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'It’s no secret…
When your child is diagnosed with autism, you want answers. You want to know what might have caused your family’s world to be turned upside down. Plans for childhood forever altered, dreams rearranged and priorities permanently shifted.
Some people however, believe that what we want is someone/something to blame. Something to pin our frustrations upon. They say we go looking for a
connection. A connection to vaccines. A link that might assuage our pain.
connection. A connection to vaccines. A link that might assuage our pain.
But this is simply not so. Not in our in our house. I went looking, setting out
not to find a link, rather to ease my worry. To reassure myself it could not be the vaccines we gave to her.
not to find a link, rather to ease my worry. To reassure myself it could not be the vaccines we gave to her.
You see, linking autism to vaccines would be blaming no one but ourselves.
We were the ones who took her to the office. My husband the one who signed the consent forms… It was us.
Finding a link to vaccines would place the blame squarely on our own shoulders and is a much harder pill to swallow than a genetic condition. After all if it were genetics, we could simply blame our parents — and really, who doesn’t like to blame their parents for their life’s challenges?!'
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