I haven't shown the slightest sign of the grief that I feel on a daily basis for months. Watching Bob talk blew a gasket in me. Often I forget, or sublimate how angry and confused I am. Usually I laugh - a sick sense of schadenfreude except that the misery and laughter is at my own expense. Watching Offit or Snyderman, perfect pitch and flat effect - they're misguided and ignorant and sometimes amusing or scary. The humanity that I saw in this interview with Bob hurt - I just wish I could relay this feeling of certainty that is reality for so many of us to friends and family before they have to join our club. Say too much and you alienate people- say too little and you're guilt ridden. I'll keep pushing and educating anyone that I can. Right now I'm worried about my nurse sister in law who is pregnant with my neice or nephew. I have the safeminds flu shot info ready to send. And I'm praying she'll listen to me instead of her coworkers - 50% of this youngest generation in our family are ASD.

Once again, the media gives into fear mongering about measles stats: 131 people out of the ENTIRE US population. Good grief, if only there were 131 cases of autism...wouldn't that be something?

NONE of those children died and most were sick at home and recovered without a trip to the hospital...and now have life-long immunity. And I would be willing to bet a good many of the kids getting sick were, in fact, vaccinated against the measles.

We say: 1 in 150 kids are being dx'd with autism and what do the pro-vaxers say? They say, "Oh, yeah? Well 131 kids came down with measles last year and had to stay in bed for a week...so there!" Clearly, we parents of vaccine-injured kids are whining over nothing. (sigh)..

I cannot believe that such denail is going on that runs so deeply as to now attack parents and tell us it's our faults for thinking that vaccines had no connection (we are crazy hacks), and are going to be cause of new epidemics of measles and polio and that we are american terrorists and have persued now death threats. Ok, I would be the first admit, that I would not be unhappy/cry a tear if someone got their last supper for supporting vaccines, but I also don't think parents can have this much patience much longer. Not that I lump myself in that category, but I know a few who had vivid dreams and imaginations to go off on people like Offit. If he can't take the heat, get out of the business.

First of all, I would have gladly taken a week of measles rash and fever, supported by CLO and other natural ingredients, than a lifetimes of autism, and second of all, they have proved the Polio virus was brought on by pesticides and sugar (pesticids on crops in the summer and ice cream cones/candy, no less). Polio was considered a summer illness, look it up. I should be afraid of all the vaccinated children shedding their manmade shit on my kids. What are they afraid of, if my kid has it, the vaccine should work right? Herd immunity? The science please?

I have grandchidlren WTIHOUT autism because I told my NT daughters to not vaccinate (no problem mom, we had autism already), and there kids are healthy, thriving, smart and will be just fine in this world without them. I love how they try to put an innocuous illness considered the right of passage then, as DEADLY and DANGEROUS. The language has changed, look it up.

Bottom line, vaccines are pure shit, and full of shit, and I will not, cannot, and will never put shit in my kids, or my grandkids EVER. They are a neurotoxic witches brew, with unknown consequences to children who have immune dysregulation and metabolic problems or histories of family autoimmunity. These kids already have damaged Blood Brain Barriers due to mercury influences before the vaccines and their concominant deficiency in handling them, fluorides, toxins, oxidative stress etc. They already had a load of viruses in utero and bacteria, they don' t need more things to load their systems down, They don't have very good VIT D levels, they have very poor gut function, and what vaccines do to such children, is ghastly. There is no one size fits all vaccine, there is no such thing as a greened vaccine, and or slower schedule, and or single vaccine, all are dangerous, and should be avoided with your "quacky views" on vaccines. Even the single dose vials in UK are causing anaphylaxis...point being, NO VACCINE IS SAFE.

