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Patricia Lemer

Patricia Lemer is a licensed professional counselor, educational diagnostician, and author of "Outsmarting Autism" and "Total Load Theory," who hosts the biography-rooted "The Autism Detective" podcast and is a former Executive Director of Developmental Delay Resources.

Sep 1, 2026

8:05
So with that understanding then, can you give us a kind of an overarching definition of what total load theory is and how it can be helpful in understanding neurodivergent folks?
8:18
So it's an engineering term that describes why a bridge collapses.
8:25
And I live in Pittsburgh where we have over 400 bridges and every year or so one goes.
8:34
And we have to figure out why did that bridge collapse so we can prevent it in the future.
8:43
And it could be the weather.
8:45
It could be the design.
8:46
It could be a ship hitting the moorings of the bridge.
13:34
You've
8:30
And I guess the American Academy of Pediatrics has some, shall we say, friendly ties to the pharmaceutical industry that makes vaccines?
8:38
Right.
8:39
So I've addressed the whole vaccine issue in a chapter called Vaccine Facts and Myths.
8:47
And I take 10... of the generally accepted myths, which is that vaccines saved the world and that vaccinated kids are healthier than unvaccinated kids, neither of which is true, and show you the research and the truth behind those very widely held beliefs.
9:13
And so it's very clear that vaccinated kids have more allergies, more colds, more ear infections, more tummy aches than vaccinated kids.
9:28
And that in today's generally clean world where people are generally eating pretty good food, the vaccinated kids fall down when compared to the unvaccinated kids health wise.
9:46
And so that's a really, really important chapter for people to read and understand that this is all about money this is about money and years ago I wrote an article called do you really need a pediatrician because as you pointed out the pediatricians job right now during wellness checks is to vaccinate you.

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30:24
know, because we could just use the AI version of it right now.

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