[rubbertramp]

Tom B is soooo droll. Autism is not funny. Maybe you are lucky and your children don't have it. But wait a while, this issue will affect your children's children. Autism is usually not diagnosed initially by docs. They don't like to tell parents the bad news...they lose a customer. Little Joey isn't talking at three and the neighbors kids are way ahead of him. He doesn't hang with the other kids but flaps his hands or lines up his toy cars.

The broadening of this category is not good news. More serious conditions are lumped into the Autism category because it is easier for Medicaid rules to handle it that way. Just think neurolgical and mitochondrial...that is the level that this poison is attacking the children of this country.

[luckystarmom]

I wouldn't say having a daughter with cerebral palsy is funny. I don't think autism is funny either. I'm well aware of the problems of having a special needs child.

I also don't see the research that says that vaccines are the cause of autism. Currently, there is a lot of speculation. I know someone that had a child with autism they thought was caused by the MMR vaccine. On their second child, they did not vaccinate that child. The second child is also autistic.

I'm very thankful for vaccines. I recently went to an old graveyard (the first one in Dallas, Texas). There were so many babies and children that were buried in that graveyard. It was heart-breaking! We are very lucky to have vaccines or many of our children would be dieing.

My husband puts it this way. He says that vaccines are the lesser of two evils. They are risky, but the alternative is riskier.