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Born between 1989-2003?

It's all Tom Verstraeten's fault, the b*****d!

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7395411?rnd=1118937794114&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872

So this is why the younger generation is so full of it. I always knew it wasn't possible for my stepmom to have such a stupid child without help, and I've found my answer!

I like the part where it talks about trying to cover it up instead of eliminating the vaccine.
I also like the part where it says FDA still uses the vaccine, causing 1.8 million autistics.


However, I cant rant much, me being 1988. But, I'm still going to ask mommy dearest a few questions.

Conclusion:
Mercury = Autism


I myself have Aspergers, which on the spectrum, isn't so bad. Just unlucky I guess! *whistles in air*

I'm '83 here, but different countries have different vaccinations and some might still be using the 'Thimerosal vaccines'.
I'm going to ask around anyway, cause the dutch center for healthcare has admitted to have been using Thimerosal in their vaccines in the past, yet has stopped using it from year (undisclosed) onwards. So now to find that undisclosed year.. and figure out whether it has affected me in some way..

*adds another post-it to her wall*

the point is valid but the link is eggagerated. i know othr moms whose children are autistic and they believe from this vaccine. but i still had my son vaccinated. i weighed the risks and decided the greater risk was in not getting the vaccine

My brothers are autsistic, and therefore, we know a lot of other people with autistic kids etc., and there are a few people we know where their children were fine until they were vaccinated.
Anyway, I know some people got together to make some big enquiry into it and the government paid them thousands of pounds to hush it up.

Since there's no link between autism and vaccines that has really been demonstrated, your chiropractor's being foolish.

Anyway, I know a kid whose mother alternates between blaming genetics and the horrific burns he sustained as a toddler for his autism. At about two years of age, he pulled over a cup of hot beverage his Alzheimer's-addled grandmother had left at the edge of a table. He sustained third-degree burns on his upper body, which became infected; after the fever subsided, he was autistic. Now his chest looks like someone took silly putty and kneaded it with their fingertips.

But, y'know, both the vaccines thing and the burns and fever thing rely on a post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy. It seems likely to me that it is mostly genetic. There was some research I stumbled across in Scientific American and the BBC, a few years ago, that said there were phenotypic indicators - people having more than one of them were more likely to be found autistic, in the study. Of course, that brings up the issue of biases and all that.

You all say "autistc" like it's a bad thing! scream Seriously, have you all no ethics?

Have you heard the theory of PANDAS? NIMH PANDAS general info page
PANDAS is Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections = children suspected of developing OCD or tic disorders after strep infections. I find this prospect to be just as frightening. gonk