Vaccines and Autism

I married a beautiful women from Malaysia in the late 80’s. We had a son about a year later. Still married after all these years.

At the time, I was working as a Design Engineer for a pharmaceutical company. As part of the job to do technology transfer, I accepted a position to do technology transfer from Ann Arbor, MI to a manufacturing plant in Ponce, PR.

My son was a year old at the time and he was developing normally and meeting all his milestones as a toddler. He was able to recognize objects, point and interacted with other toddlers in games of hide and seek.

Before we left the US, Keith was one year old & got caught up on his MMR and boosters as being typical parents, we were of course informed by the pediatrician that Puerto Rico could harbor some dangerous pathogens.

When we arrived there, it took a few months to even find a home near my place of work and we finally found a place in a neighboring town called Yauco about 10 miles from my workplace.

We bought a house and of course there were a lot of adjustments on our part due to the fact that they spoke Spanish there and the culture was different & getting oriented to the new environment & new job took some time.

Everything was going well for the first few months but then we started noticing odd behavior for my son Keith. He seemed to have lost his ability to interact with the other young kids who came over to our house to play. He also started engaging in repetitive behavior, like opening and closing closet doors repeatedly. He no longer made eye contact with us.

One time we let him wander on his own to see when he would look for Mom and Dad to come and get him. He just kept wandering further and further, unlike a normal toddler. He was in his own world and seemed to be cut off from recognition of parental affection and attention.

A neighbor who was a veterinarian even gave us a cat & my wife hoped that a pet would help but it did not do any good. We checked his hearing in a lab, that tested out ok. We took my son to a psychologist and she diagnosed Keith as being autistic because Keith would not make eye contact nor follow her finger when moved from left to right.

We spoke with my mom about Keith’s behavior and we filled out a multiple-choice questionnaire from Bernard Rimland who founded the Autism Society of America. The results pointed to the fact that our son was autistic.

At that point, we had been in Puerto Rico for only a year but we knew we had to get back to the US as the treatment for this rather rare illness of autism was not very good in that small country. We moved to the Minneapolis area as we had family there and it was relatively easy to find a job for a technical person like myself. There are also a lot of programs for autism there as well.

While back in MN, Keith was officially diagnosed as autistic and we started him on a “Behavioral Therapy” program as being the best practices for helping to “overcome” autism. We complied as little was known about autism and any websites would list it as genetic in origin, etc

There were many other parents at the time with children of varying degrees of autism that we met in a group for as a parents support group.

We moved close to the Univ of MN and engaged college students in helping to train Keith. His therapy consisted of training him first of all to come when called to sit in a chair for at least a minute or two to do his exercises.

Keith was doing as good as a severely autistic person could do and was able to understand directions and speak in groups of 3 or 4 words in sentence at a time. He had the typical issues for an autistic child such as an extended belly, picky eating, poor sleep habits, tantrums, jumping up and down while flapping his hands. He also engaged in watching videos, mainly of kids singing and dancing as his favorites.

He started going to kindergarten, eventually grade school & was “mainstreamed” in the classroom but had a person who could bring him to a breakout room if he became too disruptive.

It was around the age of 4 that rumors were getting out and about that vaccines caused autism. I did not think this could be true though as all the websites at the time said vaccines had nothing to do with autism.

While in grade school, they actually gave Keith additional vaccines as part of the school immunization program. Keith started having grand mal epileptic seizures around the age of 10. We were quite frightened. The web and doctors told us that when going through puberty, that this can trigger seizures in autistic children, so we did not think of any possible association with additional childhood vaccines.

Fast forward to today, Keith is a 33 year old adult who still lives at home with his parents. We have been reducing his medications to minimal amounts over the past few years with good results as a lot of them had increased his appetite and now he is as a reasonable weight & in excellent health. He eats a pretty good diet when compared to most people his age.

It has been really tough for us all these years dealing with situations where Keith would go several nights sometimes without sleeping. He also had very poor immunity for most of his younger life, having severe constipation, very frequent asthma & very poor eating habits. Most of these are resolved now.

I retired right before the Covid pandemic. I could not believe what I was seeing with all the doctors getting decertified and censored for having a different opinion from the “official” narrative. That rang alarm bells for me and as a Technical Analyst, I started digging for what the heck was going really going on.

I read the The Real Anthony Fauci and Turtles All The Way Down during that period to get a better understanding of what was going on. Was heavily engaged in debates on Facebook as I had become very “Pro-Natural Immunity” at that point. Was stunned that Facebook was censoring me, the vaccine injured and shadow banning the Anti-Vax group I belonged to.

I left Facebook and joined a social media site called “MeWe” (little to no censoring).

Started a few groups there and have been posting out to other groups as well on the dangers of vaccines as part of the problem is the gaslighting and brainwashing of the public. Have been including many of Chris’s postings from VaxCalc & have other groups & individuals posting to my group and vica-versa, it is a great way to learn.

At this point in my life, am retired and looking forward to supporting young parents especially so that they don’t have to go through what we went through. Young parents are especially vulnerable to the “pro-vaccine” message as they want to do the right thing for their children but are led down the wrong path by the establishmen

One other major issue is that the search engines on-line are useless when it comes to obtaining unbiased information on vaccines. Per “Turtles All the Way Down”, these sites get their info from the corrupt Big Pharma publication process. That is why we need sites like MeWe and VaxCalc.org, to help get the sword of the truth out to those who are thirsty for it.

On MeWe, I started a group called "Vaccines Cause Autism", if you want to check it out, the link to join is below:

www.mewe.com/join/vaccinescauseautism

As Charles Spurgeon so eloquently argued in his 1876 sermon on the topic of overcoming evil with good, “You must either be overcome of evil, or you must yourself overcome evil; one of the two. You cannot let evil alone and evil will not let you alone. You must fight, and in the battle you must either conquer or be conquered.” The means of “fighting” in our case is to present the truth and help people make decisions for the benefit of their families and loved ones.