How Anti-Vaxxers Shame Autistic Kids.

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Could vaccines cause other neurological disorders too, like ADHD or intellectual learning disabilities?

I think the MMR gave me my AS, and my brother's AS too.
My mum said that both me and my brother had fevers straight after our MMR jabs. My brother got a terrible ear infection with his fever, and he was more unwell than the other children that had their vaccines at the same time. When I had mine, I came down with a fever too, and my personality changed rather noticeably. I went from being a rather placid toddler, to a very grizzly toddler that seemed sensitive to everything and was suddenly more hyperactive than I was before. It's not what the actual personality traits are that's peculiar, but it's the sudden change of personality traits right after the vaccine that is peculiar, especially that they didn't go away and it was the child I had become. So is it coincidence that my personality abruptly altered when I had the MMR vaccine? My mum reckons I wasn't the same after that.

So that is living proof that the MMR vaccine can cause autism. I'm not saying it's the ONLY cause, as autism existed long before the vaccines. But I think it is one of many causes. Or maybe me and my brother were both born NTs but carried some sort of gene that made our brains more vulnerable to slight damage if vaccinated or whatever, and so that gave us AS. I don't know.

In the later 90s when I found out about vaccines and autism, it gave me a phobia of having any more vaccines in case I became more autistic.

Fnord does it again. Great post, great content--this was an interesting read, WP, on a topic I had not noticed.

Wonder how the anti-vaxxers feel about autistic adults???

OK I'm not saying me or my mum are right. I don't particularly want to believe that vaccines cause autism, otherwise it will haunt me for the rest of my life that I started off as NT and turned into a spectrumer. Maybe I bumped my head or something, which damaged my fragile brain.

But apart from the fact that autism existed before vaccines, what other evidence do professionally trained scientists have that vaccines cause autism? (It is a matter-of-fact question, no sarcasm involved).

By the way, thats why I used the example of all of the scientists that made fun of the guy that said that it was beneficial to be outside in the sun sometimes. Scientists mocked him and said that it was preposterous, until evidence was found to support his claims. We now know that we can obtain Vitamin D and other benefits from being in the sun. But, this must have flown right over his head!

There certainly WERE autistic people 50, 100, or more years ago.

50 years ago, many who would be Aspergian or “high-functioning” today (yes, there were many) would have been diagnosed with “minimal brain dysfunction,” “childhood schizophrenia,” or worse. Many were institutionalized. I was one of the lucky ones.

If vaccines caused autism, there would have been an “epidemic” of autism in the 50s and 60s, when vaccinations increases greatly.

Because people use this as an excuse not to get vaccinated.

I all for research...and for the Scientific Method, by the way.

I’m not a “get red under the collar” sort of guy.

But the anti-vaxxers advocate not vaccinating their children, without realizing what vaccination has done throughout history to alleviate disease and suffering.