My son met all his milestones and was a smart child. Then at age 19 months old I got him vaccinated for MMR. After receiving this vaccine he cried off and on all day and night for 2 weeks and ran a fever. It was if he had colic, but you don't get colic at 19 months old. He never had this reaction to any previous vaccines, so I knew something was wrong. I kept calling his doctor over that two week span. The nurse who kept taking my call said it was nothing to worry about. When that 2 weeks of an irritable crying baby was over, my son lost all his words and didn't talk anymore. He also didn't walk again for 2 months. He stopped smiling, laughing and his whole personality changed. My family members kept asking me what was wrong with him. He was no longer the child they knew. Later down the road he was diagnosed with autism. My doctor said that autism appears around 17 to 19 months of age and he didn't think the vaccine had anything to do with it. I'll never believe that! My son was fine before the vaccine. After the vaccine, he runs a fever and Cry's day and night, stops walking, and loses all his words, and I'm suppose to believe that it is just a coincidence? His whole personality changed. I know in my heart that the vaccine caused it!
Luz Olguin - 6 years ago
I believe the tons of vaccines our children are getting at the same time is what is causing autism. If you think about it that is a ton of crap you're putting at once in a tiny little body three to six shots at a time and not all of our children are able to handle that. We don't have any history of autism in mine nor my husband's side of the family. My first two children have autism and my son does not. I decided to spread out his vaccines. Yeah it was more doctor visits but I didn't want to take the chance. When it
was time for the MMR that was the only one he got and we went back two weeks later to get the rest. My son is four now and no sign of autism whatsoever. I wish I would have done the same with my other two. I didn't know you could spread them out. Maybe it was coincidence but that's what I would have done.
cheryl riba - 6 years ago
Since up until recently autism was usually diagnosed at 2 years or older and vaccines were administered at about that time that could be the reason. Spread out your vaccines if you are concerned.
Me - 9 years ago
Don't believe so my daughter is not vaccinated she has autism my son is vaccinated and he does not
kathleen HF - 9 years ago
Autism is an umbrella diagnosis covering many diverse conditions that result in similar symptoms. Not all allergies are the same. Not all people have the same reaction to medication. i believe their is a genetic predispostion. just as someone can go their whole life without triggering an allergic reaction to shellfish or without expressing a cancer gene, because they missed the environmental trigger. There are many documented cases with the CDC where kids have had an immediate reaction to vaccines. Those families have won financial compensation. That being said my normally developing son was given 5 shots containing 13 viruses while he was running a fever for an ear infection. i let the doctor brow beat me into complying instead of waiting. Within a couple days he was gone. I have pictures to prove it. i believe he had an autoimmune response. i think we crashed his already challenged immune system. New research indications show mothers inflammation levels during pregnancy are likely triggers. we have to stop trying to make all Autism one cause. Even Diabetes has many causes.
jackie - 9 years ago
WHEN YOU WATCH YOUR CHILD GO FROM LOOKING AT YOU , SPEAKING AND SMILING TO A BLANK STARE , AFTER VACCINES , THEN TELL ME , YES THE VACCINES HAVE CAUSED AUTISM , LETS BE GLOBAL THINKERS ,
THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES WHOM HAVE NOTHING , NO CDC VACCINES , CHECK THE RATE OD AUTISM ???? 0%
WHERE WE HAVE THE CDC AND 1 IN 48 CHILDREN HAVE IT , ?????
STOP BELIVING A GOVERMENT THAT LIES , KILLS AND CHEATS ITS OWN TO PROFIT ,
THE HISTORY SPEAKS FOR IT SELF ,
TUCKEEGEE
AGENT ORAANGE
THE NYC SUBWAY TESTING IN THE LATE 60-70
BELIVE THEY WONT , WHEN I KNOW THEY WILL , MORE AFRICAN AMERICAN BOY ARE EFFECTED THEN ANY OTHER ????? WHY
YES SOME PPL HAVE GENITIC AND HISTORY OF MENTAL DEFECTS ,
BUT THE MAJORITY OF CASE DONT , SO WHERE IS IT ALL CONNECTED TO ,
VACCINES,
STOP DEFENDING THE CDC THEY ARE KILLING GENERATION ONE CHILD AT A TIME
Jacolyn Dean - 9 years ago
I feel sorry for anyone that believes this. Science has shown us again and again that there is no connection yet some people have ti grasp at straws.
