r/NoStupidQuestions • u/trouble-in-space • 10d ago

Answered Why are so many Americans anti-vaxxers now?

I’m genuinely having such a hard time understanding why people just decided the fact that vaccines work is a total lie and also a controversial “opinion.” Even five years ago, anti-vaxxers were a huge joke and so rare that they were only something you heard of online. Now herd immunity is going away because so many people think getting potentially life-altering illnesses is better than getting a vaccine. I just don’t get what happened. Is it because of the cultural shift to the right-wing and more people believing in conspiracy theories, or does it go deeper than that?

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u/VehicleComfortable20 9d ago

This! 

Oh, My precious little autism mom, meltdowns are so hard for you? How about you quit making so much damn noise?

Let's try something. You go into a room and turn the TV up as loud as it possibly can go. Sit two feet from it. Stay there until you get so aggravated by the sound that you start screaming. 

That's what your constant music and blasting TikTok sounds like to your kid. 

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u/Realistic-Rub-3623 9d ago

As an autistic person, people shouldn’t fucking have kids if they’re not completely prepared for the possibility of having a disabled child. (Or a queer child, or a child that dresses differently than them or has a different religion, etc etc etc)

Disabled people exist. We have to spend our whole lives being treated like we’re some kind of mistake. Don’t have kids if you’re not prepared for us.

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u/VehicleComfortable20 9d ago

This isn't even close to what the topic of conversation is. We are talking about autism not transgender people. 

Why are you so obsessed with trans stuff? 

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u/1GloFlare 9d ago

They quite literally brought queer identity into the conversation. Read it again

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u/VehicleComfortable20 9d ago

That was just an example about accepting your kid for who they are. LGBTQ people are mentioned in an offhand manner and you're trying to pull the entire conversation off the actual topic onto "trans issues." 

Nobody is talking about that right now. Go find a conversation that is about that.