Vaccines and Autism Linked?

Linda C--We had Kaiser coverage when our son was born and growing up. But they refused to evaluate him, not for ASD and not for his bilateral tibial torsion that cause dhim to fall on his face when he tried to run with other kids while in daycare.
We "got it" early on, that we were on our own to figure out how to care for our son, and determined to help optimize his abilities as much as possible, to avoid getting him "labeled", to see what he could accomplish in life.
We later learned we had, "flying by the seat of our pants" done much of what is now officially deemed as proper supportive and developmental care.
He managed to get into the Air Force and stuck with it for 6 years--long enough to get a few benefits. But then things kept changing too much, and he regressed.
He ended up being diagnosed at about age 27.
He is almost 30 now, and has finally settled into sharing an apartment with anotehr high-functioning person with ASD; both are on Disability for it.
While he is attempting to go to school, he is having difficulties carrying a full load. Also, the college had very little awareness or knowledge how to help THAT kind of "handicapped" student. But they are learning fast!
There are lots of things that CAN be done to decrease the severity of the manifestation of ASD, though some of those might be a bit primitive.
For kids who's hearing is too acute at certain tones, a few have been reverted to "normal" by simply having the specific tone levels damaged ju

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I always observed that my son was extraordinarily intelligent, just had difficulty relating to the world around him. As we described him, "he is wired differently". I always believed that people with ASD are not necesarily sick, but different from waht we currently call "normal".
I think far larger issues are at play in this, that there are so many developing it in the age we live in, concurrently with all teh chemicals, over-population, and other stressors.
Perhaps there is a reason for it.
Perhaps it will be those with ASD who help find better ways to do things societies at large have been so dysfunctional at.
Perhaps we are about to witness a huge surge in the numbers of "geniuses" among us.
We do not know yet.
But I sure do NOT want BigPharma to get more chances to drug or "treat" those with ASD to oblivion, nor cause damage to get them back to "normal"!
There must be better ways.

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im a mother of 2 autistic children and yes i watch my son go from "normal" to not speaking over nite after the 18 month shot but no one listened to me and he didnt get his diagnoses til he was more than 3 yrs old to old for early intervention we worked hard with him and he still doesnt have conversation with you at age 11 but he can tell you what he needs or wants my daughter was born when my son was 4 and she started the jargen talk earlier then 18 months and since i already knew the signs off to the dr i went and we got her a diagnoses early and was able to get early intervention to help her and you can see a world of difference between the 2 she still has her prob but she can hold a conversation with you at age 7 but the goverment seems to want to do nothing but cut funding and services i have a petition to stop these cuts if you would check it out and sign it would b much appriciated the site is http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Autism-and-other-medical-disorders-dsm/

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2nd half:
antidiuretic hormone at night--we couldn’t afford that]]
He stopped playing with any toys that had wheels [which persists into his adult life--no wheeled things]
He had hand flapping at his ears, sensory overload issues, trouble making eye contact, increased learning difficulties; stopped efforts to talk, until slightly after age 2.
Never had any of those symptoms until he got so sick subsequent to that set of vaccinations.
SO, do vaccines cause brain issues? I believe, strongly, YES.
They also cause other health issues, which I have witnessed repeatedly in other children for over 30 years: such as sunken eyes with dark circles under them in children who didn't have that until vaccinations, pale/wan faces, energy fluctuations, easier prey to other infections, learning and behavioral issues.
Do vaccines cause health and behavioral issues?
I totally believe they do.
Do Docs LIE when they assure parents that NON-thimerosal vaccines are being used?
YES--I have witnessed that happening, and have repeatedly advised parents to insist on being able to read the container the vaccines are drawn from, and watch the nurse or Doc drawing up those vaccines and give them to their kids.
Also, have told parents they can insist on having separate vaccines, instead of multi-vaccines, as well as starting vaccines later, when their infants are a bit older and have been breast feeding for several months, to allow their immune systems to mature a bit more to cope wi

