Childhood vaccines

It is really frustrating when your child has something wrong with them and you don't know why. And I agree with you, if it's ever proven that the shots cause autism or anything else. Something should be done about it. I know you said your son is fairly high functioning. I know many autistic children have a lot of difficulty communicating and can't really expess emotions well. That must be really hard. My children will run up to me at the oddest times and hug and kiss me and tell me they love me and that is the greatest feeling. I couldn't imagine not having that.
 
Larissa,

We went through a period when we couldn't hug or touch him, and that broke my heart because he was such a cuddly child. He would scream when he hugged him. It rarely happens now, but there are times when you've just got to be careful with how much pressure you put on him.

It's funny because he loves to have his aunt crush him against the couch. I understand the fact that some love that enveloped feeling (Temple Grandin's books are excellent reads!). His aunt is a pretty big girl, and he always asks her to 'crush' him. So he'll lay on the couch, and she'll sit in front of him and lean back against him. He's content.

He's got good verbal communication, but sometimes it's when he's not sure how to say something that people get confused with him.

I got a short flash I wrote about him. I was thinking of researching the market for publication. It made me cry to read. It made others cry. It made his grammie and grandma great cry... It still makes me cry when I read it. But I was trying to release the emotions I have about him in it.

Anyway...I'm babbling way off topic. Forgive me.

Lila
 
I'm glad he'll let you hug him now. And that great that he's communicating fairly well. My son has muscle weakness in his face, mouth and throat so he has a speech delay. He would get very frustrated because he can't tell you what he wants. We started teaching him to sign and that really helped. He's starting to talk some now but unless you know him it's hard to understand what he says. He's actually the reason we got so into fish because he loved the tanks at the children's hospital.
 
Oh do I understand what you mean. If people didn't know my son, they would think he was a brat. Heck, even some family members tend to forget to give him a little more time and understanding for his actions. I'm not saying I allow him to get away with bad behavior.

But still, he's a really friendly child. He loves everyone. Which is hard to deal with when kids he thinks are his friends are mean to him. It really breaks his heart.

Lila
 
My son really is a brat. Ha, ha. We're working on that.
 
Lila--I did apologize for that, and I apologize again. It was also not directed at you or at anyone else on this forum.

My experience has always been with people who try to blame their problems or the problems of their loved ones on a third party, often one tha has little to do with their actual problem or one that was a factor. I admit I have been proved dreadfully wrong by the people on this forum.
 
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My children are both fully vaccinated. I read as much as I could on the internet and such, and decided, for me and my family, I wasn't about to risk my kid dying of a disease that she could have been vaccinated against.

My girls have also both had the new Prevnar. Again because I felt it was worth it.

For my kids, I've always paid and extra co-pay to break up the shots so they don't have to get 4 at once. I'll have the doctor do two at the checkup appointment, and then I'd bring them back a week later to get the other two.

It's worth $20 to me so they don't have to endure 4 shots in one day.
 
Lila Boffins said:
When going over family members to see where the genetics could have come from, as I said, it's amazing what can link to an autistic child. My father is an engineer, my brother a tax accountant, another brother that is incredibly intelligent with numbers and electronics, my husband is excellent with numbers and so on...traits as these can attribute to autism.

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But I still have that slight wonder if immunity shots played a part as well. That thought will always linger there.

It doesn't really matter to me now, but if it is ever officially linked to autism, something should be done to prevent it from happening. Right now, I've just got to do for my son what I've got to do. That's all that matters.

Not too long ago, I read a report in which doctors said that induced labor was causing autism. My last born was the only one I was induced with, and he's not autistic...as far as I know. :confused:
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My middle child, a son, has some personality tendencies that are a little odd. He's not autistic, and he doesn't have asperger's syndrome, but he really doesn't do well with crowds, strangers and new situations. He likes to have predictable routine, and gets very anxious when we're going somewhere new/unknown to him. He's a very finicky eater, and is sensitive to touch. He also has a hard time remembering people's names, and gets confused when people look very similar to one another...he's said to me before that "the arms in his brain push names away." I can see him developing a number of phobias...he's already showing fear of water. But he's got amazing artistic ability. At around 2 years old, he was already drawing full human figures with detail: fingers, hair, teeth. At 4.5 he started doing portraits of family.

There is some history of fussiness/finickyness on both sides of the family. There's a strong math ability on my side: many engineers including my father, who has a genius math ability. And there is strong artistic ability on both sides. Also some history of depression. This could have to do with why my son is like he is, but I still go back over my difficult birth with him (which ended up with epidural, augmentation, and finally c-section) and how he was treated in hospital afterwards (separated from me for hours, and given antibiotics against my wishes, which has negative impact on an infant's digestive tract.) Plus I did vaccinate him, and will always wonder if that played any small part in it.
 
Those are definitely on the autism spectrum. My son has been diagonosed PDD (NOS) with ADD and High Funcitional Autism.

It's a very, very wide spectrum.

Lila
 
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