If you have a learning disability and were born between 1927 - 1987, you might want to read this

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Note: the more you dig into human exposure to toxic lead, how it's in all of our bodies, passed down to us as fetuses from our mothers as we needed calcium, and find that our IQs, your IQ, my IQ, everyone's IQ is lower today than it would otherwise be, along with the narcissistic personality disorders lead poisoning promotes, you begin to see current events in a whole new light.

The Secret History of [tetraethyl] Lead (March 2002)

The next time you pull the family barge in for a fill-up, check it out: The gas pumps read “Unleaded.” You might reasonably suppose this is because naturally occurring lead has been thoughtfully removed from the gasoline. But you would be wrong. There is no lead in gasoline unless somebody puts it there. And, a little more than seventy-five years ago, some of America’s leading corporations–General Motors, Du Pont and Standard Oil of New Jersey (known nowadays as Exxon)–were that somebody. They got together and put lead, a known poison, into gasoline, for profit.
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According to a 1988 report to Congress on childhood lead poisoning in America by the government’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, one can estimate that the blood-lead levels of up to 2 million children were reduced every year to below toxic levels between 1970 and 1987 as leaded gasoline use was reduced. From that report and elsewhere, one can conservatively estimate that a total of about 68 million young children had toxic exposures to lead from gasoline from 1927 to 1987.
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Children are the first and worst victims of leaded gas; because of their immaturity, they are most susceptible to systemic and neurological injury, including lowered IQs, reading and learning disabilities, impaired hearing, reduced attention span, hyperactivity, behavioral problems and interference with growth. Because they often go undetected for some time, such maladies are particularly insidious. In adults, elevated blood-lead levels are related to hypertension and cardiovascular disease, particularly strokes, heart attacks and premature deaths. Lead exposure before or during pregnancy is especially serious, harming the mother’s own body, affecting fetal development and frequently leading to miscarriage.
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A 1992 article in The New England Journal of Medicine revealed that pre-Columbian inhabitants of North America had average blood-lead levels 625 times lower than the current “safe” level of 10 mcg/dl. - The Nation

Harmful tailpipe emissions go back a long way. In 1921, a General Motors engineer named Thomas Midgley Jr. found a new way to reduce the “knocking” in auto engines: the highly toxic additive called tetraethyl lead.

The engineer Midgley tried everything “from melted butter and camphor to ethyl acetate and aluminum chloride.” Ethanol, it turns out, worked great to solve the problem.

But GM didn’t like ethanol. It couldn’t be patented, and the corporate giant couldn’t control its production. What’s more, Kitman wrote, “the oil companies hated it, a powerful disincentive for the fledgling GM, which was loath to jeopardize relations with these mighty power brokers.”

In February 1923, filling stations began selling so-called leaded gasoline. Midgley wasn’t there. He was “in bed with severe lead poisoning,” according to a Smithsonian article on leaded gas. - The Spokesman Review

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[multigraincracker]

1. Don't forget about those layers of

paint still in houses and in water pipes.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. I have ADHD and take meds to treat it

Been on ADHD meds when I was a kid,took it off and on throughout my life.

When I don't take my meds my ADHD gets worse.

My meds make me feel normal.

And I am 55 years old and still get symptoms if I don't take my meds. Been on the same dose for years.

It does not go away when you get older.

If lead causes it, the damage has been done. It does not get better, with age at least in my situation.

I have had a lot of IQ tests in my life, and I am gifted . Would be amazed how intelligent I might have been without the lead issue.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

3. That is eye opening.

I have ADHD, learning disability, hyper sensitivity, epilepsy, and a few areas of dyslexia. I got these however from my biological mother drinking during her entire pregnancy with me.

Other than getting worse because of an accident I would not be surprised if this could be something that also makes it worse.