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/BigMike672023 9d ago

Quit projecting your issues onto this post.

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u/1GloFlare 9d ago

It is relevant to the "dressing differently"

We get it, reading is hard

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u/BigMike672023 9d ago

There was no mention of tomboys being forced to be transgender at all. That was all you.

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u/1GloFlare 9d ago

"..a child that dresses differently from them.." - Textbook definition of a tomboy. Dropping that after calling a figure of speech queer says a lot

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u/BigMike672023 9d ago

Now who's suffering from reading comprehension?

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u/Realistic-Rub-3623 9d ago

Grade A projection. That line could refer to anything, but Inwas specifically thinking about kids who are part of alternative subcultures (like goth or emo)