Yesterday marked "launch day" for my book. If you haven't ordered a copy (or have and would like a gift copy) please pop over to Amazon HERE today so we can have some fun with the ranking, please? :) Email me your receipt and mailing address and I'll send you a signed bookplate. Also, you can enter a contest for a free copy at The Divining Wand book blog HERE. Thanks. Kim

Julie Ryan Evans has bravely published a provocative review of All I Can Handle I'm No Mother Teresa at The Stir, a Cafe Mom blog. Click HERE to read her post and comment. She says:

I don't want to believe Kim Stagliano and her concerns about a possible link between autism and vaccines.

I want to write her off as a parent who's just looking to blame someone or something, or as a parent who missed the signs that were there all along.

I want to cling to studies and reports I've read that say there is no link between autism and vaccines, that the rise in incidents in recent years has to do with better diagnosis of the disease.

I want to believe that vaccinating my children is the safest choice, that people are being scared in the wrong direction by avoiding vaccinations and point to things like the whooping cough epidemic in California as proof that vaccines are necessary.

But after reading Stagliano's book, All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa, I'm rethinking everything I want to believe about autism and how children are being stricken by it.

Then Evans asks parents flat out what they think of the vaccine autism discussion. The comment thread is an astounding look at how parents feel about vaccination choice and safety.  And at least one of the Huffington Post robo-commenters from the vaccine-injury-denial community (VID) has commented to disparage me and Age of Autism.

Click HERE to read her post and comment.


Thanks! KIM