Lynette Kenerson - 10 years ago
I believe autism is genetic. I also agree that some ingredients in vaccines may trigger the autism to become active.
Maggie - 10 years ago
No no no no and no. I'm an autism major and there is no link with vaccinations. It's genetics and the environment.
sara - 10 years ago
personally i think its in the genes, my son has it along with my brother and 3 consins on my husbands side.. and when we look back at our families there seems to be alot of asd traits
mike sicard - 10 years ago
i have been researching RF and EMF waves those are radio frequencies from hydro meters cell phones wifi cord less phones. since 1946 there was 1 in 250000 reported case this is the age radars and such devices rely took off.in 1970 there were 1 in 10000 in 1980 there were1 in 2000 in 2010 there were 1 in 67 i find that very alarming .there is many studies that suggest we should take precautions but our government seems to have a blind eye over all the findings. in Russia you can not own a cell phone under the age of 18 they have been taking down towers near schools.not just there but in many countries.i worked with many challenged individuals i understand what parents are going threw.i was broth up to prevent is better than to treat as much as possible .i find know one is really trying to reduce the rate of Autism .shameful.i remember something a handicap told me once all i would like is be like everyone else or at least be respected.i think we owe them that much.
Rachel - 10 years ago
I believe it's a combination of environment and genetics Maybe the shots have a factor but I do not believe so. I have 2 girls 18 months apart both vaccinated, one has Autism and one doesn't. Autism has such a wide range of symptoms and severity that it seems like more and more are diagnosed. 25 or 30 yrs ago a kid sitting in the corner banging their head and wouldn't or couldn't respond to simple commands would of been diagnosed as (severely retarded). Sorry about the (R) word... Or a exceptionally gifted child who has some social issues wouldn't of been diagnosed with Aspergers. I feel Autism spectrum diagnosis as whole needs to be reassessed. There is too much of a range to lump all these kids as Autistic. Just my opinion.....
Florence Burnes RN BSN - 10 years ago
I say yes because nothing in medicine is 100% black or white. I have a son with Autism and a daughter that is a straight A honor roll child both of which were vaccinated. Every person's body is different and reacts differently to the same medication. Could it be a cause yes it could, do I think it is the cause no I don't.
Moira - 10 years ago
I say no as I vaccinated both my children going down the private single route of only giving them the MMR individually rather than the NHS route of all done at the same time. My daughter has never shown any signs of Autism, yet my son has been diagnosed when he was 7 years old. The only reason why we went down the single route and paying for the priviliage,is because we weren't sure what to make of the findings of the link between the vaccine and Autism and yet we have a son with the condition.
Autumn Lower - 10 years ago
I have done a lot of research in college, and over the internet. I also have a 7 year old boy with ASD and ADHD, and a 5 year old girl with Asperger's syndrome, and ADHD. I have also viewed many comments about the subject from other parents. Not only have immunizations been to blame for autism, but other things as well. Such as, pregnant obese mothers, and heated plastic from baby bottles, etc. There is no known cause for autism, and researchers claim that genetics have the highest statistics. My son was born stimming as soon as he was placed on my stomach. Now he is 7 years old, and still stimming. He was born flapping his hands, and still flaps. My daughter, as soon as she got to the age of when she was supposed to be talking is when I noticed she was delayed in speech, and was showing signs of Asperger's. The problem with this issue is people are not recognizing the signs, or do not know what autism is when their children are born, and are only reading into the signs they see during development when they should be doing more and notice other children doing more than their children. They do not realize that a child's behavior could be an indicator. They do not want to face the facts that their child could be born different, and want to place blame on something for causing them to be the way they were born. It is just that their brains are wired differently which happens during development in a mother's womb, caused by DNA. People are reading more into sources that are not credible believing what is said, and creating a big mess. Instead of fueling this mess, how about we all just focus on what is important, which is getting the resources we all need to help our children thrive!
