My nephew has autism, and my sister has taken him to all sorts of doctors. From experts to regular pediatricians. She talks, and talks, and asks questions. Numerous specialists.
From what she has concluded from all this educated info she has received is it isn't simply any of the vaccines, it is the COMBINATION of the vaccines, and too many of them at once when the child is too young, or given during illness.
She had some crappy doctor the first year... she was unable to breastfeed and her child had low immunities and went to the doctor several times the first year of his life. She didn't pay attention at the time (her fault she should have) and turns out everytime he was sick and she brought him in this doctor gave him another vaccine, so by the time he was 18 months he had enough vaccines all the way up til 5 years old. I don't have the info in front of me, and turned out the doctor didn't break any laws but the kid was diagnosed with autism at 2 years 9 months old and she is convinced it all started after one years old because that is when the symptoms started, after the vaccines. Who knows.
She's spoken to so many mothers of autistic kids, has several of them as friends now, and that is the popular consensus.
But kids DO need these vaccines. It is not smart to opt out of them all. But I made sure to not give my daughter the MMR along with the Varicella which she hasn't had yet. They always want to give a flu shot too, which I never had in my life til I was in the hospital post delivery. And I had chicken pox (varicella) as a kid, it didn't kill me.
There is a lot of fraud and deception from both sides of this issue. $$$ makes the world go round though, doesn't it.
