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Jenny McCarthy Continues To Fight The Autism Fight
The fight is not over for Jenny McCarthy. Even though it has now been proven that the MMR vaccine does not lead to autism, she isn’t quitting the fight against the condition.
In an interview with Time magazine she said: “Evan couldn’t talk – now he talks. Evan couldn’t make eye contact – now he makes eye contact. Evan was antisocial – now he makes friends. It was amazing to watch, over the course of doing this, how certain therapies work for certain kids and they completely don’t work for others … When something didn’t work for Evan, I didn’t stop. I stopped that treatment, but I didn’t stop.”
I understand her passion. I know parents of children with autism appreciate the amount of attention Jenny has brought to the condition. However there has been some speculation that perhaps her son wasn’t autistic at all.
I thought this quote about her son was interesting: “Or, as other pediatricians have suggested, perhaps the miracle I have beheld is the quotidian miracle of childhood development: a delayed 2-year-old catching up by the time he is 7, a commonplace, routine occurrence, nothing more surprising than a short boy growing tall.”
What do you think?
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Lola commented on Feb 28 10 at 7:11 pmI think that Evan was never diagnosed with Autism.
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