Dana - 10 years ago
Vaccines are not the ONLY cause for autism, and the reason why I believe that autism is mostly caused by vaccines is...My little precious man was achieving his milestones before he was supposed to even. He was holding his own bottle by himself by 4 months old. He was already starting to say a few phrases by 7 months and he was trying to walk by the time he was 12 months old. He had his 18 month old vaccinations with the MMR shot. He started running a high temperature so we gave him some fever reducer to help it go down as advised by his pediatrician. The very next day the hell began. He no longer tried to talk or tried to walk. He didnt start walking again until he was 2 yrs old. He is almost 4 years old now and he is completely non verbal, he is not potty trained, and he has meltdowns. He went from eating crab legs and mashed potatoes, and chicken and a very wide variety of foods to only eating Sonic's chicken strips and french fries and occasionally potato chips. So once you see the changes in these children after the vaccinations...maybe...just maybe...one day these kids wont have to be tortured for the rest of their life with this...ok...this is my rant for the day.
stephanie willetts - 10 years ago
i have 4 sons.. one of which has moderate classic autism.... all 4 had vax...as well as this my son was showing signs of asd well before his vax..........also.....Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 1957) is a British former surgeon and medical researcher, known for his fraudulent 1998 research paper in support of the now-discredited claim that there is a link between the administration of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, and the appearance of autism and bowel disease.[1][2][3]
Four years after the publication of the paper, other researchers' results had still failed to reproduce Wakefield's findings or confirm his hypothesis of a relation between childhood gastrointestinal disorders and autism.[4] A 2004 investigation by Sunday Times reporter Brian Deer identified undisclosed financial conflicts of interest on Wakefield's part,[5] and most of his co-authors then withdrew their support for the study's interpretations.[6] The British General Medical Council (GMC) conducted an inquiry into allegations of misconduct against Wakefield and two former colleagues.[7] The investigation centred on Deer's numerous findings, including one that autistic children were subjected to unnecessary invasive medical procedures,[8] such as colonoscopy and lumbar puncture, and that Wakefield acted without the required ethical approval from an institutional review board.
On 28 January 2010, a five-member statutory tribunal of the GMC found three dozen charges proved, including four counts of dishonesty and 12 counts involving the abuse of developmentally challenged children.[9] The panel ruled that Wakefield had "failed in his duties as a responsible consultant", acted both against the interests of his patients, and "dishonestly and irresponsibly" in his published research.[10][11][12] The Lancet immediately and fully retracted his 1998 publication on the basis of the GMC’s findings, noting that elements of the manuscript had been falsified.[13] Wakefield was struck off the Medical Register in May 2010, with a statement identifying dishonest falsification in The Lancet research,[14] and is barred from practising medicine in the UK.[15]
In January 2011, an editorial accompanying an article by Brian Deer in BMJ identified Wakefield's work as an "elaborate fraud".[1][16][17] In a follow-up article,[18] Deer said that Wakefield had planned to launch a venture on the back of an MMR vaccination scare that would profit from new medical tests and "litigation driven testing".[19] In November 2011, yet another report in BMJ[20] revealed original raw data indicating that, contrary to Wakefield's claims in The Lancet, children in his research did not have inflammatory bowel disease.[21][22]
Wakefield's study and his claim that the MMR vaccine causes autism led to a decline in vaccination rates in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland and a corresponding rise in measles and mumps, resulting in serious illness and fatalities, and his continued warnings against the vaccine have contributed to a climate of distrust of all vaccines and the reemergence of other previously controlled diseases.[23][24][25] Wakefield has continued to defend his research and conclusions, saying there was no fraud, hoax or profit motive
SarahJeanne - 10 years ago
I do not vax, and yet one son has ASD and the other Asperbergers/ADHD. So, no. vaccines do not cause Autism.
