I am Phyllis Wheeler, mother of two kids with Asperger's: "Mike" and "Shannon."
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Phyllis | December 23, 2008
And you’re right about the current immunization schedule: the FDA never looks at cumulative effects (essentially, drug interactions) for approval. I wouldn’t want to risk my kid getting polio, etc – or endanger a immuno-suppressed kid by not immunizing mine. But a lot of these vaccinations are done in infancy simply because they’ve got the kid then and can’t guarantee that they’ll be able to immunize the kid later.
Phyllis | December 22, 2008
What is it about the vaccines that may cause autism? I don’t know. It may be the sheer amount of viral material that overwhelms the young system. Having toxic levels of mercury in the shots during the 1990s didn’t help.
Phyllis | December 19, 2008
Personally I think our doctors need to decide whether they are part of the solution, or part of the problem. If they are doing what they are trained to do, that is give many, many vaccines to tiny children in an untested protocol, then they are part of the problem.
Phyllis | December 16, 2008
This year, he participated in the meeting, agreed or disagreed with proposed ideas about what he needed, and was generally pretty proud of himself. With good reason.
Phyllis | December 2, 2008
I do wonder what it will be like when he is an adult. Buying and keeping track of these supplements is very expensive and somewhat time consuming. I hope he recovers to the point that he is able to do it himself.