So you're saying the CDC are wrong, now? And all the studies that say autism has increased?? What about all the parents of autistic children? I mean, come on, I know (and not connected through my work), 4 autistic kids just on a personal friends and neighbours basis. There just wasn't any kids like this when I was growing up, not that I met, anyway. In fact, in high school there were only 2 disabled kids (myself due to prematurity and my friend who got severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis after a single measles jab at 2 years old) out of around 600 kids. There was no one with autism or ASD.
In fact, when I was 14 I ended up with an ASD, at that age and despite never having one before that came on directly after BCG vaccination which is incidently how I came to be interested in patient advocacy. Immediately after I was extremely tired and this exhaustion lasted for several days, then I became severely depressed despite the fact I was happy before that and had never had a psych illness. I was dizzy all the time and getting temperatures that would come and go and then a few weeks after the temperatures, my ears began hurting, then I lost my hearing for 2 days which was very scary, then my sound tolerance collapsed completely and it felt like someone turned the volume switch on the world up to maximum. Absolutely terrible pain, you can't even go out because the sound of cars is just so painful, in fact any sound at all. I was also panicked, would jump if someone opened a door, became distressed if plans were changed, totally terrified of open spaces whereas before I wasn't, massive headaches. Eventually I was diagnosed with sensory processing disorders (that are part of ASD) and they said a neuro-transmitter problem meant my brain could no longer interpret things around me correctly. Aside from my disability, I was healthy before and hardly ever needed a doctor, I was happy and confident and my hearing was normal. The exhaustion started the day of my BCG jab and then all the other problems followed. I know it caused it, I know. But of course it wasn't reported because according to the doctor the only thing I could get from it is a sore arm.
So what happened is not on the statistics for how safe vaccines are or not, and that is usually what happens.
You can argue between prevalence and incidence as much as you like, but all you're trying to do is come up with excuses - ways to hide the increase because it doesn't fit in with your viewpoint.
The first port of call is science should be to listen to the parents and observe what is clearly going on around you, before relying on statistics. At the end of the day I could come up with statistics to prove my point and so could you because people can make the statistics say whatever they want to support their conclusion.
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So you're saying the CDC are wrong, now? And all the studies that say autism has increased?? What about all the parents of autistic children? I mean, come on, I know (and not connected through my work), 4 autistic kids just on a personal friends and neighbours basis. There just wasn't any kids like this when I was growing up, not that I met, anyway. In fact, in high school there were only 2 disabled kids (myself due to prematurity and my friend who got severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis after a single measles jab at 2 years old) out of around 600 kids. There was no one with autism or ASD.
In fact, when I was 14 I ended up with an ASD, at that age and despite never having one before that came on directly after BCG vaccination which is incidently how I came to be interested in patient advocacy. Immediately after I was extremely tired and this exhaustion lasted for several days, then I became severely depressed despite the fact I was happy before that and had never had a psych illness. I was dizzy all the time and getting temperatures that would come and go and then a few weeks after the temperatures, my ears began hurting, then I lost my hearing for 2 days which was very scary, then my sound tolerance collapsed completely and it felt like someone turned the volume switch on the world up to maximum. Absolutely terrible pain, you can't even go out because the sound of cars is just so painful, in fact any sound at all. I was also panicked, would jump if someone opened a door, became distressed if plans were changed, totally terrified of open spaces whereas before I wasn't, massive headaches. Eventually I was diagnosed with sensory processing disorders (that are part of ASD) and they said a neuro-transmitter problem meant my brain could no longer interpret things around me correctly. Aside from my disability, I was healthy before and hardly ever needed a doctor, I was happy and confident and my hearing was normal. The exhaustion started the day of my BCG jab and then all the other problems followed. I know it caused it, I know. But of course it wasn't reported because according to the doctor the only thing I could get from it is a sore arm.
So what happened is not on the statistics for how safe vaccines are or not, and that is usually what happens.
You can argue between prevalence and incidence as much as you like, but all you're trying to do is come up with excuses - ways to hide the increase because it doesn't fit in with your viewpoint.
The first port of call is science should be to listen to the parents and observe what is clearly going on around you, before relying on statistics. At the end of the day I could come up with statistics to prove my point and so could you because people can make the statistics say whatever they want to support their conclusion.
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