Please Get Involved!

I just got an email from Lisa Ackerman, the head of Talk About Curing Autism. Here is the current statistic, autism now effects 1 in 100 children. No longer is it 1 in 150 but now 1 in 100! Are we really to believe that we are having such a genetic explosion that we've gone from 1 in 10,ooo just a few years ago to 1 in 100? Should we really believe that environmental factors like vaccines aren't playing a role? Do you realize that in the current Obama Health Care Bill autistic children and their treatments are not covered? How do our lawmakers look around and say we want to help everyone and yet ignore 1 in 100 children? How do our current lawmakers and some medical insurance companies say we will cover a MRI and the drugs to sedate your child for the MRI but we won't cover ABA therapies or any biomedical therapies that have proven track records of helping our children on the spectrum. How much longer can we, the families of these children, go on being ignored by many in the medical community and the lawmakers representing us? How many children being diagnosed with autism will it take to get noticed and get the respect and answers that we need. When are we as parents, families and friends of children with autism going to be heard.

I don't know about you, but I am tired of the excuses. Tired of the research done by the CDC that says there is no link between autism and vaccines and yet they own patents on many of the vaccines they say are safe! Umm...conflict of interest?! Doctors like Dr. Paul Offit, the chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, also the author of 'Autism's False Prophets' and the co-inventor of a vaccine against the rotavirus. Interesting that a doctor who invented a vaccine finds there is no connection between vaccines and autism. All the autism community has asked for is honest research and an open and honest dialogue. Difficult to get when money is wound so tightly in the mix. Am I upset? You bet I am! I am furious and I hope you are too. I would ask you to write your legislatures, state and national, petition your insurance company to pay for the treatments that are working for your child and take part in and register for your own personal advocacy account with The National Autism Association. It's simple, click HERE to register. Also, please read this sample of a letter going out to the CDC. I think it is a powerful message to all who read it.

Faith, Hope & Healing-

Melissa