For Bookwormde:
"Well I have tried to stay out of this one since I have stated my thoughts on the subject before, but I will again since, the facts never get in the way of a good story."
Good story? Sounds like you decided to start off by being insulting. Nice.
"First, I is well accepted that Autism characteristics is a set of genetic neurovariations which when a the proper combination and number and/or combined with other independent factors such as cognitive ability, injury or damages (ether in utero or post birth) or other diseases or genetic anomalies (such as downs syndrome) creates difficulties in areas of development and functioning in neurotypical society to the point where a group of indicative manifestation are adequate to the justify a diagnostic classification."
Almost everyone would agree that genes are a factor.
"Certainly vaccines may cause some damage in some individuals, and in a very limited number of cases may allow an individual to step over the line to a formal diagnosis, whether PDD, Autism, HFA, Aspergers or even some of the secondary alphabet soup classification like ADD, OCD, SID etc."
Very limited number? Now just how do you know it's a very limited number? How do YOU decide that? How do we know exactly how many children? It's impossible to say just one or two or twenty children have autism as a result but that it can't happen to others.
"The reality is that these individuals were already on the spectrum."
You DON'T know that. My daughter was not on the spectrum before she was vaccine-injured. Nobody in my family has ever had anything that ever resembled any kind of ASD. Other family members who received less vaccines also had vaccine injuries, but to a lesser extent.
"It is typically the curebees who think of Autism as a disease that jump on every current fad for a cause of Autism and are looking for a quick fix or someone to blame."
You're making a lot of assumptions. Way to go with the personal judgements. As we address the medical issues that resulted from vaccine injury, my daughter is becoming physically healthier. But a funny thing is happening. She has far less "autistic" traits. Should I just stop what I'm doing and let her go back to being sick and in pain all the time and protect her "autistic" status?
"The study that was done to start this discussion was very poor even by Autism study standards (yes I have read the actual study) and some who were involve in its production and most who reviewed it had rescinded their opinions to a significant extend."
Wakefield's study was never supposed to be the be-all-and-end-all of autism studies.
"I have little tolerance for much of what the drug industry does, but in this case the risk benefit analysis is grossly in the favor of vaccination. This is especially true since even minor supports and accommodation can offset any potential damage that might occur except in the most extreme and damaging cases which using NT damage basis is extremely rare (in the 1/1,000,000+) range."
Oh how I wish "minor supports and accommodations" could have offset the damage that was done to my daughter. No, even "major" supports and accommodations had no effect. She could not even attend school. There was NO appropriate classroom for her, no matter what supports were in place.
I had to homeschool her. When we began addressing the vaccine damage, she needed less supports. We're able to eliminate many of her services. Her doctors and therapists are amazed. Try telling my daughter it's wrong. She loves the fact that she is recovering. Maybe some people like having autism. She doesn't.
