Autism Discussions

I've been talking on FB about the Autism article and I've even just had someone post a comment here...someone I don't even know!  A first for me.

In the end, I can not believe that all of us...parents, people living with Autism, strangers who see Autistics, governments who are being foreced to doll out money do not have the same goal.  Fundamentally we all want to live the lives we choose; not the one we have to settle for.  Why does this concept have to some sort of Uptopian ideal?  I'm not asking for chocolate covered strawberries to grown on the wall...I just want my daughters to be happy.  Hell, I want my son to be happy too.  I just want to know that when there is a problem there is a way to deal with it.

Please don't confuse this as some rant crying for everyone to come help me.  I don't need your charity; neither do my girls.  But if millions of dollars can be poured into a pill to help cure low libidos why can't that same amount go into helping my children; ALL CHILDREN be able to live a normal, happy life.  One that let's them contribute to society.

So much time, money and effort has been wasted, just WASTED on this fighting amongst ourselves.  It's the vaccines!  It's wheat!  Gluten!  It's Mommy not wanting baby - yes, I was asked that for Connor's first evaluation.  It's Mommy taking Zoloft during pregnancy.  It's an excess of peanut butter! 

No more.  Please.  No more fighting.  Here it is.  I'm sorry, it wasn't vaccines, I wish it was...it would have been great to have some tangible to blame.  Something concrete to hold accountable...but this wasn't it.  And now there's so mcuch dischord that we're all arguing with each other and the pool is being diluted.

That's it you know.  The pool of resources has been diluted so much that it wouldn't shock me to find out there's a government grant to study Jimmy Hoffa's role in the Autism plot to tamper with drinking water. 

Enough.   There has to be a singular source of educated people...people who do more than study at the University of Google to sit down and really cut down the list of what we're looking at and parents, caregivers....we have to come together and support it.  So scientists, researchers, doctors - give us something concrete to believe in.  Our childrens lives are on the line. 

Well, well, well

So the study that came out and said that Autism was links to MMR immunization shots was done under flawed conditions.  The paper that printed it, The Lancet, had to retract it.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/02/lancet.retraction.autism/index.html?hpt=T1

My, my, my.  So Autim isn't caused by the shots.  I'm going to refrain from my usual tirades and just say this, "NOW CAN WE ALL STOP FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER AND FIND OUT WHAT DOES CAUSE IT?!

It would be nice if ONCE, just ONCE I could enjoy my daughters without having to scrutinize their every action and wonder how I need to teach them to do things the "right way"  I do this so they can survive childhood and not be traumatized by other children for being different.  I would LOVE to only have to explain something one time because even at 5 1/2  Connor needs constant repetition for even the simplest of concepts to sink in.

So please, now can we all just get along?  Let's fight the problem; not each other.