Motrin was Re: biomedics...children's tylenol.

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> I dont mean to interupt, but you said your son never had any

vaccines/antibiotics/meds. Is this NEVER not even once? And he is

spectrum? Occaisionally this comes up, a parent stating that there

child has never had any of these. I find this very interesting!! Can

you tell me if your family drinks tap water, around pesticides ever,

do you eat organic or store processed, in public schools/daycare? I

sure hope you dont mind me asking, but this is out of the norm of what

some of us consider to be the culprit of our childrens issues! Just

trying to understand all this!! Jennie<><

Jennie, no I don't mind you asking. I wonder about this myself.

Before I had kids I worked as an ABA consultant and we made those

choices with our kids because I am convinced that vaccines (and other

sources of toxicity) do play a role in autism. I think that our

family's experience actually supports the toxicity theory. I'll give

more details below, but in a nutshell, my son Avery is genetically

predisposed, has serious gut damage (probably from Motrin, an atypical

source of damage) and has heavy metal toxicity (from arsenic, again an

atypical source). Depending on when the arsenic exposure happened, it

may also be a contributing factor in his gut damage.

While I consider him to be on the spectrum, his ASD is extremely mild

and he is mostly recovered without much more than diet and some basic

biomedical stuff- we didn't put him in a special preschool or do a

home program. He does get speech and OT, and I do work with him at

home a lot, my point is that he hasn't needed the intensity of

intervention that autistic kids usually do. He is very social and

friendly (he wasn't always though) and not bound by routines or

rituals. His doctors have told me that they think he would've been

completely autistic if he had been vaccinated, which I also believe.

He doesn't actually have a diagnosis, but he fits hyperlexia extremely

well. Even though Avery's behavioral profile is very mild for the

spectrum, his biomedical profile is very " spectrumish " IMO.

And now for more details- yes, neither of my kids has had any vaccines

at all, including no shots while I was pregnant. Avery had no

antibiotics or anything (besides the Motrin), except for one instance

after he began to recover from his regression when he got medicated

eardrops with thimerosal, antibiotics, and steroids (I'm still kicking

myself about that). He had a severe reaction to these (our doctor

said it was seizure-like) which we only gave one time. He was also

exclusively breastfed until about 6 months old and born at home, so I

know there was no meds or vaccines given then. He also didn't get an

ultrasound in utero. I only have one dental filling. We drink

filtered water and eat as organic as we can with very few processed foods.

But, he is definitely a genetically predisposed kid- there is celiac,

MS, asthma, allergies, chemical sensitivities, diabetes, and lots of

gut issues and other autoimmune issues on both sides of his family. I

am convinced that my uncle has Asperger's. Dh and I are both dyslexic

and ADD. I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome and may have fibromyalgia.

Both of my kids are clearly enzyme-deficient (older ds is extremely

phenol sensitive and looks pretty ADHD and dyslexic too). Another

piece of this is that we live in Oregon, which has a higher than

average rate of ASD (at least it did last time I looked), which many

people think is because it rains so much that lots more pollutants

like airborne mercury get washed down on us. Both of my kids did have

higher levels of mercury than I was expecting without the vaccines, so

maybe that's how they got it. Also, Avery ate dirt as a toddler

(about the time he was regressing I think), and maybe it was

contaminated? Maybe that's where the arsenic came from?

I think I was going to say more but gotta go, the kid have the

flu...Jennie, if you have more questions I'm happy to answer them. I

am obsessed with getting the bottom of the mystery of this epidemic

and it sounds like you are too.

-Sierra