Are there links between children with autism and mercury poisoning.?

Yes, there are. Autism rears it' ugly head too often shortly after receiving immunizations, I believe around 15 months, it's believed to be because of the MMR vaccine. But, I don't immunize, and my son has autism, so it's not exclusively from immunizations. He had signs from birth. That and the fact that it's very common to see autism in more than one family member, suggests that it can also be a genetic issue, too. The fact is, nobody knows for sure what causes it. But, when you look at the fact that thimerosol was heavily used as a preservative in immunizations, I believe around '98(don't quote me on that one, I learned all this a year ago so I might have the dates wrong) and we had a huge autism epidemic in 2000, you kind of have to raise your brow. I had a link that showed a study that was suppressed that says basically the amount of mercury in the MMR vaccine was so high, that it would only be safe if you were over 500lbs! Because this kind of information would cause an uproar, ...  more