Hope---Fades

I was trying to find a way to write this post as not to offend anyone, but i'm not sure that's possible.

I got back late Sunday evening from a 5 day vacation to Florida with my Mom. We went to St. Pete Beach Florida for the National Autism Association Conference. The resort was beautiful, the weather was amazing, but the conference in one word "sucked".

I might be alone in saying this, but I am not looking for a cure for my son with Autism, nor do I believe that his vaccines caused his autism. All that I am trying to do is find ways to make life easier for our family. I have never in my life met so many people with such high expectations, I refuse to give my son 35 vitamins a day in the hopes that it will "cure" his autism; don't get me wrong we tried the DAN doctor's, the Gluten free diet, the vitamins, the B12 injections, etc. Until we realized that none of it was working and was just a way for these doctors to make more money from hopeless feeling parents.

This particular conference was a lot of parents saying that they know the vaccines caused there child's autism; which is fine if they believe that, it was a lot of telling me what I am doing wrong, and that I have a look of hopelessness. I actually left feeling like a bigger piece of shi* parent then I did when I got there; I am pretty sure that wasn't the point?

I should have known when I saw that Dr. Andrew Wakefield was going to be there, even after his autism-vaccine frauds were brought to light that it wasn't the conference for me. It was a lot of networking, people there that did not have an autistic child trying to get you to buy vitamins from them, ahh no thanks.

Don't get me wrong we are all doing what we can to help Joey out, but first things first lets work on him counting to 3 and learning his ABC's before we try and cure his autism;-)