How to Prevent Autism by Dara Berger

Author:Dara Berger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2017-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT VACCINES

with Jack Lyons-Weiler, PhD

There is absolutely no way that I could get through writing a book on preventing autism and not bring up the subject of vaccines. It’s almost as if the two are synonymous these days. Vaccines seem to conjure up some of the most intense feelings in people no matter what side you are on, and for that reason I don’t want to spend too much time on my own opinion. The point of this chapter is to give you information and data that is not readily disclosed to the public. However I do want to mention that I did suffer a vaccine reaction in 1999 when I was thirty years old, and my son had multiple vaccine injuries culminating with the one that left his brain damaged by a stroke in 2005, catapulting him into the abyss of autism almost instantly.

In my personal experience, I went to Lenox Hill Hospital during the summer of 1999 in the middle of the night to have a plastic surgeon give me two stitches to sew up a tiny cut above my right eye lid which in his words was, “one that did not need any stitches at all.” I admit to being very vain at the time and insisting on stitches from a plastic surgeon to make sure my face was camera ready for my job as an on-air television news reporter. Somehow in the course of this visit he decided that I needed a tetanus shot for this cut that “did not even require stitches.” The logic behind this did not make any sense to me, but I was more preoccupied with not having a scar on my face. So I allowed him to administer the vaccine, since back then my former self did not question any doctor’s treatment plan. At the time, I remember my biggest fear was that my arm would be sore and it might be difficult to hold the camera or mic over the next few days, since I vaguely remember this type of intense soreness happening to me as a child. Never did I imagine that shot would alter the path my life took forever.

Almost immediately I noticed that I became itchy whenever I was outside in the sun. Next it seemed that every smell within 50 feet seemed to bother me, from people’s perfume right down to the ink on a newspaper that someone sitting a few seats away on a bus might be reading. Over time it became increasingly difficult to ignore how much my life was changing. I refused to go to the movies or theater where I would be around a lot of people, and quite frankly I even developed a persistent fear that I might get trapped in an elevator with someone who had just doused themselves with too much cologne. It may sound funny on paper, but there was nothing humorous about how debilitating my life had become. Most doctors that

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