I was about to comment the same thing. I mean what a gross insult to people with autism.

I like to think of it more as thinking out loud, my thoughts just don’t feel “real” enough when they’re only in my head. Helps to work things out, sure, but I do it like all the time.

Except I didnt think that was dumb at all. /english major

No, because that is a delightful movie, not a dumb movie.

my grandma was a very progressive lady in most respects. she became a nurse and she and my grandfather both worked full time. they raised 5 kids AND had a small dairy farm. she fell victim to very little of the bigotry that one would expect in members of her generation, especially those from tiny farm towns in…

Honestly, I want more people on the spectrum to speak up and be like, “Fuck you, we’re awesome people, stop referring to autism like we’re deficient losers. AND GET VACCINATED.” If vaccinating my kid had a chance of making my kid deaf, I’d still do it, because a) yay, living kid and b) being deaf is also not the end…

Those of us that grew up on the internet still manage to screw up what is fake news and what is real.
It is tragic that this happened but I’m not going to put a ton of blame on someone who is figuring out how bus schedules work for not diving into the depths of the “vaccines cause autim” cluster F and I’m going to…

Cletus, I’m not assuming a damn thing. I am point blank telling you the circumstances here and you’re just being too much of a petulant child to reassess your original kneejerk dumbass opinion in light of the context you didn’t understand when you spouted off.

Now follow your own condescending advice, take your “respons…

You can’t sue someone for malpractice when they’ve already had their medical license taken, unfortunately. Even more unfortunate is the fact that there is a significant proportion of the population who are willing to be convinced that losing your medical license for being a fraud is some sort of badge of honor proving…

I thought Catholics were all about the trinity.

There may be no criminal recourse, but I suppose that a civil case could be different. I couldn’t find any prior cases, though apparently Wakefield lost a defamation lawsuit (which warmed the cockles of this autistic’s heart).

Unfortunately, that oversimplifies this particular situation. I work in vaccine advocacy in the Twin Cities, and the Somali population is at a real disadvantage when it comes to parsing out information regarding autism, which is “new” to them. Many of them tell us they had never seen autism before coming to this…

Ugh, that’s just terrible. I feel like people ignore the general improvement to people’s quality of life. There are plenty of people in other countries who would gladly vaccinate their kids to avoid having them DIE.

I understand that people have right to be angry and frustrated by antivaxxers, but are they evil or just ignorant?

He is quoted as saying the following back in 2015:

The study was later identified as fraudulent and was retracted by the medical journal that published it, and his medical license was revoked.

If you had given this even two seconds of thought before spouting off like a jackass you might have realized that recent immigrants from countries with extremely corrupt and dangerous governments might be SLIGHTLY more vulnerable to some snakeoil demagogue preaching that they shouldn’t trust this government either. If…

My father-in-law got polio just before the Salk vaccine was developed. He was on crutches pretty much all his life (and is in a wheelchair now ‘cause his rotator cuffs are just plain worn out the way hip joints can go on seniors).

This is disgusting. This community has already faced unimaginable hardship then to have these horrible people preying on them? The anti-vax community is revolting.