Nancy Snydreman, and all the like never have read the science, I can guarantee you that. They have never read OUR STORIES and our CONCLUSIONS, and why THEIR'S is just pure junk science. Bottom line, to convince this women otherwise, would take one thing...to have someone disintegrate into autism following a shot, or other disease state. The justice would be her mother or herself who believe so much in flu vaccines, to get alzheimers and the like. Meridiths husband must know what got him there, and I can pretty much guess it was a combination of viruses, bacteria, vaccines, toxins, and low VIT D that got him there.

Sometimes, you just want to punch the TV screen, but the best thing we all can do, is to BOYCOTT vaccines, in DROVES. LET THEM COME up into our faces...let them feel the heat of losing profit (like our pocketbooks for autism), and then, maybe then, they will finally admit what they have done. By saying a vaccine can be greened, or take the toxins out, is non science. The toxins in there are meant to be there to make the immune system alerted to the foreign proteins being injected. You can't replace that. If you did, the vaccine vial would be full of contaminants, which may be even more deliterious than the original toxins. There is not winning this, BOYCOTT the shit.

"Did you actually *pick the purse up* while you were looking for the hanky?"

Craig - DON'T ANSWER THAT

I may be outta the club, but I still got your back...

(*Kelli, I looked in my wife's purse for my hanky but couldn't find it*)

Keep looookking....it's right there next to the kitchen sink!

But, I just gotta have the answer to this million dollar question: Did you actually *pick the purse up* while you were looking for the hanky?

Yes, chiming in with Craig--Bob does rock!... and love AoA! Happy anniversary and all of you--Dan, Kim, Mark, and Anne--are doing an excellent job!

Now on to scarier topics--Offit. Yes, agree he is a narcissist and agree with Dan that his personal attacks and style of writing are bullshit (my word) and to get everyone off the track and on to his sideshow of illusion. Then we see it's all about him, his ND buddies, his special brand of science ie - 100,000 vaccines is a drop in the bucket of what an infant can handle, don't ya know. The cream cheese analogy is perfect -- and like cream cheese -- there is an odor, especially when it has gone "bad". I think it went bad long ago.

So to any new readers who have found themselves here after reading the Newsweek article, welcome to the best place to find honest and current, science, politics, medical information, and parent input about the autism epidemic. No bad cream cheese here.

Bob Krakow, you rock! Everyone here at AoA...you all know that you rock, too.

In response to Pauly prOffit's whining....awww, poor thing. He's being victimized by that mean old Autism community. A single tear rolls down my cheek. Now, don't mention the smearing and ridicule he aims at us. Don't mention the personal and professional attacks he has aimed at people like Robert Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Poling. No, he never did anything like that. Everyone, let's all shed a tear for the pitiful and victimized Pauly prOffit.

(*Kelli, I looked in my wife's purse for my hanky but couldn't find it*)

Warning: The previous post may contain sarcasm.

Something that jumped out at me in the Newsweek article: "Autism Speaks, the nation's largest autism-advocacy group, is awarding $3.6 million for research on potential environmental factors, including the vaccine components mercury and aluminum. The group says it must 'affirm the public confidence in the safety of vaccines.'"

Does this mean that Autism Speaks already knows what the results of the study will be? And their goal is not to discover causes of autism that could lead to prevention and treatment -- their goal is to find vaccines innocent?

Thanks, Dan & Kim, for a great web site and for all of your work. Although as usual they presented this as parents vs. science -- and I wish they had included some of the science and scientists on our side -- and Dr. Offit comes off as a hero -- it's great that AoA was quoted and the web site address was given out! At least that provided some balance.

I can't stand that Dr. Nancy Snyderman. I've already written to the station and the Today Show that she seems really biased and I can't stand to hear her yack on about flu shots. Even Meredith Viera recoiled when she mentioned them and said she disagrees with flu shots - maybe her and her husband have some personal reasons as to why they don't believe in them.
Happy one year anniversary -I love your web-site!!
Good info about Offit being a patent holder.
Last night I had to hear Joe Schwarcz (from Montreal) a chemist, slamm anyone who disagrees with the vaccine agenda. I was soooo mad I'm going to email him, too.
Keep up the great work!!!