On holiday with my 2 dcs.. DS has Asperger's. Meet family with similar aged dcs and they are having lots of fun together. I talk to the mum while watching our respective kids splash about. After all the niceties, we get down to the 'and what do you do?' -type stuff.. She tells me she's studying - I say, oh that's interesting, and she says she's Studying homeopathy - and proceeds to go on at length with much breathless enthusiasm about how much homeopathy has helped her DS's behaviour, with tangents into all the 'dangerous heavy metals' in childhood vaccines, how amazing it is, what they can treat nowadays etc etc.
I'm thinking 'oh great, an anti-vaxxer' and inwardly braced myself for some pronouncement on autism.
Sure enough, today by the pool, she starts on and not-so subtley inquires about whether my DS was fully vaccinated and if I 'noticed' anything around that time in terms of adverse reactions etc. I mean how fucking insensitive is that? It's so fucking predictable isn't it?
So I said yes, he is fully vaccinated and yes, I looked very hard at the evidence and oh, isn't it a shame that all the proper peer-reviewed, longditunidal, massive sample, studies show no ACTUAL correlation between MMR and autism, and that that Andrew Wakefield was basically a crook wasn't he? He didn't do your cause much good did he?
And then she takes the last refuge of the desperate crystal-fairy and says there have been studies but they've been suppressed by the medical establishment and 'the government.' Okaaay.
Would I be unreasonable to tell her to cock off with her mad theories and stop being so bloody rude next time. Coming to a sun lounger near you...