tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888467463194468789.post387453623234564955..comments2023-03-26T05:15:01.285-03:00Comments on the other end of the spectrum.: The Vaccine Theory: My Opinion.pinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03021125367864652400noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888467463194468789.post-29891975996068664192008-12-26T16:30:00.000-04:002008-12-26T16:30:00.000-04:00I can't take the vaccine theory very seriously. I'...I can't take the vaccine theory very seriously. I'm willing to suspend disbelief enough to consider it's a possibility that in <I>some</I> cases it might be a contributing factor to... what? "Autism-like behaviors" I think they call it. I dunno.<BR/><BR/>But beyond that, as someone who's been described by other people who live with me and certainly spend enough time around me to observe how I act every single day, in order to gauge if there is something "unusual" about me... and I've been described as anything from "Aspie" to "... you're pretty autistic" (their words, not mine) by them, I find it pretty funny that I never received a vaccination for <B>anything</B> (my parents' choice, that was, I'd like to actually change this and get vaccinated someday when I can afford it).<BR/><BR/>I don't believe in astrology but I enjoy looking at things like that anyway, so I checked it. Some things were accurate, other things were extremely inaccurate (such as claims that I'm "very outgoing" and "always finish a project").Fleecyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04918012773089750636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888467463194468789.post-64289975174685456382008-12-26T07:56:00.000-04:002008-12-26T07:56:00.000-04:00Astrological charts will not be identical but will...Astrological charts will not be identical but will have similar characteristics. Much of mine http://lizziek8.blogspot.com is very right on, and I can bend the rest to fit me...<BR/><BR/>The best way to see if the information is accurate is to have someone else read it and see if it describes you. Although we do see ourselves better than most NTs, I think, we still have some filters.LizzieK8https://www.blogger.com/profile/17418678210403829598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888467463194468789.post-31746204997968049162008-12-25T09:06:00.000-04:002008-12-25T09:06:00.000-04:00The vaccine theory found prominence when it was di...The vaccine theory found prominence when it was discovered that injecting rodents with mercury could produce similar effects to autism.<BR/><BR/>They went one further with a flawed hypothesis...<BR/><BR/><I>Mercury poisoning creates autistic traits therefore all people displaying autistic traits must have mercury poisoning.</I><BR/><BR/>In applying this generalization, they had to account for autistic children who were diagnosed at an early age. What could they have in common? - how could they have been exposed to Mercury.<BR/><BR/>Finally, they settled on immunization as a cause because in the US, some early (long-discontinued) immunizations actually did contain mercury.<BR/><BR/>Of course, they ignored the fact that Mercury was NEVER in Australian vaccines - yet we have a high number of autistic children in the country.<BR/><BR/>BTW: I'm not a big believer in astrology but my chart does seem spot-on and very aspie. <BR/><BR/>You can <A HREF="http://life-with-aspergers.blogspot.com/2008/12/astrological-reason-for-aspergers.html" REL="nofollow">see my results here</A>. I'd be interested to find out if you got exactly the same.Gavin Bollardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13833941398375568706noreply@blogger.com