Is anyone here getting any help from NAS ?

Hope,please be assured that my reply was in no way a personal attack on your posting.

As we do not know what the causes of autism are,  and science per se will always be uncertain, the fact that science can only be based on the evidence available at the time, means we need more information to be gathered on the causes of autism, and any possible connection with the increased use of vaccines. As on our present evidence and science, a connection cannot be ruled out. The only research I am aware of does not compare the rates of autism for the vaccinated  against those for unvaccinated, as it is argued that it would be unethical to leave children unvaccinated. This leaves the results of  this research fundamentally flawed. We could compare rates of autism, in groups that have refused vaccination, most particularly the MMR, or the unvaccinated third world- this would remove the flaw, but would practically be very difficult.

On googling the topic it can be seen that there has been a big recent lobby of congress in the USA to investigate the connection.

Logic dictates the huge increase in autism is not just due to greater awareness, there appears logically there must be some modern cause, which is why there should be more research into the causes of  autism, particularly as the labour government plowed so much money into NAS, and yet it restricts its mission to not reseaching into the cause of autism.

The world has always been a frenetic, noisy place, but as a child, meeting my friends' large families, there was never anyone even that different,let alone remotely resembling my daughter's behaviour, and whilst it is possible they may have been concealed out of sight, I'm sure someone would have heard of them, or let slip about their existence. I am not necessarily talking about those  now classed as aspergers/ high functioning autistics, but the severely autistic, who are locked into a world we do not understand, and appear to be now often chemically coshed, and placed permenently in residential care,as society does not wants to cope with, or understand their needs.

Hope,please be assured that my reply was in no way a personal attack on your posting.

As we do not know what the causes of autism are,  and science per se will always be uncertain, the fact that science can only be based on the evidence available at the time, means we need more information to be gathered on the causes of autism, and any possible connection with the increased use of vaccines. As on our present evidence and science, a connection cannot be ruled out. The only research I am aware of does not compare the rates of autism for the vaccinated  against those for unvaccinated, as it is argued that it would be unethical to leave children unvaccinated. This leaves the results of  this research fundamentally flawed. We could compare rates of autism, in groups that have refused vaccination, most particularly the MMR, or the unvaccinated third world- this would remove the flaw, but would practically be very difficult.

On googling the topic it can be seen that there has been a big recent lobby of congress in the USA to investigate the connection.

Logic dictates the huge increase in autism is not just due to greater awareness, there appears logically there must be some modern cause, which is why there should be more research into the causes of  autism, particularly as the labour government plowed so much money into NAS, and yet it restricts its mission to not reseaching into the cause of autism.

The world has always been a frenetic, noisy place, but as a child, meeting my friends' large families, there was never anyone even that different,let alone remotely resembling my daughter's behaviour, and whilst it is possible they may have been concealed out of sight, I'm sure someone would have heard of them, or let slip about their existence. I am not necessarily talking about those  now classed as aspergers/ high functioning autistics, but the severely autistic, who are locked into a world we do not understand, and appear to be now often chemically coshed, and placed permenently in residential care,as society does not wants to cope with, or understand their needs.