Vaccines = autism?

[Demdem6]

Hello

so I am currently pregnant with a baby boy and my partner is strongly against getting him vaccinated when he gets here as he believes vaccines cause / increase risk of autism,
especially in boys

id never thought twice about this but now hes put it in my head. Yes ive done my own research but hes saying doctors and the internet will tell you what you want to hear because they want you to vaccinate your kids. Tbh hes a conspiracy theorist

i just want to hear from people who vaccinated their sons and their son didn’t develop it? I know some people will shout at me for this, not my intention to offend anyone

Well, look at it this way.
If vaccines were a conspiracy and actually damaging kids, then doctors wouldn't actually vaccinate their own DC, right?
But I can assure you that all of them do.

You'll change your mind when you watch your son die of a preventable illness.

You would be risking the lives not only of your own children but also those of other people who can't be vaccinated for some reason or for whom the vaccine is less effective.

People are entitled to be angry.

Perhaps you should do some proper research - it was fully tested and licensed. Are you a virologist or doctor? What medical papers have you studied?

Where did you get your medical degree, OP? What’s your basis for overruling decades of actual immunological research (and Google and YouTube don’t count)?

Ask yourself how many people you know who’ve had smallpox. It will be zero. Because of vaccines. The same applies for many illnesses which used to maim and frequently kill people - mostly babies and children.

Vaccines arent something to chill out about.

but it seems it’s not just your partner who’s a tinfoil hatter - you’d have been better being up front from the start.

No-one said "you MUST get the COVID vaccine or YOU will be seriously ill". Literally no-one said that.

The fact that you didn't get the COVID vaccine and didn't get seriously ill with COVID has nothing to do with anything. That wasn't really the point of getting the vaccine for healthy people, although it did reduce your chance of getting seriously ill (but that was quite low anyway).

If you don't want to vaccinate your child, don't - but they, and perhaps later on some of their friends who aren't able to be vaccinated, are more likely to die of something preventable if you don't. I personally don't understand why anyone would want to not do something that would make their child less likely to die or be seriously ill but there we go.

It doesn’t matter. IMO, it was rushed and then forced on people so I chose not to have it and will never have it. Sorry if that upsets you loll

Anecdotal evidence isn’t evidence though - that’s why you have so much nonsense written about stuff on the internet and why posters are directing you to actual research. Unfortunately “do your own research” has become a phrase used by people who rely on you tube for their “facts”, don’t understand how to read statistics and spread falsehoods on line. It’s very depressing 🙁.

Because by not vaccinating your dc you’re putting others at risk and that makes people angry. People aren’t very “chill” when others risk their dc lives. Is that clearer?

It wasn’t rushed - they’d been working on the vaccine for years.

Ds almost died of RSV 16 years ago. It makes me so happy that the vaccine against it is available now to hopefully stop other children having to cope with the irreversible damage he has to his lungs and to stop other parents having to go through the hell I did.

Sitting by the hospital bed of your child not knowing what will happen is horrendous. Why would you risk putting your child and yourself in that position?

id Never risk my kids to protect yours or others. Sorry, that’s not happening lol

Vaccines don't cause autism. They do cause adulthood.

I have a son, he's fully vaccinated, in fact I paid for extra vaccinations as chicken pox wasn't in the routine schedule when he was at nursery. Definitely not autistic.

Correlation isn’t causation. There will be people whose sons are vaccinated and whose sons are autistic. It doesn’t mean the two things are connected.

Yep, 2 years is very long

Perhaps look at it from another angle OP. Did your partner have childhood vaccinations? Tetanus? Diphtheria? Whooping cough? Is he autistic or is he a healthy adult?

So it was OK for his mum to protect him, but he's not prepared to offer his own child the same protections. Wow.

I thought this once. Didn’t vaccinate ds1 at all and was diagnosed with autism at 9 . Ds2 I missed some and did others also diagnosed autism at 6 and dd I split vaccinations done them later and one at a time again autism diagnosis at 6. Last dc had them on schedule and got a diagnosis at 7. Then I got the older 3 catch up vaccines to fully protect them and felt like a twat for leaving them unprotected. My mother had told me that vaccines caused my autism and that’s why I was anti vaccine turns out it’s genetic obviously.

Andrew Wakefield published a study in the Lancet in 1998 claiming the MMR vaccine caused autism. The Lancet should never have published it and has since retracted it as it has been completely discredited. It is now very well known as an example of fraudulent research and the lasting impact it can have. Wakefield has been struck off the medical register.

I suspect you wouldn't be so blasé about that now if you'd been carrying Covid and infected your granny and she'd died of it.

Well apparently between 85-95 percent of people get thuer childhood vaccination s and only around 5% of chikdren have autism and we dont know tgey havecall been diagnosed.

So basically most vaccinated boys are not autistic.

Er, but you’re risking your own dc by not vaccinating (which it’s your “right” but you can’t then expect people to be “chill” with you because it also affects others.

Push him off the edge of the earth.

I'm 66. We didn't realise that there was ASD in the family until my cousin's lad was diagnosed with Asperger's in the '90s. (He's doing very well, by the way - married, an electrical engineer, paid cash for his house...)

Then a lot of things made sense about our family...We tend to be 'shy', 'resistant to change'...

I can assure you that my great-uncles didn't have vaccinations in the 19th century, but from what I can remember of them (from knowing them in the 1960s and '70s) they were most definitely on the spectrum...but they were just 'shy' and 'didn't like being amongst strangers'.

Please do not confuse the OP with rational argument -