Re: Thimrosal-Autism-Childhood Vaccinations Originally Posted by pagandeva2000 
I am in the middle of cross training and in a few weeks, I may be going to pediatrics for two weeks. I discovered a few months ago that my son's half-brother has autism. His father told me that he believes that this developed due to childhood vaccinations received at 6 months of age-stated that his son was developing normally until he received his vaccine series, came home and had seizures.
Of course, he is asking me questions and I am quite sure I will encounter them again. What is the deal about the relationship between thimrosal (sorry if I spelled it wrong) and autism? I am reading, but the information is complicated to me. I would like resources that I can share with parents making this decision and to be proficient enough to at least be able to explain if asked. Thanks!
Part of me, does think there is a link between childhood vaccinations and autism.
However, on the same side, I can also see where it's also easy to blame the vaccinations as virtually all kids receive them, receive them very often after birth, so when signs pop up, "Yup, it was the vaccine."
When it could have just as easily been...when their personality really started to develop...and that was when they noticed he really wasn't like other babies.
It's really, really hard to tell.
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Greatly appreciated! I sent a copy to my work email in order to make copies.
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