Autism and Vaccines...

No, I do not believe there is a link. If there was, the huge increase in autism would have started around the same time the vaccines started to be widely used instead of 20 years later. I think that parents who have autistic children need to have someone or something to blame, so they blame vaccines. In reality, over the past 20 years as the rates of autism have increased, there have been other major environmental and lifestyle changes, including more pollution, more processed food, more man made substances and products being used and women having children later in life to name just a few. Another contributing factor is that people are less tolerant now than they were in the past. When children misbehave or do not act 'normal' parents want a quick fix, a label, perhaps medication to 'fix' them. When I was a child, parents simply dealt with it and considered their children to be 'difficult' or something like that, but they did not go to the doctor when their children misbehaved for a solution. So for that reason, some of the children who had autism and ADHD (have you noticed the huge increase in children with ADHD also?) were probably never labeled, they were just 'problem' children, or went to the 'special' class. In addition, the diseases these vaccines protect against are very serious- deadly- and should not be considered unnecessary because they do still exist, and do pose a real threat to those who are not vaccinated.

I would think that it really has more to do with the fact that many women are waiting until they are older to start a family. There has been a proven correlation between older birth mothers and autistic children. Kids have been getting routine vaccinations for over 44 years now. If it was vaccinations causing autism then it would have shown up long ago.

I am on both sides with this.. I believe something is linked with the whole vaccines and Autism. Some people believe it's the mercury in the vaccines and some say it's not, some also believe that they don't use mercury in vaccines anymore, but I can tell you right now, they still use mercury in vaccines, so every parent should be able to ask the doctor and even tell the doctor that they don't want mercury in their childs vaccines. Most doctors are mercury free now, but not all. But another thing is, I don't know if it's mercury that was the cause or is the cause for Autism or if it's the other stuff they use in vaccines..? I know someone with Mercury poisoning can have the same signs as an Autistic child.. but who is to really say? I think more research should be done about this for sure... Also some people need to realize that back in the day the vaccines had less crap in them and as time went on, the doses in vaccines went up and I find it weird that the Autism rates also went up... I know my son has always had the signs as a baby, but I never saw it then and I also cried that the vaccines caused it, but now that I look back, he always had the signs, but I do know that after his MMR is when he honestly went more into the Autism spectrum. So I feel vaccines might trigger Autismm more then cause it... Either way, I feel they should still think about lowering the dose of vaccines...

That is a very difficult question, at least for me to answer. Just know that there is also a link between eating ice cream and drowning in a swimming pool. As ice cream consumption goes up, drowning goes up. Why? Because both activities occur more often in the summer months. Perhaps autism and the vaccines are related, or perhaps, like the ice cream and the drownings, it has some other connection.

you are not being parniod my son was diagnosed with Autism as a dirrect result of the vaccines he was given at birth. it raised the Mercury level in his system so high that it started to distroy the parts of the brain theat control flight to fright and speech and as a direct result he is now a low functioning Autistic 3 year old. Good luck I hope this helps.