Autism: How Much Do I Hate Thee..
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Most of you don't know this..but one of my twin sons Christian has Autism..
He was diagnosed at the young age of two. It was one of the most heartbreaking moments of my life even though I already knew that was what was wrong with him. ...
I took the twins for their 18 month shots on schedule..not thinking a thing about it. Now I wish more than anything I hadn't done that. That was to be Christian's undoing. My beautiful boy was so outgoing, smiling all the time, talking, playing with his brothers all the time...
After his shots he was cranky as usual, but then I started to notice changes drastically..Over the course of a couple of weeks he stopped making eye contact with me...or anyone for that matter...he had terrible tantrums, started to flap his hands and twirl, he would crawl on the floor scraping his forehead on the carpet all the way across the room until he had a rug burn, he would turn the toy cars over and spin the wheels on the bottoms of them and stare at them for hours....he stopped smiling and saying MOMMY.
We took him to specialists, who all told us the same thing..."Looks like Autism" ...
I started to think back to what might have caused this...
When did this all begin?
Vaccination Day...those words rang in my head like the liberty bell...