Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
JENNY MCCARTHYObviously, I’m not a trained actress, and right now I’ll come out and say I’m glad I’m not.
More Jenny McCarthy Quotes
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At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.
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It’s absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.
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People don’t see this side of me. They don’t know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.
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The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism’s 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the US vaccine schedule.
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Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is almost as much fun as birthing them was.
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I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don’t know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.
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If you give us a safe vaccine, we’ll use it. It shouldn’t be polio versus autism.
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You totally value and respect your body as you get older.
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Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we’re all dying because we look up something on Google. But there’s also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.
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I usually have my protein at lunch and my carbs at night – I don’t mix protein and carbs.
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I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don’t become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.
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I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, ‘Hey, sorry about the autism, but here’s a step-by-step list on what to do next.’ But doctors don’t do that. They say ‘sorry’ and move you along.
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I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.
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Let me see if I can put this in scientific terms: Think of autism like a fart, and vaccines are the finger you pull to make it happen.
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I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know?
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