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MMR @ 3years, safe for my autistic son???

Hayley S

Hi all. Just wana get some opinions on the MMR vaccine.

My son had his first dose at 12months old and I noticed a change in his behaviour straight away. He had started saying 'choo choo' (he loves Thomas the tank), clapping and doing the stars with his hands to 'twinkle twinkle'. Soon after his dose of MMR he stopped all that.

He will be 3years old in December and has only recently started to say 'choo choo' again and a few other words such as cat. he has come on so much which has taken a lot of work from myself, my husband, our families, speech thearpy and speech groups.

I'm frightened that if he has the 2nd dose of MMR it will stop all he's learnt and send him back to the beginning!! 

any feesback or thoughts or suggestions on this would be very much appreciated. I've looked into having the vaccinations done in 3 separate injections... Any thoughts on that either? 

Thanks you. Hayley xxx

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  • IntenseWorld said:

    It's not only Andrew Wakefield who has said it though, and even if he used unscientific methods that doesn't mean this alone can be a sole reason that there is no truth in what he said.  If you read the article I posted about him higher up the thread he explains more about his situation.

    Why would you give a moment's credence to a scientific claim made by someone whose methods are so unscientific he's been struck off?

    The study of autism is a science. If we don't need to use scientific methods to make claims about it, why should I take Wakefield more seriously than the person on the street corner? He has no special claim to truth or believability here, and in fact, quite the reverse.

    And again - he took children's blood, and gave them colonoscopies, without proper medical consent. I can't think why anyone would trust such a person to write a shopping list, much less a scientific paper.

    Alex R (still posting personally)

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  • IntenseWorld said:

    It's not only Andrew Wakefield who has said it though, and even if he used unscientific methods that doesn't mean this alone can be a sole reason that there is no truth in what he said.  If you read the article I posted about him higher up the thread he explains more about his situation.

    Why would you give a moment's credence to a scientific claim made by someone whose methods are so unscientific he's been struck off?

    The study of autism is a science. If we don't need to use scientific methods to make claims about it, why should I take Wakefield more seriously than the person on the street corner? He has no special claim to truth or believability here, and in fact, quite the reverse.

    And again - he took children's blood, and gave them colonoscopies, without proper medical consent. I can't think why anyone would trust such a person to write a shopping list, much less a scientific paper.

    Alex R (still posting personally)

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