Messages posted by: Kellowyn

Fever prior to onset of symptoms

-I have heard many parents say their child first developed symptoms after recieving vaccinations, and shots often cause fever. This was not our own experience, but we first became aware of our sons symptoms after he was hospitalized for pneumonia at 12 months. When we took him in his fever was 104.9. At the time we thought he wasn't talking because he was sick, and it wasn't until 2 weeks later when he still wouldn't talk that we started to worry. He is now 5 and is just starting to become verbal again

The word cure is such an issue with me.

Would my life be easier if my 5 year old could communicate with me via speech? Absolutely. Would his? Probably. But we are working on that. In the mean time, I love everything about him, every moment of the day that I get to see his face.

I also have 2 autistic siblings. One is still a child and undergoing the standard speech/ot/pt regimen. The other has grown into an incredibly intelligent and mature young woman. Yes, she's weird. So what? So are most people, in some way. When I think of a "cure" I have to wonder if it would also "cure" her of all the things that make her the awesome person she is.

I'm insulted by parents who are only interested in "curing" ("recovering") their children. What does it say about my child, my brother, and my sister, and about their place in the world that people would rather subject their children to dangerous "treatments" than have them be like my family?