Autism alters lives, but parents feel “blessed”, reports an article about a family in McAllen, Texas. Patrick and Sylvia Hamilton’s son Michael is 23. While they worry—as many, and perhaps all, of us do—about resources and opportunities as children get older, the Hamiltons have no regrets.
“Special children are born into special families,” Sylvia said. “We’re highly blessed.”
And special families, like the Hamiltons, do a lot to help their children with disabilities long into their adult years.
The constant need for care changes the course of all of their lives.
The scope of that impact varies with the severity of the disability. Many …read more

Parents don’t cause autism and neither do vaccines.
Further: More and more evidence is being found that rejects the hypothesis that there is a link between autism and mercury; more and more evidence is also being found that rejects the hypothesis that there is a link between autism and the MMR vaccine.
Nonetheless: Proponents of the hypothesis that a vaccine or something in vaccines (such as mercury in the form of the preservative thimerosal) causes autism remain as vocal as ever about their views, which they make known via full-page ads in national newspapers; celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy; and press releases …read more