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Rockbrother
13th April 2010, 01:11 PM
Im not sure if this is the right place for it, so sorry to you mods if you have to move it.

I don't know if there are any on this forum that have an Autistic child, or know someone who has one. I have a 5 yr old son, who has Autisim and Im looking for others to share and to learn.

I finally found a place that is helping me to treat him, through diet, and supplements. It has helped, and has given me some encouragement.

One goes through all the emotions when one finds out, ones child is Austic. I've heard and read how other children have responded and have come out of the Fog of Autisim. I refuse to leave any stone unturned in my Quest. I just wanted any to know that they are not alone, an Im more than happy to share, and listen.

Thank you


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Book
13th April 2010, 01:21 PM
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=iw#hl=en&source=hp&q=autism+community&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=bcdf8cbbf06dc4f

There is already a HUGE internet community out there you can join in and share Rockbrother!

:)

Neuro
13th April 2010, 01:51 PM
Have you taken your son to a good chiropractor Rockbrother?

Rockbrother
13th April 2010, 02:15 PM
Hey thanks Book for the link. :)

Yes, we see a Chiropractor once a Month Neuro. He's a great patient. Easy on the Doc.

crazychicken
13th April 2010, 03:52 PM
Im not sure if this is the right place for it, so sorry to you mods if you have to move it.

I don't know if there are any on this forum that have an Autistic child, or know someone who has one. I have a 5 yr old son, who has Autisim and Im looking for others to share and to learn.

I finally found a place that is helping me to treat him, through diet, and supplements. It has helped, and has given me some encouragement.

One goes through all the emotions when one finds out, ones child is Austic. I've heard and read how other children have responded and have come out of the Fog of Autisim. I refuse to leave any stone unturned in my Quest. I just wanted any to know that they are not alone, an Im more than happy to share, and listen.

Thank you


Rockbrother |--0--|


We have twin boys-eighteen years old-severe autism.

CC

Hatha Sunahara
22nd April 2010, 09:44 PM
I have a 24 year old autistic son. Low functioning. Non-verbal. I can feel your pain. If your son has any language, life will be better for you.


Hatha

MNeagle
24th May 2010, 07:41 AM
Britain bans doctor who linked autism to vaccine

LONDON – Britain's top medical group on Monday banned a doctor whose research suggesting a link between a common vaccine and autism caused millions of parents worldwide to abandon the shot for measles, mumps and rubella.

Dr. Andrew Wakefield was the first to publish peer-reviewed research suggesting such a connection, even though the study was later widely discredited. The ruling by Britain's General Medical Council found him guilty of serious professional misconduct.

Wakefield, 53, then moved to the U.S. and set up an autism center in Texas, where he has a wide following, but faces similar skepticism from the medical community. The ruling in Britain only applies to his right to practice medicine in the U.K., not in other countries.

Appearing on NBC's "Today Show" on Monday, Wakefield described the decision as "a little bump on the road." He claimed the U.S. government has been settling cases of vaccine-induced autism since 1991.

Wakefield said the council's ruling against him — which cited alleged unethical conduct in carrying out his research — had been "made from the outset" and vowed to continue his research into the link between vaccines and autism.

"These parents are not going away; the children are not going to go away and I most certainly am not going away," he said.

Two rulings by a special branch of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in March and last year found no link between vaccines and autism. But more than 5,500 claims have been filed by families seeking compensation for children believed to have been hurt by the measles vaccine.

Wakefield has the right to appeal the ruling, which takes effect within 28 days.

Vaccination rates in Britain have never recovered since Wakefield's research was published in 1998 and there are measles outbreaks in the country every year. The disease is also on the rise in the U.S.

Numerous other studies have been conducted since then and none have found a connection between autism and any vaccine.

Britain's General Medical Council struck Wakefield from the medical register Monday and found him guilty of "serious professional misconduct." The council's investigation focused on how Wakefield and colleagues carried out their research, not on the science behind it.

Wakefield has been a central figure in the anti-vaccine lobby and has garnered much support from parents suspicious of vaccines, including some Hollywood celebrities. In February, U.S. actress Jenny McCarthy, who has an autistic son, issued a statement with her former partner Jim Carrey.

"It is our most sincere belief that Dr. Wakefield and parents of children with autism around the world are being subjected to a remarkable media campaign engineered by vaccine manufacturers," McCarthy and Carrey said in February. "Dr. Wakefield is being vilified through a well-orchestrated smear campaign."

Wakefield and colleagues published a study in the medical journal Lancet in 1998 alleging a link between autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.

At the time, Wakefield was working as a gastroenterologist at London's Royal Free Hospital and did not have the ethical approval to conduct the study. He had also been paid to advise lawyers representing parents who believed their children had been hurt by the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

Ten of the study's authors later renounced its conclusions and it was retracted by the Lancet in February.

In 2005, Wakefield founded a nonprofit autism center in Austin, Texas, but quit earlier this year.

In January, Britain's medical council ruled that Wakefield and two other doctors acted unethically and showed a "callous disregard" for the children in their study. The medical body said Wakefield took blood samples from children at his son's birthday party, paying them 5 pounds (today worth $7.20) each and later joked about the incident.

In a statement then, Wakefield said the medical council's investigation was an effort to "discredit and silence" him to "shield the government from exposure on the (measles) vaccine scandal."

In Monday's ruling, the medical council said Wakefield abused his position as a doctor and "brought the medical profession into disrepute."

At least a dozen British medical associations including the Royal College of Physicians, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust have issued statements verifying the safety of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

"I hope this ruling will finally persuade the public and some misguided journalists that Dr. Wakefield behaved irresponsibly," said Dr. Jennifer Best, a virologist at King's College University in London. "(The measles) vaccine is a safe vaccine."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/ap_on_sc/eu_britain_autism_doctor

willie pete
24th May 2010, 07:54 AM
My neighbors have 2 children, both are autistic, the younger one, profoundly, the older one is functioning, but has to attend special classes, I find it strange, it never seemed to be a problem in the past, and if it is related to vaccines, wouldn't it seem that it'd be more prevalent than it is? I don't know, just saying