Aidan Quinn connects MMR vaccine with his Daughter’s Autism
Irish Actor, Aidan Quinn
IRISH American actor Aidan Quinn, talked with the Sunday Independent last week while on assignment in Co. Cork filming The Eclipse, by the noted playwright Conor McPherson. Quinn discussed several subjects in the interview, but what really stood out most was what he had to say about his 19-year-old daughter Ava Quinn, who is non-verbal and suffers from autism.
Aidan and his wife Elizabeth Bracco (sister of Lorraine Bracco of the Sopranos) say that their daughter has been a real joy in their lives, but treating her condition hasn’t been easy for the family, which also has a younger 10-year-old daughter. “It is a blessing and a curse. It has its blessings as well,” Quinn says in his interview. His daughter Ava was a perfectly normal baby, until she got vaccinated.
“So we had a normal child that was walking, talking, doing everything way faster than she was supposed to. Then, after an MMR, she got a 106 fever and turned blue and woke up the next day with dark circles and not knowing who she was. And uncoordinated. And her arm lifted up. Of course the doctors are all saying, “Oh, that’s normal.”
The worst, Quinn says, was hearing his child “crying uncontrollably and in pain and nobody can tell you what to do to help. And there is nothing showing up on any of the tests. But you know your daughter is in pain.” He also talked about the strain that it put on his marriage, but he and his wife survived, against the odds. “I think the divorce rate in autism parents is some horrendous figure like 75 per cent. If you get through the first five or six years with autism that’s the most difficult part,” he says.
Quinn says that Ava now “does have a guy that she grew up with, that she’s very keen on and they are very keen on each other. And they do give each other … it is delight seeing them together, these two autistic adults now. And when they are together, the way they eye each other out of the corner of their eyes and laugh at each other. My daughter doesn’t really speak. So sometimes you’re guessing at what’s going on.”
Read the entire interview with Aidan Quinn.
Wonderful article. Thanks for writing it Caryn and thanks to Aiden to having the courage to speak out about this subject!
I am the grandmother of a 41/2 little girl with severe autism who is nonverbal. Wondered if Aidan and his wife have tried any cures.
As a father of a child with a vaccine injury, in my opinion I think it would be responsible to tell parents to check the vaccine inserts so they could read the ingredients that are being injected into the children.
Doctors do not test before and after vaccines, therefore, how can they say they are not causing harm?
Thank you.
Our son, Patrick, was 2 1/2 when the mmr he received threw him into a tail-spin. He was verbal, bright, just learning letters. He woke-up at night after his second round of mmr, convulsing. We took him to the hospital, but by then he had stopped. The pediatrician told us that he could not possibly have mercury poisoning since ALL vaccines are safe. Everywhere we went we told the same thing. But Patrick continued to convulse at night.
Finally, we did find a group of parents who were investigating biomedical resources and autism. We found out our son had measles and a yeast infection in his gut. Also, he had lead poisoning, as well as arsenic and also overloads of other contaminants. He was a walking toxic waste dump.
Those responsible for poisoning of millions of children of their own nation will get their reward in place, where “… there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 24:51)”.