One of my friends had someone hijack her FB post to take it on an anti-vaxxer rant.
Which helped me walk away from the whole thing and go finish that fifteenth long afghan row of the day.
But while I was knitting, just amazed yet again that someone would be so afraid of autism that even if vaccines caused it, which they don’t, that they would be willing to hurt or kill my child or theirs or anybody on chemo or any child too young for their shots–to try not to have to parent a kid who saw the world differently? Huh?
And then the sudden thought. I know from a friend with a severely autistic son that statistically the people most likely to have an autistic child already have one–there is a clear genetic component.
But still, the question I might ask the next such person is this: If someone came up with a vaccine to protect against developing autism, would you give it to your child?