[savagesusie]

I’ve read that the thimerasol is still in the Hep B vaccinations which they recommend 3 doses in young infants (My children had no such shots) According to my son, they told him it is highly recommended to get flu shots in a 2 mo. old.....the flu shots still have the thimerasol in them. The shots recommended for infants and toddlers have tripled in the last few years. Where are the vaccinations made??? Do we really no what is in them???? Don’t be so trusting.

Mercury poisoning acts exactly like autism.......look up the symptoms of both. They are identical. Also, why would the Amish population have virtually no autism in their population? (that is unless they get their child vaccinated or expose their children to high doses of mercury)?

[SunStar]

...why would the Amish population have virtually no autism in their population? (that is unless they get their child vaccinated or expose their children to high doses of mercury)?

I don't claim to have any answers, but it would seem to me that the Amish have a lot of other differences too, such as diet (little exposure to chemicals), low exposure to electricity, pollutants, etc. None of this (including lack of exposure to vaccines) is evidence towards or against causation of autism.

[exDemMom]

Mercury poisoning acts exactly like autism.......look up the symptoms of both. They are identical. Also, why would the Amish population have virtually no autism in their population? (that is unless they get their child vaccinated or expose their children to high doses of mercury)?

Symptoms can be very similar, even though the causes are drastically different. That means nothing.

More and more scientific evidence is pointing to genetic factors as the culprits in the development of autism. Very often, genes that are common in one group of people exist rarely, if at all outside that group (e.g. sickle cell anemia, which affects black people). If there are very few or no autistic Amish, it is because one or more genes causing autism do not exist in that population. Their environment and/or lifestyle have little bearing on that.

[TomB]

The problem with your theory is that when the first autism/thimerosal scares started, the people responsible had to cover over one gaping hole. That is that there is a great uptick in autism cases in the '80s, yet thimerosal has been in vaccines for decades prior. Why did the increase only happen then?

To paper over the problem, they stated that it wan't the thimerosal per se, it was the increased amounts that children were getting with the increased number of immunizations then.

So you can't just look at a few shots and cry "autism!". You have to explain why autism was next to unknown in the 70's, with childred getting a much larger exposure to thimerosal than now.

[SoftballMominVA]

The Amish do have autism in their population, but since there is a smaller pool of people, their numbers are small. Also, the Amish may or may not care if someone has mild autism. Does it really matter if you can communicate well with others if your life is about farming and being mostly isolated anyway?

The Amish have other health issues that don't get a whole lot of attention - problems arising from inbreeding. Plus, look at their lifestyle - no TV, no video games, no processed foods, no electricity, and lots of outside exercise.

It's impossible to point out one difference between the Amish and the English (that's us) and say that is the cause of various problems. It's much more complicated than that