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Evidence for autism in folklore?

2005; BMJ; Volume: 90; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/adc.2003.044958

1468-2044

Julie Leask, Alison Leask, Natalie Silove,

Child Development and Digital Technology

“The girl I gave birth to has been stolen, she’s gone.” (Mother, A Current Affair, Vaccination: a stab in the dark? 30 January 2001)“So the goblins came. They pushed their way in and pulled baby out, leaving another all made of ice.” (Maurice Sendak, Outside over there . Puffin Books, Middlesex, UK, 1981) In the wake of the now settled MMR controversy and attempts to link the vaccine with autism, there has been widening interest in whether autism has increased in incidence over the past two decades.1,2 While …