My feeling is that my daughter exhibits traits that both my husband and I have on a much lesser scale. I have the sensory issues and he has the word finding issues. Neither of us had issues so bad that we couldn’t cope in life and were/are quite successful (he has a very successful career; I’ve been a full-time mom since our daughter was born but was very successful career-wise prior to having a full-time mommy job). However, our daughter has issues in spades. I feel pretty certain that in our case, her autism was inherited.

I am a proponent of vaccines because I think they do help prevent a lot of pretty deadly things and to put it bluntly, I’d rather have my daughter and deal with autism than not have her at all.

I am not sure if vaccines play a role but I am open to it. My daughter received her vaccines when likely she was exposed to the mercury although I don’t recall any severe reactions or changes in behavior other than some delayed speech but I didn’t at the time link it to any vaccine.

That said, my mother died before my daughter was diagnosed so I can’t ask her this in detail but I do recall her talking at length about a negative reaction I had to an MMR vaccine and that it kick-started severe allergies and that I never had the follow-up vaccination due to this. (My pregnancy testing showed that I had the immunity anyway however.)

I’ve not heard this proposed anywhere else and this is just my theory….So, I’m wondering if some people are just genetically more prone than others to have an allergic reaction or the like and that for each generation the effect multiplies so that what was once a small effect and not very noticeable become magnified for each following generation. I feel pretty certain that this is the case. Just like we know medicine is not tolerated by everyone exactly the same way and we don’t know why, it is probably so with vaccines. But I don’t think it’s worth risking whole communities reverting back to the dark ages before vaccines to cut them out entirely. However, I do think if we went back to fewer vaccines such as in the late 1960s and early 70s that we could have the same protection and less risk to children. I don’t feel confident that all the increases in the number of vaccines we give to kids have really had a proportional improvement in public health. Just my thoughts….

I have a blog but I don’t write about autism on it because my daughter is very sensitive and so high functioning that she prefers to be very private. But it’s nice to voice my idea somewhere…I really wouldn’t be surprised if eventually someone publishes something like this as the final theory for the increase in autism.

My opinion is that ALL vaccines are toxic. All one has to do is pick up *his* book and read the ingredients or do some research on your own…when you understand how toxic the ingredients are it’s eye opening…when you add those toxins into the mix of the bad junk we breath in, eat and drink it can be down right over loading on any body.

His book actually made me feel even better about my decision not to vaccinate. I wish our vaccines were safe but until they are I won’t put them in my childrens bodies any longer…and that goes for the flu shots too.

I wish more PED’s would just admit that we need safe and green vaccines. Saying that doesn’t mean they can’t still back vaccines but just them admitting that we (as parents) deserve better “protection” againts diseases than we have right now.

I also wish there would be more talk about vaccines being harmful past just Autism. I’m happy that there is so much media attention about this subject but there are so many more childhood diseases and issues that could be linked to the toxins in vaccines.

My two — three cents ;)

Not sure if you know, but my 5 year old has autism. He was my fifth biological child and I could tell early on he was “different” though I suspect most parents would not have noticed the things I picked up on. I only picked up on them, because I had nursed four children previously and had a good feel for how intense the bonding between a nursing child and its mother.

My son did not bond to me in the same way. He made eye contact, but not as much as my other children. There were a of slight differences. My son NEVER had immunizations at his early check-ups and never had the MMR until after he was diagnosed with autism (after he was 2).

I told my doctors he had autism at age 6 months, but they did not believe me at the time. They could not see what I could. My son could speak a few words, such as “Love you mama” up until he was about 15 months old. At that time he went into a MAJOR regression and quit speaking. He could only shrill. His anger, frustrations, and quirky behaviors INCREASED. He started having more and more meltdowns.

I believe this is “age induced” regression in autism that coincidentally occurs at the same time as the MMR shot. However, my son did not have the MMR shot at that age and still regressed.

Anyhow, I am not saying that immunizations are harmless. I think they can have issues. Thus the reason my son did not have his immunizations at an early age. I am not against them, but I take precautions.

By the way, my nonverbal son with autism, now speaks, loves other children, and rarely has meltdowns. A combination of nutrition and methods we tried at home, with no help from professionals. There was trial and error. We still go through trial and error with him everytime we have to find a solution.

We are very blessed by God! Some people never know the joy of being stretched by an autistic child…we do and it has changed us for the better!!!

Blessings to you Steph!!! Enjoyed this article very much!