Link between Autsim and childhood vaccinations.

My son was talking and using hand gestures when he was 10 months old. He got the MMR at 15 months and a month after that we noticed he never responded to us calling him. He also stopped playing with his toys. He also cried when he heard water sound running. He just changed a lot as time went on. He is 2 now, doesn't talk or use hand gestures, he leaves us guessing when he needs something.. I have said that I thought it was the vaccines just because what I have heard. I don't really know and I might never know... I stopped trying to blame it on vaccines, even though I still feel there is a link, but my main goal in life is my son right now, which by the way was diagnosed with Autism recently and is in therapy and is doing awesome and I wouldn't change nothing about him.. But it does make you think... If vaccines don't cause Autism, then I feel they might set or trigger Autism.. I know there were a few lawsuites with the whole MMR case, and I know the families won the case... alot of it is hush hush... Some say it's a fact that vaccines don't cause Autism, but that's not true.... more facts actually lead to that they do... But that will be a debate for on coming years...

I believe that there is a link. But my question is, How many more children have to be diagnosed before anything is done? My son has autism he was diagnosed with Asperger's this year and he is 10. He has seen every kind of mental health specialist since the start of school. I thought that there was something wrong with him but everyone wanted to classify him as mentally retarded. I never felt he was MR since I had worked with adults with MR for many years and to me he didn't seem like it. My aunt had told me about how her son who is just a few years old than my son was diagnosed with Asperger's and I started researching it and everything I was seeing was exactly like my son. Now, I knew what I was dealing with and started pushing the diagnoses with his mental health providers and I heard the same thing over and over, "oh, Asperger's is the new ADHD, everyone is getting this diagnoses." It is very sad that a country as great as the United States has not been able to figure something out about a health issue that is effecting so many children.

i think its just coincidences because the age that children start showing signs or will start beginning to show signs are the same age range as shots.. and then they are fine one day then become totally autistic the next.. i think the rise in numbers is because a lot of people weren't even known to have had it and just thought of as something else or something.. heck think about the generation my mom is in.. they never thought that they should think anything was wrong with half the people other than calling them slow.. they wouldn't help them or get them diagnosed with anything because it either was unknown or people didn't believe in going to docs.. and in the mid 90s they took mercury out of shots which they think is the link to autism if there is any kind of link.. ah anyways that took all my brain cells for the day

I have heard this as well. From what I have read, studies have shown that this is not the case, but I still wonder. I have a six year old son with Autism. He was born three months premature because I developed preeclampsia. He was in the hospital for four months, on a vent and oxygen. I was informed at his birth that he would most likely have developmental problems due to his prematurity. Recently, he has been diagnoised with autism and I have been doing a lot of research on it ever since. I was thinking about trying the special diets. Have you ever tried this? If so, what was your experience?

Maybe some of the chemicals present in the vaccine give the boy a reverse effect. I heard so many bad feedback from other people about vaccination and the side effect it has on some children. If the boy is normal before he got vaccinated then the vaccine is the main culprit.

I used to work in the Uk in a special school, and I heard many stories about how their children's problems started after vaccinations. When I had my first child, I was adamant that she would not be given the MMR and we spent a lot of money getting the individual shots for those diseases. The thought of not getting her done was not an option. Although I hate giving vaccinations, the truth is that the only time you can afford to not get your child vaccinated, is when every other child is vaccinated instead. This was definitely not the case back when our daughter was born. Now, very few children have had their vaccinations, and in the UK at least, there are problems all over with measles outbreaks. For the record, there was an inquiry into the results of the study which found a link between the vaccinations and Autism, and this inquiry found that the study was flawed. When we had our second child, my husband and I discussed this at length, and gave her the MMR. Thankfully, neither child has developed any problems.