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My son was pretty normally progressing, was open, smiling, fun, interactive... until one particular set of vaccinations.
After that set at about age 18 mo. and potty trained, he got extremely sick with high fevers of unknown origin. It came on very fast. After 2 days of this, he had stopped eating, unable to drink liquids, he nearly ended up in the hospital.
But, Kaiser's Advice Nurse told us to keep him home to avoid infecting other kids; she was incompetent to discern whether it was a vaccine reaction [as are many Docs].
At that point, I was desperate; my beautiful son was near death.
I started feeding him tiny crumbs of Mighty Mouse children's chewable multi-vit/mineral tabs every 15 minutes [those got bought up by Twin Labs, which got rid of those, and replaced them with Animal something-er-other not as good, but far better than other chewables on the market].
Within about 2 tiny crumbles or about 1/2 hour of starting doing that, he was able to drink water, which I offered every few minutes and kept pushing him to drink it.
2 hours later, he was taking a whole Mighty Mouse MVI/Mins by himself.
Then he was sipping broth, and was making a fast recovery.
It tooks several days to bring him back to any energy levels.
Except he was NOT ok.
He had problems with wetting himself during the day, and bedwetting at night--he had never done that since before being potty trained.
[[I learned that high fevers can damage the adrenal glands that produce anti-diuretic h

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My son was pretty normally progressing, was open, smiling, fun, interactive... until one particular set of vaccinations.
After that set at about age 18 mo. and potty trained, he got extremely sick with high fevers of unknown origin. It came on very fast. After 2 days of this, he had stopped eating, unable to drink liquids, he nearly ended up in the hospital.
But, Kaiser's Advice Nurse told us to keep him home to avoid infecting other kids; she was incompetent to discern whether it was a vaccine reaction [as are many Docs].
At that point, I was desperate; my beautiful son was near death.
I started feeding him tiny crumbs of Mighty Mouse children's chewable multi-vit/mineral tabs every 15 minutes [those got bought up by Twin Labs, which got rid of those, and replaced them with Animal something-er-other not as good, but far better than other chewables on the market].
Within about 2 tiny crumbles or about 1/2 hour of starting doing that, he was able to drink water, which I offered every few minutes and kept pushing him to drink it.
2 hours later, he was taking a whole Mighty Mouse MVI/Mins by himself.
Then he was sipping broth, and was making a fast recovery.
It tooks several days to bring him back to any energy levels.
Except he was NOT ok.
He had problems with wetting himself during the day, and bedwetting at night--he had never done that since before being potty trained.
[[I learned that high fevers can damage the adrenal glands that produce anti-diuretic h

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My son was pretty normally progressing, was open, smiling, fun, interactive... until one particular set of vaccinations.
After that set at about age 18 mo. and potty trained, he got extremely sick with high fevers of unknown origin. It came on very fast. After 2 days of this, he had stopped eating, unable to drink liquids, he nearly ended up in the hospital.
But, Kaiser's Advice Nurse told us to keep him home to avoid infecting other kids; she was incompetent to discern whether it was a vaccine reaction [as are many Docs].
At that point, I was desperate; my beautiful son was near death.
I started feeding him tiny crumbs of Mighty Mouse children's chewable multi-vit/mineral tabs every 15 minutes [those got bought up by Twin Labs, which got rid of those, and replaced them with Animal something-er-other not as good, but far better than other chewables on the market].
Within about 2 tiny crumbles or about 1/2 hour of starting doing that, he was able to drink water, which I offered every few minutes and kept pushing him to drink it.
2 hours later, he was taking a whole Mighty Mouse MVI/Mins by himself.
Then he was sipping broth, and was making a fast recovery.
It tooks several days to bring him back to any energy levels.
Except he was NOT ok.
He had problems with wetting himself during the day, and bedwetting at night--he had never done that since before being potty trained.
[[I learned that high fevers can damage the adrenal glands that produce anti-diuretic h

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My son was pretty normally progressing, was open, smiling, fun, interactive... until one particular set of vaccinations.
After that set at about age 18 mo. and potty trained, he got extremely sick with high fevers of unknown origin. It came on very fast. After 2 days of this, he had stopped eating, unable to drink liquids, he nearly ended up in the hospital.
But, Kaiser's Advice Nurse told us to keep him home to avoid infecting other kids; she was incompetent to discern whether it was a vaccine reaction [as are many Docs].
At that point, I was desperate; my beautiful son was near death.
I started feeding him tiny crumbs of Mighty Mouse children's chewable multi-vit/mineral tabs every 15 minutes [those got bought up by Twin Labs, which got rid of those, and replaced them with Animal something-er-other not as good, but far better than other chewables on the market].
Within about 2 tiny crumbles or about 1/2 hour of starting doing that, he was able to drink water, which I offered every few minutes and kept pushing him to drink it.
2 hours later, he was taking a whole Mighty Mouse MVI/Mins by himself.
Then he was sipping broth, and was making a fast recovery.
It tooks several days to bring him back to any energy levels.
Except he was NOT ok.
He had problems with wetting himself during the day, and bedwetting at night--he had never done that since before being potty trained.
[[I learned that high fevers can damage the adrenal glands that produce anti-diuretic h

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