As for the DS bill regarding information and resources, I really think it would be wonderful. However, doctors have to also be willing to change their tone when it comes to disability and the “perfect” child and who should and shouldn’t be given the right to live. Their gloom and doom messages about disability in general can be just terrifying. No bill will change the way doctors feel about it, but hopefully, over time, their attitudes will change and the resources and information the bill might allow for will give new parents HOPE and even JOY through the hope.

I saw the effects when I took my son for an MRI. He was seven at the time. He had to be sedated to keep him still. Only when the time came for him to wake up, his eyes opened, but his mind did not. Hours later, I took him to the bathroom and standing in front of the toilet he completely missed and hit the wall above the toilet. It took eight hours after he woke up before his head was clear.

This is a problem for the medical community. It is the sulfur amino acid chemistry that is affected. The same chemistry that breaks down tylenol is the chemistry that latches onto mercury and transports it out through the liver and the kidneys. This means that irrespective of whether vaccines are linked to autism, autistic children should avoid any injesting of any heavy metals in any form. Once again, much of what medically is and has been measured cannot be part of medical research because it steps too close to that thin ice of associating autism and vaccines.