Pamela Winter - 10 years ago
Those that are saying NO, either don't have children that they watched change over the course of time after having vaccinations, or are in denial, believeing what the healthcare industry and govt. are telling them, but truth is, if it ever really got out that vaccinations could cause autism, under the right conditions, people wouldn't vaccinate their children, because of the risk, and then we would soon see disease and illnesses that we thought we'd licked, make a comeback... So, think about it... What do ALL these children that are "all the sudden" becoming a statistic, because they are part of the rise in autism over the past 10 yrs. or so, have in common? What's the one thing?... Hmmmm.. vaccinations???
My son met all his milestones and was a smart child. Then at age 19 months old I got him vaccinated for MMR. After receiving this vaccine he cried off and on all day and night for 2 weeks and ran a fever. It was if he had colic, but you don't get colic at 19 months old. He never had this reaction to any previous vaccines, so I knew something was wrong. I kept calling his doctor over that two week span. The nurse who kept taking my call said it was nothing to worry about. When that 2 weeks of an irritable crying baby was over, my son lost all his words and didn't talk anymore. He also didn't walk again for 2 months. He stopped smiling, laughing and his whole personality changed. My family members kept asking me what was wrong with him. He was no longer the child they knew. Later down the road he was diagnosed with autism. My doctor said that autism appears around 17 to 19 months of age and he didn't think the vaccine had anything to do with it. I'll never believe that! My son was fine before the vaccine. After the vaccine, he runs a fever and Cry's day and night, stops walking, and loses all his words, and I'm suppose to believe that it is just a coincidence? His whole personality changed. I know in my heart that the vaccine caused it!
I believe the tons of vaccines our children are getting at the same time is what is causing autism. If you think about it that is a ton of crap you're putting at once in a tiny little body three to six shots at a time and not all of our children are able to handle that. We don't have any history of autism in mine nor my husband's side of the family. My first two children have autism and my son does not. I decided to spread out his vaccines. Yeah it was more doctor visits but I didn't want to take the chance. When it
was time for the MMR that was the only one he got and we went back two weeks later to get the rest. My son is four now and no sign of autism whatsoever. I wish I would have done the same with my other two. I didn't know you could spread them out. Maybe it was coincidence but that's what I would have done.
Since up until recently autism was usually diagnosed at 2 years or older and vaccines were administered at about that time that could be the reason. Spread out your vaccines if you are concerned.
Don't believe so my daughter is not vaccinated she has autism my son is vaccinated and he does not
Autism is an umbrella diagnosis covering many diverse conditions that result in similar symptoms. Not all allergies are the same. Not all people have the same reaction to medication. i believe their is a genetic predispostion. just as someone can go their whole life without triggering an allergic reaction to shellfish or without expressing a cancer gene, because they missed the environmental trigger. There are many documented cases with the CDC where kids have had an immediate reaction to vaccines. Those families have won financial compensation. That being said my normally developing son was given 5 shots containing 13 viruses while he was running a fever for an ear infection. i let the doctor brow beat me into complying instead of waiting. Within a couple days he was gone. I have pictures to prove it. i believe he had an autoimmune response. i think we crashed his already challenged immune system. New research indications show mothers inflammation levels during pregnancy are likely triggers. we have to stop trying to make all Autism one cause. Even Diabetes has many causes.
WHEN YOU WATCH YOUR CHILD GO FROM LOOKING AT YOU , SPEAKING AND SMILING TO A BLANK STARE , AFTER VACCINES , THEN TELL ME , YES THE VACCINES HAVE CAUSED AUTISM , LETS BE GLOBAL THINKERS ,
THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES WHOM HAVE NOTHING , NO CDC VACCINES , CHECK THE RATE OD AUTISM ???? 0%
WHERE WE HAVE THE CDC AND 1 IN 48 CHILDREN HAVE IT , ?????
STOP BELIVING A GOVERMENT THAT LIES , KILLS AND CHEATS ITS OWN TO PROFIT ,
THE HISTORY SPEAKS FOR IT SELF ,
TUCKEEGEE
AGENT ORAANGE
THE NYC SUBWAY TESTING IN THE LATE 60-70
BELIVE THEY WONT , WHEN I KNOW THEY WILL , MORE AFRICAN AMERICAN BOY ARE EFFECTED THEN ANY OTHER ????? WHY
YES SOME PPL HAVE GENITIC AND HISTORY OF MENTAL DEFECTS ,
BUT THE MAJORITY OF CASE DONT , SO WHERE IS IT ALL CONNECTED TO ,
VACCINES,
STOP DEFENDING THE CDC THEY ARE KILLING GENERATION ONE CHILD AT A TIME
I feel sorry for anyone that believes this. Science has shown us again and again that there is no connection yet some people have ti grasp at straws.
