re: Vaccine Autism Coorelation

Could be a myriad of factors including such things as what goes into our bodies (vaccines, food, plastic containers holding our food and water, chemicals in air or water, etc.) and the growing umbrella and better screening for autism.

Or, in conjunction with everything else above, maybe it could be that the average age of a woman when she has her first child has been increasing as is the rate of older women having their first child:






I believe the average age of first birth has recently reached 30 here in the USA.

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I understand that. I’m just not convinced that it explains what we’re seeing.

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Other than the part where it accounts for 98%+ of the differential rates of diagnosis, sure.

That last less than 2% though-- that's super suspicious.

We are done as a species if this is the level of thinking.

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Let’s say you have a child who is fully functioning but a tad socially awkward. What does diagnosing that child as “on the spectrum” do besides give them a crutch to be a victim their entire lives?

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Gives them a heads up on having to focus on skill development through childhood, would be a big one. Gives them a heads up on how they'll have to learn to navigate social interactions. Gives them essentially every possible advantage to turn the table tilted against them, either away from that weakness, or towards a strength.

Its pretty damned invalauble for a huge number of kids, even if you have half the little shits using it as a crutch.

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I just looked

It’s 11 vaccines from birth to 7 not counting Covid and flu

Then after that you have the HPV and Meningitis vaccines

So 13 not counting the seasonal vaccines

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I would assume that who ever came up with the 74 figure was including the 1 to 2 flu shots every year along with whatever the number of covid shots the government is currently recommended.

Of course, I see a huge difference in shots given to infants which provide immunization which have been successfully used for decades versus something like the flu shots which are generally the best guess at what strain will be going around that year. I'm not suggesting that people not get a flu shot if they want, but it's not like the MMR vaccine.

Best explanation I heard was regarding the pneumonia shot. The pneumonia shot is like getting protection from being hit by a Ford but won't stop a Chevy.

I'm not even going to get into the Covid shot.

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Let’s say you have a child who is fully functioning but a tad socially awkward. What does diagnosing that child as “on the spectrum” do besides give them a crutch to be a victim their entire lives?



Gives them a heads up on having to focus on skill development through childhood, would be a big one. Gives them a heads up on how they'll have to learn to navigate social interactions. Gives them essentially every possible advantage to turn the table tilted against them, either away from that weakness, or towards a strength.

Its pretty damned invalauble for a huge number of kids, even if you have half the little shits using it as a crutch.

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Don't forget that the school systems can get extra funding of they are delivering certain services to students with special needs.

Trust the science, you fools.

Each shot is not the vaccine sometimes. MMR for example is three vaccines in one shot.

Don't forget the 2-3 boosters of the vaccines.

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Unless I missed something, nothing in the original post implied that vaccines were the only potential source of autism.

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He’s trying to correlate the increase in vaccines to the increase in diagnoses. All while leaving out very important variables like increases in testing and environmental factors.