Welcome to Rasmus's website. Click on flag for Danish version

Start page
About the father
The suspicion
What is autism
Waiting for Diagnose
Choosing a treatment
A dignified life
Rasmus's development
ABA as we see it
After 1½ Year
Feedback form
Links
photos
Restricted Acess

 

The Suspicion.

Rasmus developed normal until he was 15 months.  Approx. 3 weeks after the MFR vaccination he lost his, according to his age normal, vocabulary completely and from then on he could only emit monotone sounds. Was it the MFR vaccination, which caused this? This, I obviously have researched a little. There are many different theories around on the Internet, which speaks for or against that vaccinations may be contributing to cause autism, for example, mercury poisoning from the vaccination preservative (Thimerosal). This substance, however, was phased out in Denmark in the early 90 s, so this eliminates this theory. Others claim that the virus from the vaccination may cause autism, which the Danish SERUM Institute scientific reject. I can not conclude anything with certainty, but one thing is certain. If I were to have more children, they would not have the MFR vaccine in such an young age and certainly not the 3 vaccines in one go. The vaccines should be given one at the time with at least a couple of months in between each of them, in order to avoid to stress the immune system unnecessary.   

Well, back to Rasmus. As Rasmus lost his language, he also lost at the same time some social skills. From that in all areas to have been "top grades" of child nurse,  then it became difficult to get in eye contact with Rasmus. Rasmus started to play in a monotone manner. For example, he could lie on the floor and move the door back and forth for a very long time while he carefully studied the door. Similarly, he was with his fingers spinning the wheels of the toy cars instead of driving them around on the floor. Rasmus's play was completely without fantasy and all his games were now based on repetitious games based on movements. We got massive problems with Rasmus's sleeping pattern. In periods Rasmus would  simply not sleep at night. We also experienced growing frustration from Rasmus, when he could not explain himself to us. Sometimes it resulted in a rage where he could fall down on the floor and knock his head down into the floor.

 

Startside | Start page | About the father | The suspicion | What is autism | Waiting for Diagnose | Choosing a treatment | A dignified life | Rasmus's development | ABA as we see it | After 1½ Year | Feedback form | Links | photos | Restricted Acess

Dette Websted blev sidst opdateret 25. august 2008