Reply #96: I'm not going to tell you that your own personal observations [View All]

[Pithlet]

and feelings about your own child are wrong, seabeyond. I don't really blame any parent who saw the change, and noted it right around the time they got the vaccinations, and immediately had questions. It's not as though I immediately rushed to the defense of vaccines, myself. I immediately wondered about it when I started reading about these parent's stories, in the beginning. But, at some point, we (and I mean the collective we, not you. I really don't blame you personally for your feelings on this, nor any parent of an autistic child who has suspicions, really) have to acquiesce to overwhelming evidence. If there were a direct link to the vaccines, there would be something that would point to that link, by now. Because, like I said, it makes no logical sense to trade a known risk for a slight maybe risk that isn't backed by any known solid evidence, and is only based on a correlative link that was blown into a panicked hysteria.

Quite simply, the parents who make the decision to not vaccinate aren't thinking it through with all the evidence available and are giving appropriate weight to the risks involved. As a parent with an autistic child, I tell them. Get your kids vaccinated. It's worth the non-existent risk you'll have a kid like mine.

Mine is a joy, too. Tripply odd. I'd describe my son that way, too. His teachers and other caregivers always tell me how much he makes them laugh every day. He's fun, even if it can be a challenge at times. It was a long road, and a lot of hard work, but it's been worth every bit of it. :)