Someone who hasn't had vaccines?

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I'd like to know if there was someone who hasn't had thimerosal-containing vaccines but was still diagnosed with an ASD.

I find people's claims that vaccines are evil quite dangerous, so I'm trying to get as informed as possible on how legit these claims are and so far I have found no evidence supporting them. I thought asking this could be interesting.

There is no proof to say that vaccines cause aspergers. I find this horribly offensive (not you, just the idea in general). There was a great Penn and Teller's BS episode on it, which explained it all.

I am not familiar with themerosol vaccines. I think vaccines are crucial to prevent outbreaks of disease. We have already had pertussis outbreaks in the US because of parents too lazy to get their children vaccinated. It would be terrible if we had outbreaks of diphtheria, measles and mumps. Thankfully, polio has been eradicated in the western hemisphere.

It's five in the morning where I live (and I haven't gone to sleep yet) so I might have worded this unclearly, but I do not think that vaccines cause ASDs. I am actually in a discussion with a person who claims this and I'm looking for a simple way to disproof it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo show them this video then...

Nice video
Problem is, he also doesn't believe that vaccines prevent diseases.

Smallpox was the original disease prevented by vaccination.



So the whole world has been cleared of smallpox through vaccination campaigns. That's a huge advance in public health.

I think the onus is on your friend to support his claim that vaccines don't prevent diseases.

I was born in the 1950s. I suspect that the vaccination regime was different back then. I and several other close relatives are on the autism spectrum.

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Yup, my little sister. No vaccines whatsoever, still an Aspie.

I never said that I thought you thought that. I gave you a way.

I didn't had vaccines being very little and still allready showed autistic symptomes from beginning.
Later on I got vaccines, but they changed nothing on my behaviour and I had shown the autistic symptomes even befor without them.

"Common knowledge" is precisely what it says -- common. It is often completely wrong.

There is a very logical reason to be very suspicious about claims that vaccines cause autism -- in autism, some parts of the brain supposedly have more neurons than normal. If this is true, then for vaccines to cause autism, they would have to cause those parts of the brain to grow brand new neurons and that just doesn't happen. There is only one mammal that I know of (but there are probably more) that are still growing neurons for the brain at birth -- the ferret. Even ferrets complete the process of growing neurons within the first few days of life. From then on, we are busy pruning neurons, not growing new neurons.

I had seizures and high fevers after mine when little (the former probably caused by the latter).

I theorize those with ASDs are actually more prone to experiencing side-effects of such (after all, they are more prone to experiencing side-effects from medication, as per eMedicine).

Never had them, because of illnesses and also allergies.

I have AS. Diagnosed.

I'm assuming you mean MMR? correct me if I'm wrong.
I was born and grew up before it was available. Almost died of mumps. Very much ASD. The lies and misconceptions make me very angry.

I glad there is a chicken pox vaccine. Those kids who received it will never have to endure shingles in their later years. In the health field you must have the hepatitis B vaccine. I wish there were vaccines for Hepatitis C and HIV.

A couple of years after going through chemo for stage 4 non-Hodgkins lymphoma I had shingles in my face. Shingles is far far worse than the cancer I got ... ... ask your doctor if you might benefit from the vaccine. If he/she says yes, then take the shot. The way to explain shingles is on a pain scale from one to ten... shingles is a ten. You NEVER get over it. People who had it don't link up and "share" on the www. You don't talk to your kids about what happened... your doctor, if he didn't give you a vaccine will not ask you about your experience... he will want to move on... he/she will NEVER bring it up.