Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello everyone,
I have a beautiful one year old I am really concerned about, in particular with his lack of imitation, babbling and excitement.
I get lulled into thinking he's ok because he is very capable physically, he is very dextrous, patient and determined. He loves toys, he just doesn't want to share the game with me. He doesn't ever show excitement that isn't about strong physical stimulation, or about recognising a familiar pattern. He does have good eye contact but the only time I feel he's 'there' behind his eyes is when I'm singing a song he recognises and the second I stop it switches off. He does make sounds but to express his state, he doesn't copy any sounds or gestures and I am terrified he won't ever learn to talk.
Worst of all I find it terribly hard work being with him because there's no back and forth which makes me feel I may as well not be there and I find it desperately hard not to just withdraw. I crowbar myself into his games, which he tolerates but does not exactly share, or I leave him to it. If I leave the room, he probably will too but not seemingly to find me, just to move on to another thing he likes to do - climb stairs, open the washer door andbite the mouldy part (sigh...)
I know any suggestion that vaccines are a cause will incense a lot of people who feel this is blaming. But this is not about you, it is my own observation of my own child and there was a definite change. This was not even the MMR, which he's not had as he's not quite one, but after his 4 month boosters, which we gave him at 6 months because he'd been ill. After the booster he stopped sleeping through the night, which he had from 4.5months. He also stopped babbling, although he had been a very chatty baby and people had commented on how like his mother he was. Although he had copied me poking out my tongue at only a few days old, he stopped imitating us completely.
Watching videos of him at 4-5 months is heartbreaking. He is 'chatting' all the time, waving his hands with excitement. It feels like he's turned from a typical, chatty baby into a busy, unnaturally calm robot. My heart is breaking. I don't want to wait and see, I need to know what this means. I need to know if there is anything I can do to bring him into the world of sociability.
Please let me know if any of this seems familiar and if it does, what is the best way to support him, in particular with learning to talk. Thank you.
Hey Scorpion, my name is Al....I sign my posts as Al....I don't need to be called Altruistica.
Thanks for the reply.
Stalin once said (I'm probably paraphrasing......), 'I don't care who has the vote, what matters is WHO counts the vote'.
If you don't understand the analogy it is this.
It doesn't matter who does the research to either exhonerate or call into question the efficacy and safety of vaccines.......what matters is who funds it and by implication, who has editorial control and authorship of the research.
How you can question the motives of these people is beyond me....maybe that's because you're an Aspi and have difficulty what seems to me to be so obvious. I don't know what the rant about global warming, terrorists etc. have to do with this. I don't remember the congressman or doctor ranting on about either of these so why you would try to implicate the specific videos links I placed to global warming or terrorism is unfathomable.
To think the multi-billion dollar business of vaccinations is called into doubt by a professional because she hopes to sell a few books really is pathetic. I don't use that word often, but if she makes even $10,000 from the sale of her book/s, it's probably chicken feed compared to what she could make as a GP being sponsored by Big Pharma. Can you not see that? Can you not see if the central tenet of your argument is that the naysayers are in it 'for the money' your argument falls down at the first hurdle.
As I've said before, I only post on this site for the parents of 'vaccine damaged children'. I don't even recognise the term 'autistic' anymore because of the smokescreen that has been invented by psychiatrists linked to Big Pharma, whereby they have termed anything that is 'out of the ordinary' as 'autistic spectrum disorder /condition'(take your pick if political correctness is your thang).
I seriously wonder whether this forum should have different sub-sections for parents of children, for people diagnosed with Aspergers and for people diagnosed with autism. It seems as if the moment a parent asks about the safety of vaccines an onslaught of pro Government line lobbyists appears. If I had my conspiracy theorist hat on, I'd suspect that maybe Government trolls are afoot on this site. This would also fit in with the comment I made about a year ago when I came to this site after many years of not viiting it, I was surprised at how large it had grown.
It's all about control.
Signed: Al