I think, and this is going by my own childhood as well as what I've seen, that it is not the vaccine that jumpstarts the autistic behaviours, but the stress of the vaccination process. I'm pretty sure I was completely fine after my MMR, or I'd have heard differently from my parents, but I had huge issues with food for a lot of my childhood, which started during a big family holiday celebrating my gran and granddad's golden wedding anniversary. That may or may not have anything to do with it, and I guess I'll never know, but I didn't go a normal baby and come back the changeling these people seem to see us as.
I remember getting a vaccination when I was a few years old. I was being assessed to see how my early development was going, and was given a vaccination at the same time. Unfortunately, my ASD wasn't spotted at the time, and it's only now, roughly forty years later, that I've finally had it diagnosed. But I do remember being distressed by the injection - as lots of young children are - so I wouldn't be surprised at vaccination being a possible trigger of ASD manifesting itself. But the ASD has to be there already for symptoms to be triggered.
I also got fussy with food when I was growing up. I think there were times when I became really quite limited in what I would eat. And I do remember that if there was a slight difference with otherwise familiar food, I would be put off by the difference, and wouldn't want to eat it. Even now, I just tend to stick with familiar food, and am quite the opposite of adventurous.
And I believe I also have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, too.
I think, and this is going by my own childhood as well as what I've seen, that it is not the vaccine that jumpstarts the autistic behaviours, but the stress of the vaccination process. I'm pretty sure I was completely fine after my MMR, or I'd have heard differently from my parents, but I had huge issues with food for a lot of my childhood, which started during a big family holiday celebrating my gran and granddad's golden wedding anniversary. That may or may not have anything to do with it, and I guess I'll never know, but I didn't go a normal baby and come back the changeling these people seem to see us as.
I remember getting a vaccination when I was a few years old. I was being assessed to see how my early development was going, and was given a vaccination at the same time. Unfortunately, my ASD wasn't spotted at the time, and it's only now, roughly forty years later, that I've finally had it diagnosed. But I do remember being distressed by the injection - as lots of young children are - so I wouldn't be surprised at vaccination being a possible trigger of ASD manifesting itself. But the ASD has to be there already for symptoms to be triggered.
I also got fussy with food when I was growing up. I think there were times when I became really quite limited in what I would eat. And I do remember that if there was a slight difference with otherwise familiar food, I would be put off by the difference, and wouldn't want to eat it. Even now, I just tend to stick with familiar food, and am quite the opposite of adventurous.
And I believe I also have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, too.
