The rollout of autistic Julia is Sesame Street’s attempt to normalize vaccine injuries and depict those victimized by vaccines as happy, "amazing" children rather than admitting the truth that vaccines cause autism in some children and we should therefore make vaccines safer and less frequent to save those children from a lifetime of neurological damage.
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@Dr. Razark: The antivax cult sincerely believe that autism is the worst possible condition a child could ever have, akin to destroying your "real" child and replacing it with a doppelganger. I once read an interview where a father, having taken his child for an autism "cure", declared, "I'm finally going to meet my son". He literally believed that his autistic child was NOT his "son". How sad is that?
Also, this is Mike Adams, who believes every health-related conspiracy he's ever seen. He also lives in Guam to avoid charges of child molestation.
This bullshit always amuses me because I was diagnosed with autism around a year before I first had the doctor's needle pierce my arm. My very existence is a middle finger to the "vaccines cause autism" crowd!
@Man Called True
He also lives in Guam to avoid charges of child molestation.
I wonder if he's friends with one David J. Stewart?
We knew that our son wasn't a "conventional" child before he had any vaccinations.Natural news upsets me, as I have a biology degree and the woo that they push gets my hackles up every time. Oh, and my son isn't "neurologically damaged". He's a bright, funny, engaging 12 year old who likes Attack on Titan, Xbox, vinyl records and wants to go raving in Ibiza with his old dad when he's 18 :-)
A very dear person to me has autism. What worries me the most for him isn't his ability to learn to cope academically and to do self help, because he seems well in his way there. What worries me is that he will be harmed by all the assholes who take advantage of other people, particularly when they sense weakness. Assholes like Adams.
I hear he moved to Central America to avoid the authorities. I think the very best thing he could do for the entire planet would be to be eaten by a crocodile.
Not that I believe it for a damn second, but even IF vaccines caused autism, wouldn't it still be a good thing to portray a kid with autism positively? It doesn't make the kid herself any different of a person, whether her autism was caused by this, that, or the other thing.
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