Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Government Admits Vaccines Contributed to Child's Autism

People in the bio-med community have been saying for years that a combination of genetic susceptibility, combined with environmental assaults, push children over the cliff and into autism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html

Finally, The Federal Vaccine Court has conceded that a child's "autism symptoms" were triggered by her vaccines.

While the government has "conceded," they continue to split hairs over words. Calling this child's autism a "mitochondiral disorder," aggravated by the vaccines. Not truly autism. Just looks exactly like it.

Call it whatever you want, but stop inflicting it on our kids and start putting your energies toward helping the ones you've already harmed, rather than protecting your own asses, motherfuckers.

Ahem.

Interestingly, many therapies that have helped Riley are the same therapies used to treat mitochondrial disease, most notably our beloved MB12.

A new day is dawning, people.

I have a long list of medical professionals I am willing to accept apologies from.

Thank you for your herosim in reporting David Kirby. Thank you Huffington Post.

Thank you dear readers for making this mom, feel like someone is listening.

17 comments:

Ga. Peach said...

Good morning Michelle. I finished reading all of your posts last night. You are a blessing to this mom - therefore, also to my daughter. I'm happy to have found you (thanks Kim S.), especially during this period of time when it seems as if the autistic community is making progress, or at least we are finally at a point where it is is it impossible to ignore us. Have a happy day sweet mom.

Drama Mama said...

It has been a long, strange trip indeed.
At last.

Funny, it doesn't make me feel much better.

Robin said...

I am grateful for this small step, and weary when I think of all that's still before us.

Kathryn said...

I read this last night on Kim's site. I am just one big ball of emotion right now: Angry as hell, so apalled, I feel like throwing up, looking at my sweet baby boy and crying...you know, what do you say? I wish we were in line in vaccine court to have our say, but I feel kind of small and helpless and just adrift on this mess the CDC has left us to clean up, and praying that my doctor will know what to do...so tired of it all.

kario said...

LOVE the Huffington Post! What a nice little bit of validation, huh?

And I love that you call them motherfuckers. You go, girl!

Kim Stagliano said...

Funny, the mito expert we see in the Cleveland Clinic offered us the "mito" cocktail (B vits, Carnitine and CoQ10) as if it were some sort of revelation. Our DAN! doc had been recommending that and more for years. Mainstream med is so far behind they are chasing their own asses..... This case is just the beginning.

I think of my three girls with autism and this case rings painfully, and I do mean PAINfully similar. Right down to the seizures.

This brings me no joy - just a tired, can we make to the promised land kind of feeling. No joy.

iportion said...

This is not very surprising nor a smoking gun. In 2000 it actually looked like that vaccination was the culprit because of a 1998 study. The study turned out to have some flaws.

aka Cate said...

You tell them!!

iportion said...

Please forgive me
Sorry I miss read the post it was last November but I heard the test case didn't actually say autism
So we're not going to know the truth for a while.

Michelle O'Neil said...

Rest assured, any studies that come out showing a connection are worked and reworked until the data is skewed in favor of vaccine manufactureres.

Have you read about Simpsonwood?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7395411/deadly_immunity/

The few studies that have been done on autism/environmental triggers have been funded by entities that profit from vaccines.

Studies with huge conflicts of interest are useless. Well, I take that back. They are very useful in confusing the public, which is the purpose for them.

Parents who have enough to contend with are having to fund independent studies on autism.

It's disgraceful.

This case is a huge victory.

Michelle O'Neil said...

BTW...thanks for your support Kario!

I will have you know, I did a quick search and have only used the F word one other time on this blog.

That is great restraint if you only knew how many times I say it in real life (never in front of the kids)and even more how much I think it on a daily basis!

MY OWN WOMAN... said...

Michelle, I have no doubt, with you pushing to find the truth, the truth will be found. Some of us (me) may not like what we hear, but I'm more than willing to listen and learn.

You go girl. You are one strong warrior!

MY OWN WOMAN... said...

One more thing.... I may not always like what I hear....but I always LOVE knowing the truth.

Kim said...

I am listening, absolutely.

I am thrilled that this important first step has finally been taken. And I am so pissed off at the same time, and deeply sorry for all of the pain involved in this journey, for so many children and the parents who love them.

Stacy said...

Loud and clear baby, loud and clear. can I say Motherfucker on your site too? It feels so wrong in a really good way.

Carrie Wilson Link said...

Any time you drop the MF bomb, I'm a listnin'!

There are no accidents, Michelle, you are doing more to change the world than anyone I know. I couldn't be prouder!

Now, get back out there and tell the MFs where to go and how to get there!

SnoopMurph said...

Hi Michelle,

I have been lurking on your site for awhile and after reading this post, I wanted to say thank you.

I am a parent of two little boys, my youngest is 23 months old and diagnosed with autism and he has sensory processing problems. He was vaccinated last July 31 and almost overnight, he lost all of the words he had learned, became unresponsive -it was like I was looking at a different child.

No one can tell me that vaccines do not play a role.

Gratefully, we got early intervention quickly and his progress is amazing-yet he is still almost a year behind and the sensory issues are off the charts especially with any routine changes.

I appreciate your advocacy and honesty.