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

Also to add- here is a link to the letter Roald Dahl wrote about his daughter Olivia. It’s very powerful.

https://share.google/aVz430VjtXO87VaPY

Before vaccination became widespread children died or were left disabled by measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, polio and other diseases that children can now be protected from. Vaccines do not cause autism. Not vaccinating may cause your baby to die.

If you and your partner are against vaccines I am not sure there is much I can say to convince you. A quick google will give you access to accounts from parents who watched their child die or be left blind, deaf or paralysed by one of the diseases the NHS protects our children from through vaccination.

Another consideration is that a small number of children are unable to be vaccinated due to a compromised immune system. Vaccinating your well child can also protect those children. You could help to prevent a child who is already having to endure horrible medical treatment from also becoming very sick due to measles or one of the other diseases.

Yes we have and it doesn’t change the fact that we are both incredibly sensitive to medications (husband has many allergies) so we still need to approach with caution.

People madly underestimate the flu dont they?!

Its because there are tw*ts walking around saying "oh I feel awful ive got the flu"

If you are walking around you dont have the flu. If you have the flu you cannot lift your head off the pillow.

I used to work in a place where they did free flu jab due to the nature of the work. I had one for several years and only had mild winter illnesses. The year I left I thought "im not paying for one".....following winter....wow. the flu. I had to call my mum to take my kids. I could not lift my head up. Horrendous. Scary. Needless to say as a single parent following that I paid for flu jab.

Also, my daughter was very ill around new years when she was 5. Floppy, lifeless, pale, lying around on the sofa. Soaring high temp. Rushed to A&E on new years day. Diagnosed flu.
Shes always had the flu spray since then.

Neither of us have had the flu since, yes we get winter illnesses but nowhere near as bad.

The flu is dangerous. People walking around feeling rough but saying they have the flu have no idea what the flu actually is!

My uncle died of polio at 18 months in the pre vax days, it destroyed my gran, she never recovered from it and how he suffered.
If that’s what you want then crack on , small coffins are cheaper 👍🏻

Wakeham deserves to be prosecuted

your partner is an idiot. I have 2 sons who have been vaccinated and aren’t autistic. If you don’t vaccinate against these diseases you could be risking death if they catch them. They’ve been giving them for decades and they save children’s lives.

TBH IMO our job as a parent/s is to be responsible towards our DC and protect them, and for me getting my DC vaccinated was one of those responsibilities.

Mumps/measles are contagious diseases, both of which can lead to complications, so i'm pretty passionate about protecting not only my DC but also others they mix with.

That’s great for your son but in my case it’s the opposite - can you understand that?! The vaccine nearly KILLED ME. Whilst I’m happy it was useful for your son, can you comprehend that we’re all physiologically different and that a one size fits all does not work?

Your partner is an idiot.

The autism link was disproven decades ago.

And even if there was a risk. Autism is better than desth

My son is fully vaccinated and no autism

There is no link between vaccines and autism but let’s say there was.

would rather an autistic child or a dead child?

I wish they would exclude non vaccinated children from schools and childcare settings too.

Also came to say your partner is an idiot. He is also a shit dad if he’s so willing to put your child’s health at real risk despite these stupid conspiracy theories having been debunked time and time again.

Does he say ‘wake up’ ‘sheeples’ and believe in chemtrails too? If so then you chose to breed knowing he was an idiot and that’s on you too.

Anti vaxxers are the worst type of people. Spewing absolute nonsense like this, feeling superior because they think they are smarter than anyone else - when really it’s only those who are thick as mince that believe this sort of rubbish. Luckily it looks like kids inherit their IQ from their mother rather than their father so hopefully you will do better!

Seriously, so don't have the vaccines and your child will die from those illnesses..
I mean cmon there's enough men in the world to show vaccines didn't affect them when they got them, none of my 6 brothers are autistic none of my 4 sons are your dh sounds bonkers

The problem with your anecdotal evidence is that those who refused the vaccine and died of covid aren't around to give us their side of that story.

Hundreds of thousands of people who didn't have the vaccine (because it didn't exist initially) died a horrible death of covid, or suffered the effects of long Covid for years afterwards or indeed permanently. Ask their relatives what they think about the vaccine.

You simply have to look at the death rates before and after the vaccine to see that it was effective. In the UK alone, over 2021, the age-adjusted risk of COVID-19 death was 96% lower for people who had had two doses compared to those who had no vaccination. Worldwide, the vaccine saved millions of people from death. It's as simple as that.

My boys have been fully vaccinated and don’t have autism.

There isn’t a link with autism and vaccines.

The original data claiming that the MMR causes autism was produced by a doctor called Andrew Wakefield.

A 2011 investigation by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that Wakefield had manipulated and falsified the medical records of the children in his study to support his claims.

UK's General Medical Council (GMC) struck Wakefield off the medical register for "serious professional misconduct," ending his ability to practice medicine in the UK.

First post nails.

I’m not sure if that comment was aimed at me because the previous PP has responded to me but just to clarify, I had the free flu vaccine through work. It hospitalised me and it took me 6 months to recover.

I had the flu in 2024 - I completely agree with you, people who walk around saying they have the flu, do not had the flu. I couldn’t move out of bed for 7 whole days and it was day 10 before I actually managed to get up without help. Still nowhere near as bad as my unfortunate reaction to the flu vaccine.

Im pleased the flu vaccines work for yhe majority but people need to understand that there’s a very small minority who do suffer severe reactions and cannot take the risk as in our case, the cure is worse than the disease.

OP there are vast populations who get vaccinated and are unvaccinated. There is absolutely no difference in autism rates among them. Given the numbers involved we can reliably and confidently say vaccines do not cause autism.

You will be rolling the dice with your child if you don't get them vaccinated. A lot of the diseases are making huge comebacks due to less people getting their kids vaccinated due to misinformation. There have been large measles outbreaks (resulting in death of unvaccinated kids) over the last few years.

There was a large meningitis outbreak in Kent just recently resulting in deaths. (Slightly different as the teens weren't vaccinated but your baby could be).

If you won't get them vaccinated, personally I would be terrified for the rest of their lives that I would be the cause of disability or death. I wouldn't put the baby into nursery or school.

The best person you could speak to about all this is your doctor.

My son had every vaccine on offer and is not autistic. Do not believe any of this bull*t. The diseases they are vaccinating against are serious. Children can die from some of them or be left with life-altering conditions. Vaccinate your children.

Are you still anti covid vaccination after five years of the widest testing that any vaccine has ever undergone? Have you noticed that we no longer have a covid pandemic? What do you attribute that to?

I don't think OP is coming back after being called "fucking stupid", a twat and a tiny foil hat wearing baby killer.

Usually not vaccinating is ill advised, but if we actually want more children to get vaccinated this is not going to work.

OP will mute the thread and just engage more and more with people, then communities, who "get it". All reasonable dialogue has now been cut off. And vaccines are the gateway to other fringe beliefs and conspiracy theories.

Let’s hope your child doesn’t have a chronic illness that leaves them immunocompromised then, cause you’d be up in arms about this subject if you did. Or failing that, your kid don’t end up with measles with all these eradicated diseases swiftly coming back, you’d be sorry then when it’s fighting for its life in hospital.

Selfish bastards.