How about not bombarding autists with a month of reenforcement that we have a problem? Don't we suffer enough without seeing "You've got problems!" screaming at us from every newspaper, TV channel or website, with all the triggering that goes with it?

I know it's all well intended, but for me it's "Autism Torture Month". I have to assume it's something started by allists, who forgot to think of the impact on the very people they tried to "save", and I don't care what other name it'll get, as long as it goes away. No, I do care: I would like it to be known as "April".
                                                                                                                                            Mysha

I am aware that mothers who do not "vaccinate" have much healthier kids. I am aware that if you do not "vaccinate" the odds of your child getting an ASD are radically lower. I am aware the less "medical care" you get from Big Medicine the less you need. I am aware that drugs and "vaccines" are all toxic and do not belong in a human body unless death will result without. I am aware "vaccines" have never been shown to confirm more good than harm.

I am aware that those who run this world want to fill me and mine with a seemingly endless number and doses of "vaccines".

Amazingly this morning's Zite(R) report included the "respectfully insolent" morning blog of none other than ORAC, that self-proclaimed spewer of vitriolic attacks on all subjects that are anathema to the mainstream medicine show. I'm actually honored that in his insolent rant he's included us once again in the usual attacks on those, who are actually effecting recoveries and improvements.

As a good friend once said, if you aren't being pursecuted, then you're not doing anything right.

But am more than incensed by his (typical) attacks on the parents who have dared try to bring the SHAME of Big Pharma, and the PAIN and SUFFERING of autism to public attention.

I'm a healthy person who consciously chose to go into a very controversial profession. I am able to blow off Orac's haughty nastiness, knowing he is a Pharma shill. I'm even capable of suing him for defamation but it's not worth the effort. I'd rather devote my energy to finding more and better ways to safely fix the kids, thank you very much.

I'm also a healthy person who made a decision to vaccinate, then witnessed the vaccine injure her child, but was blessed to also be able to see him recover.

I am not an autistic child who lives with so much pain every day that I must distract myself from the things around me by withdrawing, banging my head to the point of a concussion, or covering my eyes and ears at every day lights and noises that are painful to the point of sheer panic. I'm not the child whose food goes straight through the body at every meal. I'm not the child who eventually may develop cancer or heart disease because of the very same vaccines that made me autistic. I'm not the innocent victim of an all-knowing and all-powerful lobby and industry who blatantly declares itself the keeper and expounder of the "only truth" which has become such a big business that it must lie to keep its coffers filled - and coffins, I might add.

I am not the autistic child who cannot defend from verbal attacks on my parents who dare say they saw me regress, nor who are daily, HOURLY, charged with dealing with my pain...

I am a witness and a scribe and sometimes a healer who tries very hard to help children lose their pain, heal and become healthy contributors to the very society that spawns complete stone-throwing, vitriole spewing Pharma pawns like Orac. I'm a professional who day in and day out reads the stories, takes down the chronological histories, watches the videos and sees the photos of once-precocious, healthy, normally-maturing children BEFORE the vaccines, and then the crumbling, pain-racked, expressions after the vaccines.

There must be a very special place in Heaven for the children and families who have been sentenced to a miserable existence from vaccines. And while it goes against my personal Christian belief system to do so, I honestly hope there is also a very special warm place in hell for the "oracs" of the world who try to hide their nastiness and the source thereof behind internet monikers, and make unveiled attempts to destroy the reputations and credentials of those who try to help the victims. (Dr. Wakefield certainly comes to mind!) Orac must be very proud of himself. For a little time. But there is an eternity ahead.

Awareness, awareness, come on in all fairness,
those that take action are just a small fraction
of the total aware, most just don't care
we can paint the world blue, or change the hue,
awareness, acceptance simply won't do.
Thanks Annie (the sun will come out tomorrow)

"Be part of the faction that will take action."

Anne:
I like it.

We could go with the color red.

Louis

Spot on!

"If AUTISM is ACCEPTABLE, why do so many parents cry when they receive an autism diagnosis?"

How about Autism Action Month?

Hi Bob,

How about "Insolence is Respectful"?

John

PS I suppose Shakespeare got there first with the weird sisters in Macbeth:

'Fair is foul and foul is fair;
Hover through the mists and filthy air"

Very well said, Anne. The pro-vaxxers hypocritically harp on about how VPDs are such scourges and so debilitating, but autism is different and should be accepted. Even mention how much of a struggle autism can be and they will accuse you of being an ableist.