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I've followed this issue for going on 16+ years (our Asperger Syndrome son's age) and do have some ability to parse the findings and evaluate the associations.
My sincere, fierce, protective, mother-grizzly parental feeling is that NOT to vaccinate is by FAR the worse risk. I'm actually much more upset at parents who put their kids AND THEIR COMMUNITIES at risk of these PERFECTLY PREVENTABLE CHILDHOOD DISEASES.
Autistic kids, in my humble, first-hand view, are the canaries in the coal mine, vis-a-vis in utero/neo-natal pesticide exposure and exposure to those kinds of environmental "wounds" as it were. Thimerosal is the least of our worries in my opinion - and, from what I understand, thimerosal has been removed from most childhood vaccines as of the 1997 FDA Modernization Act. (see http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm#t1).
Get your kids vaccinated, and work to ban pesticides and these faux estrogens from plastic, instead of beating your heads against the very sturdy, very data-supported wall that says thimerosal is not the boogeyman, no matter how much we need a boogeyman when it comes to our autistic kids.
