Autism and vaccines

Some stellar intellects on news comment boards are hollering about the retracted autism study that linked autism to vaccines and caused a sharp decline in vaccinations. These stellar intellects think that without the vaccine link, that autism somehow doesn't exist. That it's a myth of the imagination. That we just need to discipline our kids and they will "get over it." A bunk study about autism and vaccines doesn't change the existence of autism, people. If you remove the probable cause of any disease or disorder, it doesn't make the disease or disorder go away. Removing the reason why a limb was amputated doesn't make the limb grow back. Removing the suspected cause of why the autistic brain pathways are circuited differently (which is why the autistic person perceives the world differently) doesn't make those pathways straight, or however they are supposed to be.

I am very interested in the 30 years of piecemeal research linking inflammation of the central nervous system and autism. This indicates that autism could be an autoimmune disorder, which I find interesting since my mother has MS and her mother had RA. Autoimmune disorders run in my family.

Bottom line, no one yet knows what causes autism. Finding the cause is instrumental in the treatment of autism. Without knowing the cause, finding the right therapy for each individual case is guesswork, since each case of autism is different.