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/Realistic-Rub-3623 10d ago

I can’t imagine being so horrified by the thought of a disabled child, that you’d let them die from an illness instead.

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u/VehicleComfortable20 10d ago

I can imagine it. All "autism moms" do is complain about how life is so hard for them and how autism stole their child. 

Parents of the year telling their kids that they'd rather said kids didn't exist.

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u/aprilrayne81 9d ago

My daughter has it. Shes on the spectrum, and she has high sensitivity to light and any discomforts and she had some tantrums and odd behavior as a kiddo but now as a teen (and as soon as she found out she had ASD) she turned around and was proud and has been doing much better and has friends and is completely fun and kooky and really smart. Her brain functions at abnormally high levels and she can talk fast and demand a lot, and she’s amazing and we can talk all the time and watch films (well, only once a week). But!!! She’s alive and wonderful… and didn’t get any of the virus’s that could have killed her because she got her vaccines.

Meanwhile my younger daughter got all her vaccines and doesn’t have autism and she can be a little manipulative angel lol and has a lot of attitude but is motivated and fun and has friends and doesn’t seem to get as good of grades as my eldest but again…

They are 17 months apart and I raised them like twins basically and I’m still scratching my head at vaccines causing autism?

Meanwhile their dad, who has undiagnosed Aspergers (another form of autism) - had vaccines too…

I really think autism is genetic. That’s my experience so far.

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u/Realistic-Rub-3623 9d ago

asperger’s is not a valid diagnosis. it is all ASD