I believe autism is genetic. I also agree that some ingredients in vaccines may trigger the autism to become active.
No no no no and no. I'm an autism major and there is no link with vaccinations. It's genetics and the environment.
personally i think its in the genes, my son has it along with my brother and 3 consins on my husbands side.. and when we look back at our families there seems to be alot of asd traits
i have been researching RF and EMF waves those are radio frequencies from hydro meters cell phones wifi cord less phones. since 1946 there was 1 in 250000 reported case this is the age radars and such devices rely took off.in 1970 there were 1 in 10000 in 1980 there were1 in 2000 in 2010 there were 1 in 67 i find that very alarming .there is many studies that suggest we should take precautions but our government seems to have a blind eye over all the findings. in Russia you can not own a cell phone under the age of 18 they have been taking down towers near schools.not just there but in many countries.i worked with many challenged individuals i understand what parents are going threw.i was broth up to prevent is better than to treat as much as possible .i find know one is really trying to reduce the rate of Autism .shameful.i remember something a handicap told me once all i would like is be like everyone else or at least be respected.i think we owe them that much.
I believe it's a combination of environment and genetics Maybe the shots have a factor but I do not believe so. I have 2 girls 18 months apart both vaccinated, one has Autism and one doesn't. Autism has such a wide range of symptoms and severity that it seems like more and more are diagnosed. 25 or 30 yrs ago a kid sitting in the corner banging their head and wouldn't or couldn't respond to simple commands would of been diagnosed as (severely retarded). Sorry about the (R) word... Or a exceptionally gifted child who has some social issues wouldn't of been diagnosed with Aspergers. I feel Autism spectrum diagnosis as whole needs to be reassessed. There is too much of a range to lump all these kids as Autistic. Just my opinion.....
I say yes because nothing in medicine is 100% black or white. I have a son with Autism and a daughter that is a straight A honor roll child both of which were vaccinated. Every person's body is different and reacts differently to the same medication. Could it be a cause yes it could, do I think it is the cause no I don't.
I say no as I vaccinated both my children going down the private single route of only giving them the MMR individually rather than the NHS route of all done at the same time. My daughter has never shown any signs of Autism, yet my son has been diagnosed when he was 7 years old. The only reason why we went down the single route and paying for the priviliage,is because we weren't sure what to make of the findings of the link between the vaccine and Autism and yet we have a son with the condition.
I have done a lot of research in college, and over the internet. I also have a 7 year old boy with ASD and ADHD, and a 5 year old girl with Asperger's syndrome, and ADHD. I have also viewed many comments about the subject from other parents. Not only have immunizations been to blame for autism, but other things as well. Such as, pregnant obese mothers, and heated plastic from baby bottles, etc. There is no known cause for autism, and researchers claim that genetics have the highest statistics. My son was born stimming as soon as he was placed on my stomach. Now he is 7 years old, and still stimming. He was born flapping his hands, and still flaps. My daughter, as soon as she got to the age of when she was supposed to be talking is when I noticed she was delayed in speech, and was showing signs of Asperger's. The problem with this issue is people are not recognizing the signs, or do not know what autism is when their children are born, and are only reading into the signs they see during development when they should be doing more and notice other children doing more than their children. They do not realize that a child's behavior could be an indicator. They do not want to face the facts that their child could be born different, and want to place blame on something for causing them to be the way they were born. It is just that their brains are wired differently which happens during development in a mother's womb, caused by DNA. People are reading more into sources that are not credible believing what is said, and creating a big mess. Instead of fueling this mess, how about we all just focus on what is important, which is getting the resources we all need to help our children thrive!
