Comments on: Jenny McCarthy on her son`s autism and recovery

By: Jim Carrey will be a Grandfather | Celebrities | Babies Online The Blog

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:52:30 +0000

[...] raise the son of his girlfriend Jenny McCarthy. The couple made their relationship public in 2006. McCarthy’s son Evan is autistic, and she has won praise for helping to raise awareness about the disorder. In 2007 she released a [...]

By: mom3

mom3 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:51:01 +0000

I also don’t believe vaccines cause autism, but I do think they may trigger autism’s onset in someone genetically predisposed to it. I think it’s important parents do their own research. I would be much more for greening vaccines or using an altered vaccine schedule than getting rid of vaccines altoghether. There is a great debate about the possible link between autism and vaccines here Experts from both sides weigh in, and there’s a guy named Kevin Leitch who is really stirring things up by taking on the groups who believe autism and vaccines are linked.

By: Autie Mommy

Autie Mommy — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:59:35 +0000

Hello, I have a 6 year old son who is Autistic and I have a few things to say as a mother with first hand experience. First of all, please don’t call Autism a “disease”. That’s upsetting to me because a disease is something that is thought of as contagious or “catchable”. Autism isn’t contagious, but ignorance is. Secondly, I have to say that I don’t agree with the theory that early childhood vaccines have anything to do with Autism. My son has been different from the day that he was born, well before he ever recieved a vaccine. There are some out there who believe that Autism can be caused by trauma at birth which my son most definately had as he was an emergency c-section, but there is no proof to back this up as with many of the other theories. I would be inclined to follow along with that theory before I would ever believe that vaccines have anything to do with it. I hope that many parents that are raising an autistic child will step back and wait until more is discovered before they point the finger at any one thing as the cause of autism and that those who are uniformed or ignorant about Autism get some knowledge before they speak. Thankyou for the post on Autism and for bringing it to the attention of your readers. The more who know, the more of the puzzle we can fit into place.

By: baby boy

baby boy — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:09:24 +0000

That amazing. I hope we could find a way to help all autism kids.

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:05:49 +0000

It’s interesting that Applied Behavior Analysis (which is the only data based intervention backed by peer reviewed research, that is know to have a great impact on autism) is almost mentioned as an after thought. That intervention may well have been the one that helped Evan.