Diagnosis of an illness that has no treatment and no cure is almost more of a liability because it means getting labeled. So if the condition isn't too severe it is called something else. I know a 5 year old who is without a doubt on the spectrum. He has so many medical problems including a history of seizures. He is losing his hair. He has emotional problems like meltdowns. But as far as I know he doesn't have a diagnosis. There are probably thousands if not 10s of thousands exactly like he is. As long as he can have something of a normal life he stays off the spectrum diagnosis. This is, of course, tragic in so many ways. Why oh why can't we face the reality of this situation, admit that a horrible medically induced epidemic has taken over so lives, and begin finding what the optimal conditions are for these kids. I'm thinking of this because recently I saw a picture of this boy in a warm climate in a bathing suit. He looked so happy, and his eyes were clear. Then a few weeks later he was in the snow and the faded look was back on his face. What if... what if these aluminum poisoned children are like the Spanish sheep who were also aluminum poisoned, lost their hair, and then eventually died. The trigger was the cold weather. Should children suffering from aluminum poisoning not be exposed to cold? No answer there...

Thank you ladies. You bolstered a fellow soldier in the mom-world of autism. You have no idea how timely and what a blessing your kind words were to read at that moment. It gave me a little strength to Keep Calm and Autism On. Us mom's gotta stick together :)

Good for these parents!

And asking again if there is anyone here who is patterning? Who feed their children vegan? Both were wonderful for us, and no-one here has ever answered me, that I have seen. And my last two posts, did not seem to get posted.

@ Robyn - I am so sorry about your son. Self-injury is incredibly difficult to live with - it infuriates me that the neurodiversity movement either ignores self-injury or blames the parents. A neurodiversity advocate once told me that my son was self-injurious because he "didn't have a safe place to be autistic." Really. And the media only likes to publish shiny, happy autism stories. And that includes the mainstream media, the alternative media, and most of the Internet. You don't get much honesty about severe autism from the blogosphere either; parents who are honest about the difficulties of severe autism are often attacked in the comments section.

I do hope that things get better for you and your family. We did find things became easier as our son got older; hormones were particularly intense during adolescence. I will hold you in my heart and your son in my prayers. And I that tomorrow is better, and the day after even better.

Anyone who dares stick up for vaccine injured children will be viciously attacked by media. Money grubbing media scumbags funded by money grubbing corporate scum will stop at nothing to stomp out people like RFK Jr, Robert De Niro, Trump, etc. The media is the enemy of the people make no mistake about it. If they will commit these atrocious hit pieces on great men like RFK Jr. what do you think they would do to all of us? They called him a sex freak because he has been married more than once. They say he has no credibility because of a drug charge from before I was born, I am almost 40 years old. These are the same media scum who piss on conservative values and then turn around with an unrivaled holier than thou rant against people who threaten their sponsors profits. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Last night on CSPAN I watched Chelsea Clinton and Devi ? (sorry), address a crowd of people there to listen to a talk on global health. Ms Clinton and Ms Devi (again sorry - Ms Clinton's co-author) just finished a book entitled (seriously) Who Rules the World and Why. These ladies want to tell you that the rulers of the world have everything to do with GAVI, the World Fund, the World Bank, and the WHO ;as to why - well you'll have to buy the book.

I wonder, when it comes to public health, what kind of consideration is give to vaccine injury. My guess is none, because according to Ms Clinton, and the organizations her book represents, it doesn't exist.

I could have written this story verbatim. My son is 14 (soon to be 15) and while of course I love him, I loathe autism and what he and what we have to deal with moment by moment and daily. There's no happy ending that I can see. No sweetie pie message that we should just accept and appreciate his "differences. It's not that he has just chosen to live with his fingers plugging his ears. It's that there is sometimes a constant high pitched sound he can't ignore that looks like it's killing him and it's also that the world is so loud and abusive on a sensory level that he has to block it out. It's not that he's your typical 14 year old and is simply frustrated and angry about everything. It's that he wants to say something but he can't speak. It's not that he has simply chosen to draw with crayons slightly different versions of the opening scene of Blues Clues House every waking moment of his life (if given the freedom to do so) it's that his mind is on a loop all day everyday all year. It's not that he likes the clever animation and storylines of the TV cartoon called Richard Scary's Busytown. It's that, even though he is almost 15 years old, 5'7" and 240lbs, it's that he has the mind of an 18 month old. It's not that he was born with that nose that resembles the nose of a man who has been boxing professionally his entire life. It's that his easily triggered anger and frustration over what we think is. Itching but must be everything to him causes him to punch himself over and over very hard in his nose. We have no help from family, community or the government. Thank God my husband and I have each other. If we were ever going to separate for whatever petty reasons people sometimes do over the last 15 years with our neither one of us said it out loud but we know that instead we are choosing to cling to each other because both of us knows the other could NEVER do this alone.

Sorry about this stream of consciousness but we had a very bad day yesterday. But anyway we cling to each other and we cling to our faith that God has a purpose and we carry on in trying to find ways to make him have a better life experience than he experiences today. So sorry about the vent. Thank you for listening :)

I signed the petition. thanks

The feel good stories I see on the Pfizer Channel get to me. They're filtered, cleansed, packaged and doled out like shiny beads at a birthday party.

My close relatives tell me "he looks normal to me". I guess they don't realize he's blind in one eye and can't eat 99% of the foods at Ralphs.
My friends tell me "he'll grow out of it". Really ? Its been 12 years and I'm waiting, hoping.
Realizing that Merck screwed us for 300 dollars in revenue and the person I trusted to take care of my son poisoned him.
On a good note, while he can't play basketball like I did, he can watch the NCAAs with me and side with the Cinderella's. Have a wonderful day sports fans