more or less functioning depending on circumstances. Also, non-verbal autists can have unrecognised high intelligence, as was the case with Tito Mukhopadhyay, Carly Fleischmann and Keli Thorsteinsson etc.
Keli, after working for an hour with Soma Mukhopadhyay doing rapid prompting, asked if he could be taught to play the piano because he has music going through his head all the time. He had been diagnosed with extreme mental impairment.
Also autists tend to be late bloomers. There have been cases of non-verbal autists starting to speak in their 40's and 50's.
Autistic Donna Williams, who trained people to work with severe non-verbal autistics, advised to "Always presume intelligence" and I think that's right.
What non-autists don't realise is that it can be overwhelming just to be in the same room as another person.
I'll get into why that might be later. Got to go tend to the goats.
So brain imaging studies from about 10 years ago showed that when a person is listening to another person speaking, the parts of the brain that are active in the speaker get activated in the listener. That's attunement.
That is what is supposed to happen between a mother and her infant reinforced by the endorphin flush that occurs when nursing and mother/child gazing.
The neuroscientist VS Ramachandran has suggested that that is how culture gets transmitted. It's like the installation of an operating system. Inherent in the transmission are limitations. That's an important detail.
For the first months of life, a baby's brain is a neuron factory. Every experience, taste, finger wiggle etc is adding new neurons. At around 18 months, a neurotypical infant will go through a phase of neural pruning. Neurons that have not been reinforced by repetition get reabsorbed. That doesn't happen in autistics which can be a problem--the fast growing brain meets the limits of the slow-growing skull. That is when the regression in regressive autism can occur. The brains of autistics tend to be ~10% larger than neurotypicals.
So what is it like to have no operating system and too many neurons firing in your brain? Everything is perceived in a big noisy jumble. They call it sensory dysregulation. What to pay attention too? Everything is coming in at the same volume.
That's where stimming comes in. Stimming changes the orientation of the brain from observing (or perceiving) to acting. It has to do with suppression of mu waves. But anyway, it's a practical self-regulatory practice, stimming. It turns the wide open perceptual receiver and the volume down.
Despite what you've been told, most autistics tend to improve over time with no intervention at all. Autism used to be classified as a childhood condition because it was recognised that most autistic children grow out of it by puberty. But yes, a small percentage continued with severe impairments--around 6%.
Now it's really hard to know the numbers because, for one thing, the diagnostic criteria for autism was changed so that technically kids with Downs or Rhetts are classified as "Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified" a subset of autism. The other thing is that a law was passed in the US that made a requirement of an autism diagnosis in order to access Special Education. Ergo, an autism diagnosis nowadays does not necessarily mean autism. I think this is where they are hiding the vax injured kids. Because of Wakefield and the antivax "nutters" like Jenny McCarthy, the "science is settled"--vaccines don't cause autism. Which, they don't.
There used to be a diagnosis of Post-immunization encephalopathy: "This may follow inoculation with serum, particularly anti-tetanus serum, or vaccines such as smallpox, rabies, and typhoid."
That's from the DSM 2. It was removed and does not appear in the DSM 3, 4 and 5.
I'll answer some of your direct questions and share with you some of the things that helped me.
"What do you call someone with anxiety, sensory disorder, auditory processing disorder, stemming, speech delay but with intellectual impairment IQ borderline mentally retardation and lower IQs."
It could be an encephalopathic brain injury, or it could be autism. Autistics have some characteristic behaviors, like stimming. Another is categorising/systematising behavior. Perseveration. If you read Kanner's original study you will find more. It's available online.
"I don’t ever see them on podcasts, writing articles, attending college, speaking as eloquently as you do along with your vocabulary." I used to follow three non-verbal women who blogged about autism who were in a care home. They were very open about their impairments. One was incontinent. None could care for themselves. They were highly intelligent. There was a period of harassment of pos-aut bloggers and I lost track of them then. But they aren't the only ones. Michelle Dawson has some severe impairments, can't cook for herself for instance. You can listen to her being interviewed here: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/michelle-dawson/
Here's Tito: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC1V0BipsIc&t=214s
Carly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-skQxRz-xw
Donna Williams was interviewed on CBC radio back in 1992:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59jTSIdtkX0
Amanda Baggs was sometimes diagnosed as gifted and sometimes as intellectually impaired. She passed away recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc
"I forgot to include the severe gastrointestinal problems that accompanies many individuals that are considered autism."
Anxiety is dynamite for digestion. Anxiety keeps the body in fight or flight mode, which means blood circulation is prioritised for the limbs and running. No blood picking up nutrients in the intestines. Digestive juices don't flow. The body is not receptive to ingestion.
