Are there autistic children who have not had vaccinations?

Question

If so, that would seem to invalidate the theory that immunizations can cause autism. If not, then this strengthens the theory that vaccines are the cause of the increase in autism. I am interested to hear the different points of view on this topic.

Answer 1

Yes. After I was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, my mother decided not to vaccinate my youngest sister, who is 11 years younger than me. She was diagnosed with PDD-NOS, which is also on the autism spectrum.

Answer 2

I did have my children vaccinated with all of the required vaccinations. Unfortunately, both have been diagnosed with PDD-NOS, autism spectrum. My ds did have an allergic reaction when he was 12 months old to one of his injections, they gave him 3 or 4 at a time!, and he screamed for 6 or 7 hours after 3 or 4 injections that day. This was an infant that would rarely cry, and if he did it would be for only a few minutes until he was given a bottle or whatever. This was also a very loud unearthly screaming for hours like he never did before or after that day; I do believe it was an allergic reaction to the thimerosal.

After that he did not develop normally, although he had been developing language-wise before then he stopped talking at that point, until we took him to a speech therapist 18 months later, of course this could just be total coincidence. He has more severe autism than my dd, and dyslexia also.

I saw a debate between two experts on a Meet the Press type show (maybe it was Meet the Press) about a year or so ago. The expert on the show which was in favor of thimerosal admitted it was a neurotoxin and kept repeating that. OK, that's not a good thing, is it? And you're putting that into babies? And with my children they would give them at least 2 or 3 shots at a time, so major doses at a time into a small body. Plus, I researched this and thimerosal is merely a preservative which allows these companies to save a nickel or dime on these shots. What parent wouldn't prefer to pay an extra dime or quarter for a better preservative, and not shoot toxins into their infants or child's bloodstream? To me it does not matter if it causes or caused autism, a toxic preservative should not be in a child's vaccination or really any vaccination for that matter so some company can save a few pennies!

The fact that they have removed them from most immunizations probably speaks volumes. If there had been no danger, they never would have done so. I feel it is safe to immunize my children now except in a few cases in which there are immunizations that still contain thimerosal: flu shots, tetanus, and tetanus-diphtheria vaccines (Td) given to children age 7 and older. Hopefully, they will take the thimerosal out of these few as well! I will not allow my children to have these until they take the thimerosal out of them as well!

Answer 3

It would not neccesarily invalidate the theory as long as the rate of autism in non-vaccinated children was lower than in vaccinated children. Proponents of this theory do not usually believe that vaccinations are the ONLY cause of autism, but they believe it is one of the causes & more importantly, the cause of the increased rate of autism.

But I do not agree with thier theory.

Thimerosal was removed from the vaccinations in 2001. The last lot of vaccinations with thimerosal expired in 2003. That means, if Thimerosal was the cause of the increase in autism rates the rates should have dropped by now. They have not. The rates are apparently still rising.

Asperger's, a high-functioning form of autism was always around but these kids were just labelled geeks, & such. (Some say Bill Gates has Asperger's) Now, Asperger's composes 80% of the kids on the autism spectrum. That alone accounts for a big hunk of the increase.

I also suspect many children were labelled "Mentally Retarded" or "Brain Damaged" as opposed to Autistic. This would especially be the case if the doctor new the mother & felt there was no way she could be a neglectful, unloving mother. Until the 80's, they believed it was such cold, "refridgerator mothers" that caused kids to become autistic.

And ain't it funny that just as the stigma was removed from a diagnosis of autism, the diagnosis rates started to sky-rocket!

Answer 4

Personally, I think that there are very few children with autism that have not been vaccinated. The parents would have to make the choice not to get any vaccinations for thier child(ren). By the time autistic behaviors are noticed, almost all vaccinations are given. Most children are not even diagnosed with autism until they are 2 1/2 years or older. By then the child has already had the required rounds of vaccines. I personally do not think the risk of not getting vaccinated is outweighed by the risk of a child being diagnosed with autism. I know in my case, I would still have my child vaccinated (he IS autistic).

Answer 5

Of course. Autism continues to be on the rise. While I believe there is a link between autism and vaccinations, studies have concluded that this is not the case. I think kids with autism are more likely to react differently to vaccinations. Maybe it triggers the autism more. You can discuss this topic and everyone (particularly people with kids on the spectrum) will have an opinion.

Answer 6

Yes there are, Look at statistics for Autism in the 50s and 60s. I believe it is genetic. As evidenced by our neighbor had an autistic savant son he could do numbers and dates like the rain man. His sister bore a child who had downs syndrome. My own boys are in special ed their father although very successful as a cameraman could not read neither can they and I was a gifted child. Perhaps today we record better statistics and autism was much more hidden in earlier eras but just as 1 in 160 as it is today. If we could study third world countries where immunizations are not available you could get your numbers however those numbers wouldn't even be right because of all the children who would not be counted because they died of measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria and pnuemoccaucas, and polio.

Answer 7

there probably are autistic children who had autism and didn't have immunizations. Autism is also thought to be somewhat linked to genetics. I can't think of any autistic children i know who haven't had any vaccinations, though.
The fact is, they put mercury and aluminum in vaccines. Those aren't good for anyone, but the AMA or whatever approved them because they're getting money from the vaccines. by the time it was obvious that it WASN'T smart to be giving millions of americans yearly doses of heavy metals, millions of vaccines had been made, and they decided not to waste them, to instead continue to use them. How's that for corrupt? Everyone know's that heavy metals are bad for you, yet that is the preservative for vaccines! We are poisoning ourselves!!!

Answer 8

You have to consult serious studies for an answer to this. Maybe try posting your question in another category.