Vaccinations vs Autism?

While I agree with the statement that vaccinations do not "cause" Autism, I cannot ignore that there may be a "connection". Vaccinations ARE "completely safe" IF your child is completely

healthy and their body, especially their immune system, is functioning properly.  And this is true of all vaccinations, not just the MMR all-in-one, because of the very nature of how they work.  The whole concept of a vaccination is completely dependent on the body doing with it what it was designed to do... i.e. ignore the bad stuff (preservatives, etc) and use the good stuff to create a reaction which produces immunity to that specific pathogen.

So, what happens if the body is unable to deal with (excrete, process, etc) the bad stuff?

And, what happens if the immune system is compromised at the time of injection... is the good stuff (pathogens intended to create a positive immune response) able to do its job and, if not, what happens instead?

Now, let's take Tyler for example... extreme Jaundice from birth to 1 week of age tells me that his Methylation Cycle (how the body processes/excretes toxins) as either 
a) compromised from birth and/or 
b) that it was overwhelmed shortly after birth. 
... did this affect how Tyler's body dealt with the vaccinations we gave him?

He was on antibiotics at least twice a year for his first 3-4 years of life, usually due to ear infections resulting from a simple cold, which also indicates that 
a) his immune system was not able to fight off the simple cold and/or 
b) that he was having his "good bacteria" killed off as well as the "bad bacteria" roughly twice a year during that period. 
... did this affect how Tyler's body dealt with the vaccinations we later gave him and/or did the vaccinations contribute to this in any way?

We also now know that, somewhere along the line, Tyler's intestinal tract was damaged (the intestinal tract is a prominent part of our immune system), though we may never know when and why this damage occurred
... did this affect how Tyler's body dealt with the vaccinations we later gave him and/or did the vaccinations contribute to this in any way?

Is there an alternative to the current vaccination schedule without risking our own's children health and development? I think there is, but it would go completely against the current NHS and AMA "position" on vaccinations so I'm not expecting it to happen anytime soon. 
We are asked if our child is "well" when we take them in for vaccinations, but I was one of those parents who thought, "sure, he's well, no coughing or temperature that I know of he's well, no coughing or temperature that I know of" and didn't realise that what they really should have asked was, “is your child's immune system fully functioning?”. I wish they would look at each child's history and take into account any signs of a compromised immune system, and then test the immune system of any that might be BEFORE vaccinating.

Is there an alternative to the current vaccination schedule without risking the health of those they come into contact with from the diseases themselves? There are two options:
1. Delay the vaccinations and spread them out more, and/or
2. Pay to have combined vaccinations given separately.

I agree that "justifying exposing children to these life threatening illnesses" is a major consideration.

Do I blame the vaccinations? I acknowledge that there was already a problem (compromised immunity and methylation), but if I could go back to then, knowing what I know now, I would NOT have given them to him without a test of his immune system first to prove that his body was "well" enough to process the vaccination properly.  If it was not well enough, then I would have delayed them and spread them out more.

Tyler had his initial 3 vaccinations but, ironically, we didn't give Tyler the 3-in-1 MMR because my Aunt felt so strongly about it that she paid for us to give him the individual ones.  However, each of these individual ones were still going into a body that was not able to process them correctly.

Now, there WAS a 'noticeable' change in Tyler after his "pre-school booster" (DTaP/IPV)… less than a month later we were referred to a Community Paediatrician for further assessment and it was 6 months later that we were first told that he might be Autistic, when 6 months previous to the booster he only had a mild speech delay that the professionals still felt he would “grow out of”. He went from reciting a learned Bible Verse to babbling most of the time, and we completely lost eye contact and interaction from him having had some previously.  

I strongly suspect that, had we given Tyler the 3-in-1, I could very well have been in the same position as the parents who claim that MMR 'caused' their child's Autism, because we would very likely have seen such a difference within days of the vaccination being given, and at such a time that we had not yet noticed, or put together in the bigger picture, the other less noticeable signs (irregular bowel movements, weak immune system, etc)

It is interesting to note that law courts have ruled that vaccinations caused a more specific condition (Encephalopathy) in children who have been labelled as Autistic, and my question is how many of their ‘features’ which led to the label of Autism were actually caused by the other condition (e.g. due to a swollen brain rather than simply by ‘Autism’), and would they have been diagnosed as Autistic if they didn’t have the other condition… so the vaccination(s) didn’t cause the Autism, but did the vaccination(s) cause a problem that were part of a pathway to the diagnosis of Autism (and I include a plural there because it’s likely that the other vaccinations which the child received were adding to the problem but just didn’t cause as drastic of a change as the MMR, as well as other environmental factors)?

I guess I'm still unsure about whether what we are dealing with in Tyler and the hundreds of kids now being diagnosed with ASD is actually Autism, in the form in which it was originally defined in 1943 anyway. It seems to me that in many cases we are dealing with problems that "look like" Autism but that doesn't necessarily mean that it actually is. This is one of the reasons that we went against the advice of the professionals and didn't have him formally assessed. There was a paper written recently, admittedly by an organisation that promotes treating Autism with biomedical treatment, which points out a number of examples where “features” of ‘Autism’ are being helped simply by addressing medical needs in them.  

Let’s go back to Tyler… I will never know which, if any, of his “environmental” circumstances could have had anything to do with his later situation.  While I was pregnant I had food poisoning from fish, had a mercury-based Amalgam filling put in and flew on a plane; then in labour I was given Pitosin to speed things up.  Sound familiar?  Of course it does, because many mothers experienced one or more of these.  Again, it’s not going to be any one of them, but COULD any or some of them have contributed to the problem or started the ball rolling towards the problem.  I don’t bring these things up out of guilt as there was no way for me to have known at the time, but simply to illustrate that this issue is actually much bigger than just vaccinations.  

According to the Health Visitors, Tyler was developing ‘normally’ until the age of 4 when he was not anymore. We have been working and praying hard ever since to bring him back.. the good news, he is being healed. (read the post entitled Biomedical Treatment for more info on that...)

However, there are some for whom Biomedical Treatment don't seem to work... perhaps these children do have the Autism that one is "born with" and cannot be avoided regardless of exposures or weaknesses.  

One of the reasons that I don't expect the NHS or AMA to start seeing and treating Autism biomedically is that every single child is different (hence the expanded name, Autism Spectrum) and will therefore have to be assessed and 'treated' individually.  There is no single answer or pill, and that can mean more cost (and less 'kickbacks' for the doctor and health service if you believe what is said about that, but that's a whole different story).

So, these are my thoughts and questions.  I'm not about to publish them publicly because I am not informed enough and they are just thoughts and questions, not answers.  However, I hope you don't mind that I shared them with you.