There may be cravings for foods that are sedating and over-eating. Nicotine is a neurotoxin that deadens the nerves. I smoked for years and it did help with my anxiety. I had severe anxiety into my 30's and still have anxiety in unfamiliar situations.
"I’m very interested because my 30 year old daughter is nothing like you. She can’t look at code, edit manuscripts or go to college. What is she called?"
I would say that I have been very lucky. By growing up in a rural area, and attending a tiny school, I was free of a lot of social pressure. Being able to play in our forested back yard was very helpful. I had an older sister who was very outgoing and she was happy to bring me along with her. She was a great shield by doing all the talking and hogging all the attention--the last thing I wanted ever was attention. My mother used to say "Leave her alone, she'll be alright."
I was accommodated in certain ways, supported, but not interfered with. But I still had to do chores and have good table manners, like my sibs.
"What about injecting aluminum into your bloodstream?"
Yes, that's the new one. For Bernard Rimland it was mercury. That was in 1964. Andrew Wakefield's hypothesis was that the live measles virus from the MMR vaccine burrowed into the intestinal lining which caused leakiness which caused encephalopathic brain injury. His study was very shoddy and was inconclusive. I don't think that anyone should be jabbed, period.
BTW, Rimland was a high level Naval research psychologist who had a particular interest in savantism. Wakefield's patent partner was a top-level UN epidemiologist with a particular interest in biomedical policy and increasing funding through PR efforts.
"Classic autism is temple Grandin PHD and you."
Temple was a poo smearer. She attributes her success to early ABA therapy. Also, she innovated a squeeze machine--have you read about that? I used heavy blankets myself. Very calming.
"If someone can’t take care of themselves and live independently as my daughter, then how can they take care of a child?"
I wouldn't have been able to care for a child. But I am married. He's also autistic.
"What percentage of people with autism not Asperger’s, are married and have children?"
According to the 1990 diagnostic criteria for autism or the present day one? You could go on to one of the autism forums and ask people. Wrong Planet has a dating sub forum. Though assuming that autistics want to get married is bit hmmm? Some autistics only want to pursue their special interest and find relationships a bother.
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAutism/
"A Can you provide any evidence?"
https://web.archive.org/web/20201127145247/https://amsny.org/discovery/lack-of-synaptic-pruning-in-autism/
Average brain is 10% larger: https://crackingtheenigma.blogspot.com/2012/01/do-kids-with-autism-have-big-brains.html
Children with Autism Have Extra Synapses in Brain; May be possible to prune synapses with drug after diagnosis (!!!): https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/children-autism-have-extra-synapses-brain
https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/brains-of-children-with-autism-teem-with-surplus-synapses/
Non-autistic synaptic density is reduced to half by age two: https://coverthree.com/blogs/research/kids-brain-development
https://www2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wtm/projects/nestcom/papers/Gallese-Eagle-Migone2007.pdf
https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran06/ramachandran06_index.html
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11486517/
This is a very interesting . Michelle has done much more research into autism than I have, so I won't attempt to answer any of your specific questions (I will make sure Michelle is aware of the comment.) The question that I keep coming back to is: can autism be purely defined? (I don't know the answer to this.) I have the sense that many things, in the US, these days are being called "autism" for the sake of forms/medical-billing/IEP's, etc. It is Michelle's point of view (as I understand it) that the type of regression/neurological-injury that can happen after vaccination is real, but not autism (though it is called autism.) Sometimes I think this is a matter of semantics. Do you have any thoughts about this?
I'd like to hear more about the autism paradigms. So much to pattern and create about over the past four years . Instinctively felt some affinity with neurodiverse dimensions (ADD/Schizoid/Autistic), but have allowed the corporate and pathological/medicalised constructions of them to flatten my curiosity. The Power-Threat-Meaning paradigm offers something, but there's room for more adventure and constellating. The injections/autism question is weird... Wakefield's court case...odd... I wonder whether the experimental injections are neuro-divergent psychoactives (and the same with atmospheric aerosols)? Positive and negatives ahead. Really engaging talk.
Stay tuned for Part II...
MH here. I can answer specific questions if you like?
Meanwhile, here's what I think is a major component that most people are unaware of; that a certain powerful sci-fi organisation got involved very early on in promoting an autism/vax link. Thereafter they promoted their own raft of "biomedical" treatments including chelation to remove Mercury and heavy metals.
The medical condition that back-ended their model of brain-injury-from-vax was Minimata disease (which maybe possibly made some sense for vaxes that contained thermisol, but they are very far out from there now) but their mission was always to popularise detoxing.
As well as making $$. This organisation is a major covert player in the alt health marketplace and Health Freedom Movement.
Another incentive for them is simply recruitment.
RFK has a little known but strong associations with this group and Wakefield has a more recent association. Mike Adams is another.
Love the fast motion painting!