The Weinmasters are a football family at heart that are tackling the biggest problem in their lives by combating autism for their youngest son Adam.

"Not having a third one being able to participate in a sport that the other two love to do and something that I have the opportunity to do.. It's hard," said Adam's father, Kerry.

The Weinmasters have three boys.

"My brother and I both wish he could play sports 'cause he would probably be pretty good by the size of him, it's hard, you got to bond with him in different ways," said Adam's brother, Kyle.

The older two boys, Kyle and Philip, have played football all their life, while their father coaches. But for Adam, the family faces a game of recovering from what they believe was a poisoning.

"It was the mercury that took my child and now he is coming back, and we are enjoying him," said Adam's mother, Linda. "He is a lot of fun now."

While Linda doesn't take offense when people say Adam has autism, Linda rather says that Adam has mercury poisoning. She is part of a growing number of parents who believe mercury in vaccines cause autism.

"Adam just didn't have a chance, being born to an RH-Negative mom, being born in the '90s, Rhogam, and having the genetics, and having high testosterone, because testosterone enhances the toxicity of mercury. After treating him for mercury he has become a normal child," said Linda.

Adam does have twice the amount of mercury in his system compared to a typical person. He has the academic level of a first grader, but he can tell you where mercury comes from in vaccines.

"Mercury poisoning is from thimerosal," said Adam. "It means they damaged a lot of babies."

"He is probably more like a 6-year-old," said Linda. "The things he plays with are not appropriate. Most 16-year-olds don't still like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Batman. They are more interested in getting in that car and driving off."

While Adam still needs much assistance to live, Linda says she is proud of her son's progress.

"He is amazing. He is my Achilles' heel. He is amazing, what he has done. We have had to fight a lot of bumps along the way. He is incredible. When you have neurotypical children and they do great things, it's not like what Adam has done because he has had to overcome so much. From when they told me to institutionalize him when he was just under six and basically put your efforts in your older boys, they could handle him at an institution better than we could handle him at home... to now where he lives at home with us and functions pretty normally," said Linda.

Linda is a very active mom in trying to get mercury out of vaccines. She encourages people to think twice about vaccinating by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, recommendations.

"You think of the pain, that you endure with you own child being hurt. If I can help one mom not experience this pain by getting the word out, I know I have helped out a lot of moms because I have a lot of friends and they are having grandchildren and they are not vaccinating because of the CDC, and if the CDC wants to keep their vaccine program, they better clean it up," said Linda.

In KOMU's next installment of the series, we follow Adam and Linda to the hospital where they draw blood monthly to check his toxicity levels. We will also show you exactly what Linda is doing to combat Adam's autism through an array of treatments.

Of course not everyone agrees with the alternative treatments Linda is doing. Be sure to follow our series and we'll show you differing opinions of doctors. The next story in our "Combating Autism From Within" series will air Sunday, Dec. 9 at 10:00 p.m.