Category Archives: Blogs by Thinking Moms’ Revolution

Vaccines: Allergy, Autoimmunity, Autism, and More

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January 21, 2016  “The conception that antibodies, which should protect against disease, are also responsible for disease, sounds at first absurd.” — Clemens von Pirquet, 1906 A while back I wrote a blog stating that, while my own views on … Continue reading

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IACC, January 2106: TMR President Megan Davenhall’s Written Testimony

January 13, 2016 Yesterday, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee met for only the second time since September of 2014. The IACC is the closest thing the federal government has to oversight on the exploding incidence of autism. Unfortunately, though the … Continue reading

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Federal Autism Policy: Big News and Action Alert!

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January 12, 2016 Spring of 2014, I sat in a conference room in Washington, D.C. with two other representatives of the newly formed Autism Policy Reform Coalition (APRC) and five highly paid lobbyists from Autism Speaks. We were there in … Continue reading

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Follow Your Own Path

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January 11, 2016 Truth be told, I can’t take full credit for this blog. The great Rev is the inspiration behind it. She wrote something the other day that really resonated with me, and I believe it may be helpful … Continue reading

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10 Years of Love, Acceptance and Survival

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Ten years on Autism Road will take a lot out of you if you let it. It will completely suck you up, rip you to threads, and spit you back out. You have to fight your way through the darkness … Continue reading

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Victory Over Autism – Practical Help for Families Seeking Recovery

Autism is so common these days (the latest estimate in the U.S. is 1 in 45 children) that the autism section of the bookstore or library doesn’t come close to resembling the autism section of 1975 when the autism rate … Continue reading

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Autism “Awareness” Doesn’t Include the Most Common Way Kids with Autism Die

  Jayliel Vega Batista, a five-year-old boy with autism, was found dead in the water today. I found myself shocked by the sheer ignorance of people’s comments . . . and the cruelty. People were saying this was “natural selection.” … Continue reading

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2016: The Year of Empowerment

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  The first week of a new year always brings new hope, a new sense of energy and always new resolutions to accomplish for the upcoming year. I always start the year with the best intentions, but then life happens and … Continue reading

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The Lessons I Learned in 2015

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This past year has taught me a few good lessons, some of which I wanted to share with you as we close 2015: 🌟 Owning our stories and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever … Continue reading

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Anaphylactic Food Allergy Is NOT Normal

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A Facebook friend posted this as her status last week. Many people don’t understand the severity or seriousness of life-threatening food allergy in today’s children because it is unlike anything they ever knew when they were children. We think it’s … Continue reading

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