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29 Jul 2010, 11:29 am

er no, it has been proven that there is no link between autism and vaccines



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29 Jul 2010, 11:31 am

I became autistic after masturbating too much.



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29 Jul 2010, 11:35 am

No way. My brothers were vaccinated too and they didn't get it. My dad claims he got it too as a kid and so did my mom and they didn't get it.

It's one of the common blames parents have for their child's autism just like my mom claims my ear infections made me this way because at the same time I was sick as a baby, I stopped developing normally according to what I read in my medical reports. Even my own husband thinks autism is environmental and something in life has to cause the condition such as sickness in your baby years. He says you can have the gene but something in the environment has to cause you to have it. It's just one of the arguements we have. I say if children got their autism from being sick a lot as a baby, then they aren't truely autistic then according to my mother and my husband says it's just a label so the child gets the help they need.



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29 Jul 2010, 11:38 am

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I don't know if any vaccinations came me this sh**, but I definately wasn't born with it. I learned to sit up at 6 months, I crawled by 9 months, and I walked by 11 months. I can't remember when I said my first word, but it was the average age. And I was a typical toddler. I was a happy toddler, but I did cry like the average toddler - I wasn't placid at all. I used to whine like a normal toddler. I was no different to what my NT cousin was when she was a toddler. The preschool assistants didn't notice anything different about me at all, and I didn't delay any social development either.

But it all seemed to start the day I started school, after 4 years of no AS symptoms signals at all. I was frightened apparently, my social development decreased, I suddenly lacked in intelligence with maths, I was an awkward student at school, I had to get assessed and
statemented. . . And then I was all of a sudden diagnosed with this AS sh** - which now I feel confused about because I seem to show more Dyspraxia symptoms. (Along with high anxiety, but my mum suffers from that bad too, and she's an NT). So I do not know what triggered off this AS over night. I was an NT on Sunday 4 September 1994, and converted into an Aspie on Monday 5 September 1994 onwards to this very day (2010).

Was this a horrible act from god?

Quite the necro-bump there.

It's likely that you always had asperger's but it wasn't until the change going from preschool to school that it began to show itself. AS is contextual, so while you probably felt comfortable around your family, etc, the symptoms didn't become obvious until you became stressed from the change involved in attending school.



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29 Jul 2010, 11:47 am

I also got it through the cootie shot.



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29 Jul 2010, 11:48 am

*circle circle dot dot now you got your cootie shot*


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29 Jul 2010, 11:50 am

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
*circle circle dot dot now you got your cootie shot*


*circle circle square square now you've got it everywhere*



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29 Jul 2010, 12:04 pm

I never had MMR. Got measles vaccine, been sick with rubella and never got mumps and not vaccinated. However, when I was a kid there was a real risk of really severe illness so we got a lot of other shots, against polio, TB and diphtheria.

According to my parents I started out as a very gifted child, talked early and all that junk. Then at 3 my attitude changed. I have no idea if my skills changed but I don't think so. They claim I became ill tempered and such. I have no idea in what way. I have no recollection of it either, and I do remember quite far back in life. Something does occur even in normal children as their brains changes. Most people only remember back to around age 3-4 and before it was thought memory just didn't work prior. But then they realize a 3 year old can for example remember his 1 year old birthday. It seems like the brain goes through stages of development and setbacks.

Maybe something similar happens around age 18 months.



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29 Jul 2010, 12:06 pm

I got diagnosed at 16 in 1998 and had my Measles jab a couple of years before.



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29 Jul 2010, 12:18 pm

I was probably born with it, as I also had a form of epilepsy as an infant that somehow went away when I was at least 2. The only thing that was unusual about vaccines for me is that the mumps portion of MMR didn't work for some reason, so I had mumps when I was 10.


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29 Jul 2010, 12:18 pm

Nope, I was born autistic.


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29 Jul 2010, 12:51 pm

Coincidentally my mother stated that my traits started to show up when I was 2 shortly after my vaccinations. I said correlation doesn't equal causation.



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29 Jul 2010, 12:56 pm

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Coincidentally my mother stated that my traits started to show up when I was 2 shortly after my vaccinations. I said correlation doesn't equal causation.


That's a fact many people seem to miss.

I was severely over vaccinated as a child because I was in the foster care system and my shot records were often misplaced or lost. However, I do not believe this over vaccination caused my symptoms. I had those long before I was in the foster care system. Pretty much from birth, actually.


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29 Jul 2010, 5:27 pm

Joe90 wrote:
I don't know if any vaccinations came me this sh**, but I definately wasn't born with it. I learned to sit up at 6 months, I crawled by 9 months, and I walked by 11 months. I can't remember when I said my first word, but it was the average age. And I was a typical toddler. I was a happy toddler, but I did cry like the average toddler - I wasn't placid at all. I used to whine like a normal toddler. I was no different to what my NT cousin was when she was a toddler. The preschool assistants didn't notice anything different about me at all, and I didn't delay any social development either.

But it all seemed to start the day I started school, after 4 years of no AS symptoms signals at all. I was frightened apparently, my social development decreased, I suddenly lacked in intelligence with maths, I was an awkward student at school, I had to get assessed and
statemented. . . And then I was all of a sudden diagnosed with this AS sh** - which now I feel confused about because I seem to show more Dyspraxia symptoms. (Along with high anxiety, but my mum suffers from that bad too, and she's an NT). So I do not know what triggered off this AS over night. I was an NT on Sunday 4 September 1994, and converted into an Aspie on Monday 5 September 1994 onwards to this very day (2010).

Was this a horrible act from god?


My son met all those milestones but I still believe he was born AS. Just because it wasn't noticeable until elementary school does not mean it wasn't there. He was, most definitely, different as a toddler, just in way that people interpreted at the time as "future genius" instead of "autistic." In smart kids it can be very hard to see the AS until a co-morbid gets in the way, which is why my son's AS was discovered when he was 7.


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08 Aug 2010, 1:35 pm

DW_a_mom wrote:

My son met all those milestones but I still believe he was born AS. Just because it wasn't noticeable until elementary school does not mean it wasn't there. He was, most definitely, different as a toddler, just in way that people interpreted at the time as "future genius" instead of "autistic." In smart kids it can be very hard to see the AS until a co-morbid gets in the way, which is why my son's AS was discovered when he was 7.


I wasn't even a smart toddler. In fact, they noticed some delay in some of my development and thought I had learning difficulties at first. I was always behind the rest of the class, especially with maths and english - and I was also a slow thinker too, which isn't an AS trait. The doctors now say I have AS but not the ''intelligent'' side of it - more so the ''anxiety'' side.

Wish I had high IQ too.



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08 Aug 2010, 1:35 pm

Yeah, forget about all the flapping I did as a little kid, and the late speech, it was definately the vaccinations that did it. Definately.