I was sitting sipping my coffee reading an invitation to a friends baby shower… at the end it said: boy or girl… it is a surprise. I thought that was nice they wanted it to be a surprise and then I thought about the fact they did not get to see the amazing live video of a sonogram that I found so fascinating with my own daughter.
Then, It really was a lot like one of those cartoon light bulbs going off in my head… all the pieces just came together from different parts of my gray matter, ideas learned over the last couple of months and years siimply clicked like a jigsaw puzzle into one giant obvious picture. Is it possible the rise in Autism might correspond with something we are doing… but what? What if Autisim is connected to the increased technology and use of Sonograms.
Even more amazing was how quickly my suspicions were confirmed by checking on Google. To give you an idea, here is what I found in mere minutes…
Autism
People with autism have found abnormalities in several regions of the brain which suggest that autism results from a disruption of early fetal brain development.
What is a Sonogram
A sonogram, also known as an ultrasound, is a computerized picture taken by bouncing sound waves off organs and other interior body parts.
Active Sonar
Active sonar emits pulses of sound that travel through the water, reflect off objects, and return as an echo to an underwater acoustic receiver. It uses an underwater speaker to generate sound waves. The sound waves travel until they strike an object and are reflected in various directions.
Military Sonar May Give Whales the Bends, Study Says
John Roach, for National Geographic News
A team from the UK Marine Mammals Stranding Project found gas bubbles in their blood vessels, and haemorrhages in internal organs, characteristic indications of DCS.
“Tests on these whales proved that they had died from brain cavity, ear, and other tissue explosion.”
A study to determine the statistics of countries that use Sonograms a great deal, sometimes, or not at all against their rate of Autism would pretty quickly prove or disprove my the idea… don’t you think?
