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help with pre-school booster

spoons78

Hi all, im new to the community forum so i hope im using it correctly! I am having real problems trying to decide whether or not to give my 4 year old son his pre school booster. He has always shown signs of autism since birth really but after his first mmr injections he lost all his speech and stopped eating, and for years has only eaten a handfull of different foods. Now he is at school and he is coming on so well. He is eating hot food for the first time in years, im starting to hold little converations with him, and he isnt half as frustrated as he used to be. I know people do have strong views on this so any advice or eperience with this i would gladly appreciate and take on board. I personally think there is a link, but i also acept the importance of immunisation but there are many people i know with autistic children that have not opted to give the pre school booster, for fear of regression, and also rightly stating that this is merely a "top up" and its highly likely thats its unnecessary anyway. I am changing my mind daily, so please, any help or advice you can give would be most welcomed.

many thanks for reading

liz :)

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  • 'Experts' told us that Thalidomide was safe for pregnant women, that man wouldn't be able to breathe if he travelled faster than 15 miles per hour, that a heavier-than-air craft could never fly, that lead was perfectly safe in petrol - need we go on?

    So what if immunisation does cause Autism? It's still only about 1-2% of children, and who wouldn't accept that as a failure rate if it's something that protects over 98% of children AND in accepting the failure rate we also accept responsibility for looking after those who HAVE been damaged by it.

    Personaly, I think I was born like it. I think my Mum's Dad, her brother and herself were born like it too I already understand that no genetic link has been proven, but it has been indicated.

    I do not discount that MMR might also be responsible, Homo Sapiens messes with the natural order of things in all sorts of ways and with all sorts of bad results, but also with good ones too, and either way we often don't know untill the results are in... I might also think that Benzine is causing a lot of problems - look it up if you're interested enough - like for instance the rise in Asthma.

    Links can't always be proven, so let's hope that proper, future research gets us the answers that we need. In the meantime, I support any parents' rights to make decisions for their own children. We all have, and use, that right, and I wouldn't want it any other way. I don't tell anyone what to do, and I don't do what anyone tells me to if I diagree with it. I make my own choices, and allow others the respect to make theirs, especially when the whole decision has to be based on such varied and subjective evidence.

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  • 'Experts' told us that Thalidomide was safe for pregnant women, that man wouldn't be able to breathe if he travelled faster than 15 miles per hour, that a heavier-than-air craft could never fly, that lead was perfectly safe in petrol - need we go on?

    So what if immunisation does cause Autism? It's still only about 1-2% of children, and who wouldn't accept that as a failure rate if it's something that protects over 98% of children AND in accepting the failure rate we also accept responsibility for looking after those who HAVE been damaged by it.

    Personaly, I think I was born like it. I think my Mum's Dad, her brother and herself were born like it too I already understand that no genetic link has been proven, but it has been indicated.

    I do not discount that MMR might also be responsible, Homo Sapiens messes with the natural order of things in all sorts of ways and with all sorts of bad results, but also with good ones too, and either way we often don't know untill the results are in... I might also think that Benzine is causing a lot of problems - look it up if you're interested enough - like for instance the rise in Asthma.

    Links can't always be proven, so let's hope that proper, future research gets us the answers that we need. In the meantime, I support any parents' rights to make decisions for their own children. We all have, and use, that right, and I wouldn't want it any other way. I don't tell anyone what to do, and I don't do what anyone tells me to if I diagree with it. I make my own choices, and allow others the respect to make theirs, especially when the whole decision has to be based on such varied and subjective evidence.

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