Vaccines are not the ONLY cause for autism, and the reason why I believe that autism is mostly caused by vaccines is...My little precious man was achieving his milestones before he was supposed to even. He was holding his own bottle by himself by 4 months old. He was already starting to say a few phrases by 7 months and he was trying to walk by the time he was 12 months old. He had his 18 month old vaccinations with the MMR shot. He started running a high temperature so we gave him some fever reducer to help it go down as advised by his pediatrician. The very next day the hell began. He no longer tried to talk or tried to walk. He didnt start walking again until he was 2 yrs old. He is almost 4 years old now and he is completely non verbal, he is not potty trained, and he has meltdowns. He went from eating crab legs and mashed potatoes, and chicken and a very wide variety of foods to only eating Sonic's chicken strips and french fries and occasionally potato chips. So once you see the changes in these children after the vaccinations...maybe...just maybe...one day these kids wont have to be tortured for the rest of their life with this...ok...this is my rant for the day.
i have 4 sons.. one of which has moderate classic autism.... all 4 had vax...as well as this my son was showing signs of asd well before his vax..........also.....Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 1957) is a British former surgeon and medical researcher, known for his fraudulent 1998 research paper in support of the now-discredited claim that there is a link between the administration of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, and the appearance of autism and bowel disease.[1][2][3]
Four years after the publication of the paper, other researchers' results had still failed to reproduce Wakefield's findings or confirm his hypothesis of a relation between childhood gastrointestinal disorders and autism.[4] A 2004 investigation by Sunday Times reporter Brian Deer identified undisclosed financial conflicts of interest on Wakefield's part,[5] and most of his co-authors then withdrew their support for the study's interpretations.[6] The British General Medical Council (GMC) conducted an inquiry into allegations of misconduct against Wakefield and two former colleagues.[7] The investigation centred on Deer's numerous findings, including one that autistic children were subjected to unnecessary invasive medical procedures,[8] such as colonoscopy and lumbar puncture, and that Wakefield acted without the required ethical approval from an institutional review board.
On 28 January 2010, a five-member statutory tribunal of the GMC found three dozen charges proved, including four counts of dishonesty and 12 counts involving the abuse of developmentally challenged children.[9] The panel ruled that Wakefield had "failed in his duties as a responsible consultant", acted both against the interests of his patients, and "dishonestly and irresponsibly" in his published research.[10][11][12] The Lancet immediately and fully retracted his 1998 publication on the basis of the GMC’s findings, noting that elements of the manuscript had been falsified.[13] Wakefield was struck off the Medical Register in May 2010, with a statement identifying dishonest falsification in The Lancet research,[14] and is barred from practising medicine in the UK.[15]
In January 2011, an editorial accompanying an article by Brian Deer in BMJ identified Wakefield's work as an "elaborate fraud".[1][16][17] In a follow-up article,[18] Deer said that Wakefield had planned to launch a venture on the back of an MMR vaccination scare that would profit from new medical tests and "litigation driven testing".[19] In November 2011, yet another report in BMJ[20] revealed original raw data indicating that, contrary to Wakefield's claims in The Lancet, children in his research did not have inflammatory bowel disease.[21][22]
Wakefield's study and his claim that the MMR vaccine causes autism led to a decline in vaccination rates in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland and a corresponding rise in measles and mumps, resulting in serious illness and fatalities, and his continued warnings against the vaccine have contributed to a climate of distrust of all vaccines and the reemergence of other previously controlled diseases.[23][24][25] Wakefield has continued to defend his research and conclusions, saying there was no fraud, hoax or profit motive
I do not vax, and yet one son has ASD and the other Asperbergers/ADHD. So, no. vaccines do not cause Autism.
Those that are saying NO, either don't have children that they watched change over the course of time after having vaccinations, or are in denial, believeing what the healthcare industry and govt. are telling them, but truth is, if it ever really got out that vaccinations could cause autism, under the right conditions, people wouldn't vaccinate their children, because of the risk, and then we would soon see disease and illnesses that we thought we'd licked, make a comeback... So, think about it... What do ALL these children that are "all the sudden" becoming a statistic, because they are part of the rise in autism over the past 10 yrs. or so, have in common? What's the one thing?... Hmmmm.. vaccinations???