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Mother Uses Grief Over Autistic Son To Do Something For Others Like Him
Take the case of Minneapolis-based entrepreneur Jennifer VanDerHorst-Larson. She overcome depression and shock when her only son turned autistic, supposedly after a MMR (Mumps- Measles-Rubella) vaccine, and one for influenza and chicken pox on Oct. 15, 2001, when her son Cade Larson, was 15 months old.
Cade fell into a deep sleep that lasted 14 hours, and when he woke up, she says, he was a different child. “He stopped looking at me,” VanDerHorst-Larson remembers. “He had lost his speech.” She believes he had a huge seizure that resulted in brain damage.
Her only mission became to somehow heal her son. A few months later, her school district told her that Cade had the severest case of autism it had ever seen. “This is my only child. I can’t describe the pain”, she says.
Though the idea that vaccines cause autism has been widely rejected by mainstream scientists, some doctors are investigating it and many parents of autistic children remain convinced of a link.
Yet, VanDerHorst-Larson’s entrepreneurial spirit did not allow her to remain hurt and victimized. In 1996, she had opened a Pilates studio in Minneapolis. In 1998, she had started Vibrant Technologies, a buyer and seller of information technology hardware that now has 40 employees and expects revenue this year of $45 million, up from $37 million last year. Now, in the five and a half years since Cade’s condition has been diagnosed, she has thrown herself into the challenge of giving meaning to his life with all of the classic weapons of the entrepreneurial personality: superhuman energy, bottomless self-confidence, bulldog tenacity, a compulsion to be in control and a knack for spotting opportunities in even the most disheartening reversals of fortune.
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