posted April 04, 2012 05:56 AM            

It has been disproven over and over that vaccines are NOT the cause for autism.

If they were, how do you explain people who get vaccinated as babies and who do NOT have autism?

Also, as someone who as Asperger's, I can tell you that children are not diagnosed with autism right away not because they don't have it from the beginning, but because it takes awhile to show up and for a diagnostician to be sure. It can't be detected in utero, either. It can first be detected at 1 1/2 - 2 years old. People blame vaccinations when they are not the cause: it's just that it doesn't show up clearly until then, when the child has developmental delays. An autistic can pass for normal until he/she does not meet normal schedules for these things. You can't tell immediately just by looking right away.

On top of that, how are the statistics measured? If people with Asperger's are lumped in with the autistics, this might skew things. We are NOT the same as them, and are radically different. We're thrown in together because it's convenient (we're on the same spectrum), but trust me, you would know the difference between an autistic and a person with Asperger's immediately. The developmental differences are that pronounced. The only real gray area is between high-functioning autistics and us, but, even then, it becomes clear pretty quickly. So, although we should be put in a separate category, we are not always given that distinction, so if someone says that the rate of autism spectrum disorders is increasing, or says that autism is increasing and does not separate us from autistics, this is misleading. We are NOT the same.

I think that people want to understand why this horrible phenomenon keeps happening and want answers so badly. Any answer that seems plausible really hits people's emotions. I think that people who offer an easy explanation or cure for ANY illness--be it cancer, autism, AIDS, diabetes, or anything else--are manipulating people and playing on their feelings. Diseases are complicated, can change forms, etc. People want answers and we do not have them. I think that it's very, very, very dangerous to trust in unsound and unproven theories, not just for health reasons, but emotionally, too.

I don't believe exclusively in holistic medicine or in normal kinds, for what it's worth. I don't think that it's as simple as alternative = good, regular = bad. The answer is probably somewhere in between: a lot of holistic remedies are probably ineffective or dangerous or both, and a lot of normal medicines have nasty side effects and are pushed by drug companies for profit. And in between there are probably effective or at least better medicines that have yet to be discovered or understood completely.

There could be many other possible reasons for autism, too. One currently being researched is environmental damage. It isn't certain yet, and it may not be it, but it's something being investigated. There could be multiple causes as well, not just one. Some have also theorized that it starts in utero. So, there are other possibilities being explored.

Not getting your kids vaccinated puts them at risk for diseases. Frankly, I'm not going to say much more on my opinion of not getting your kid vaccinated, as I don't wish to offend and anger certain people here, but I very strongly do not support that choice.

In addition, not vaccinating will keep them out of a lot of things. In the US, to my understanding, most schools will not allow non-vaccinated children to attend. If you've ever read up on meningitis, you know how horrible it is, and I feel thankful that I got vaccinated for that one.

Maybe some people are very, very rarely allergic or sensitive to vaccines, but those people are few and far between compared to those who don't have those problems. Now, in those RARE cases, I can understand not getting vaccinated, but those people are not the majority. So, I think that talking to a doctor well-trained in vaccinations and well-versed in how they work first rather than just acting out of fear or what one has heard is a good option.

posted April 04, 2012 05:09 PM            

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posted April 05, 2012 01:09 PM            

To brush this off as "unscientific" reflects conditioning more than research and critical thinking.

posted June 09, 2012 12:01 AM            

Why OK? bc you can do whatever you want with your body. I am presenting this information for people that question the establishment. For people that understand that alopathic medicine is in bed with bigpharma and the government and that is about profit, keeping people dum, weak and population control as the cabal is very concern with population growth since it has been the highest it has ever been. But is not just about population control bc they also want to keep the masses dum so they are easy to control is about a master slave world.

The first paragraph of chapter 1 of book titled "politics in healing":

"Politics and healing might be thought of as a contradiction in terms. Surely there can't be politics in cancer and healing; surely when breakthroughs are made, the medical profession puts them to use. That's the way it is, isn't it? It would be nice if it were that simple."

posted June 09, 2012 02:30 AM            

There are articles that say that child vaccines now don't have thimerosal as a response to evidence linking autism to vaccines yet autism continues to be exponentially on the rise. First case of autism was reported after the first vaccines with thimerosal were injected but yet if you look at ingredients most vaccines have it and some vaccines have it and are not listed in the ingredients but if you test the vaccine you will find it has mercury. Most adults vaccines have thimerosal.