I just wanted to say that I give Jenny alot of kudos. Here is a mom that truly LOVES her child, she put everything aside and connected to her son> it takes one hell of a person to do everything she and Evan accomplished in just a couple of years and for Jim I think he is a true gentleman that truly LOVES his FAMILY. This is excaltly what the world needs THANK YOU Jenny Jim and Evan for showing that FAMILY still exists.

Hello,
I am a grandma whose grandson was diagnosed in the “Autistic Spectrum” and we were very suspect about his vaccinations as he “became” autistic after his third round of vaccinations. We thought the most important thing was to “get the toxin out” of his little body. By the grace of God we discovered PureBodyNow.com who sells chelating foot pads. We just put one on his food before bed and it “drew” the toxins out. We also use, with great success, essential oils from YoungLiving.com. We use BrainPower and Clarity. We also have him on a wheat/sugar free diet. I encourage all to use the alternative therapies we used. They worked miracles for our sweet Shane, and I pray they do the same for your loved one, or ones.
Best wishes, Grandma Dee

Jenny,
I went to 6 different stores to purchase your new book and all were out. I was so dissapointed. My son is 3 1/2 and was diagnosed almost 2 years ago. My son was born 3 months early and it has been an up hill battle since his birth. He has an older brother and younger brother. I watched your episode on Oprah and I thought you came up with some pretty good points. Well I know you must be busy. Good luck with everything. If you have a chance, please try to write back.
Rachel Smith
Mommy to 3 boys, Brandon 5, Ryan 3 1/2 and Gavin 2 years.

I’m late in posting to this article because I wanted to read all the stuff about what Jenny had to say on both Oprah and in People.

I’ve always been wondering why the incredible increase of autism when it used to be like 1 in 10,000 and now it is like 1 in 100, with the majority of the diagnoses being boys. Gosh, even autism rates in Scotland climbed 18% in just one year. In fact, three of my close friends have a child with autism (we were all friends before they got pregnant) so this hits close to home for me.

Jenny’s comments about the vaccines really made me think. I went back to look at my childhood vaccination records, and I see how my vaccines were staggered starting when I was two years old, and were administered one at a time, allowing several months between each. None of that MMR stuff all at once.

I then went to the CDC web-site to see what their vaccine schedule suggests (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm5551-Immunization.pdf), and I am truly shocked! They recommend the first vaccines start at birth with the HepB vaccine! Influenza at six months. MMR at 12 months. Rotavirus at 2 months.

I’m not a PhD scientist, but I can’t believe that kind of vaccination schedule or the amount of drugs pushed into children from birth to age 24 months cannot have anything but bad effects which could explain the incredible increase in children being diagnosed with all sorts of health problems. Sure, it could be the environment or the food, but goodness, one cannot discount the role vaccine drugs play when it is there in black and white on the CDC web-site.

It is like we are putting so many things in the bodies of these little babies all in the name of preventing diseases (and diarrhea), and here the babies have yet to develop the necessary foreign-matter integration tools to accept or work with the vaccines. As a result, all those foreign matters being injected simply overwhelm the body and result in the body rejecting or being damaged by the ingredients in the vaccines thus the result is a child with a serious health or disability problem.

Heck, there’s lots of ingredients in those vaccines I won’t let in my body so why would I put it in a baby’s body?

I just want to say my son is almost 15yrs old and he has Aspergers disorder. It doesn’t go away, and it takes a lot of time and patience. I found that he is not going to change. We need to just learn how to teach him the way he can learn. He does not understand things the same way we do. I give anyone credit that has the patience and time to raise a child with this disorder. It really doesn’t take money. It takes patience and time along with a lot of explaining. Time goes on and we grow along with my son and his disorder. He teaches us new things everyday.

I loved watching Jenny on Oprah. I can remember when my children reached milestones and how excited I was to tell family and friends. That’s how Jenny is. There may be no cure but she feels there is recovery. How lucky we are to have someone to give us hope. For parents who have heard from docs “your child will never say this or do that” to have someone say “hey maybe they could” is so exciting and I can see why Jenny would want to share that with everyone.

I don’t believe my comment was harsh at all, I am so tired of judmental people commenting on something they just don’t understand. Autism is obviously something near and dear to me and I am so tired of the misconceptions people make about it. As I said in my first post, Autism is not a disease, but a very complex spectrum DISORDER, but it is also something that makes my son the person he is, a strong willed genius little boy who loves life to the fullest and sees the best in everything, and everyONE, too bad more of us weren’t like that.

Kudos to all you moms out there who have kids with autism. I don’t doubt it’s tough but thanks for speaking up! It’s great to hear about what’s worked for your kids versus what Jenny McCarthy talked about in the article.

Even if the wording on the cover of People isn’t quite right, I’m glad to see autism getting some coverage. When we have 1/150 babies born with this disorder we need to be paying more attention to it, IMO.

Who cares how the cover is worded (coming from an ex-special ed teacher, now in admin.), as long as the magazine is devoting time and its cover to this very needed cause? I’d much rather see wrong terminology on the front of People than see Britney’s latest breakdown!

Very cute kid – and I love her haircut!

re the debate about semantics. Plenty of adults refer to *themselves* as autistic. Plenty of adults with Aspergers call themselves ‘Aspies’. They do not subscribe to this notion that they are “people with autism” anymore than gay people describe themselves as “people with gayness”. In my opinion – as the mother of an autistic child and someone who has looked into the autistic/Aspergers adult communities – it is no more offensive to say ‘autistic child’ than it is to say ‘blonde child’ or ‘deaf child’ or ‘black child’ or ‘gifted child’.
And proper therapies for autism do work. ABA programmes have been proven to be effective.