Lots of my friends are tweeting and facebooking their dismay at parents who are refusing to vaccinate their children.
I add my voice to theirs. It is unthinkable to me to have not had my children vaccinated even though it was right at the time when there were questions over the safety of doing so.
I did not want any of my children to either die from a preventable disease nor to cause harm to any other child through my negligence.
However, I have another layer to add to it and that is anger at the inherent ableism wrapped up in the idea that it would be better for your child to be dead than to be autistic.
Let me make this clear, there is NO LINK WHATSOEVER between autism and childhood vaccination. None. Not one iota.
But even if there was, if you think that autism is the worst thing that your child could have, worse even than mumps, measles or rubella then you need to have a word with yourself. Seriously.
Since my daughter person has had their Aspergers diagnosis I have been asked more than once if they had the MMR jab.
The answer is yes.
This has been greeted by sad looks and one idiot asking me if I felt responsible for them being mentally deficient.
The answer is no.
Firstly, they are not mentally deficient. Not in the slightest. Secondly, the MMR jab had nothing to do with their autism. Thirdly, fuck off you ignorant piece of shit and do some research.
So go vaccinate your kids and recognise that you are selfish, abusive and ableist if you don't.
I'll take autistic over that every day of the week.
UPDATE: Have spoken to someone since posting this that had VERY good reasons for not vaccinating her son and I totally respect her reason for not doing so.
I wish to make it very clear that I am talking about the selfish gits that won't do it because they don't believe in it. Or that don't care about the safety of their kids or the safety of others.
I add my voice to theirs. It is unthinkable to me to have not had my children vaccinated even though it was right at the time when there were questions over the safety of doing so.
I did not want any of my children to either die from a preventable disease nor to cause harm to any other child through my negligence.
However, I have another layer to add to it and that is anger at the inherent ableism wrapped up in the idea that it would be better for your child to be dead than to be autistic.
Let me make this clear, there is NO LINK WHATSOEVER between autism and childhood vaccination. None. Not one iota.
But even if there was, if you think that autism is the worst thing that your child could have, worse even than mumps, measles or rubella then you need to have a word with yourself. Seriously.
Since my daughter person has had their Aspergers diagnosis I have been asked more than once if they had the MMR jab.
The answer is yes.
This has been greeted by sad looks and one idiot asking me if I felt responsible for them being mentally deficient.
The answer is no.
Firstly, they are not mentally deficient. Not in the slightest. Secondly, the MMR jab had nothing to do with their autism. Thirdly, fuck off you ignorant piece of shit and do some research.
So go vaccinate your kids and recognise that you are selfish, abusive and ableist if you don't.
I'll take autistic over that every day of the week.
UPDATE: Have spoken to someone since posting this that had VERY good reasons for not vaccinating her son and I totally respect her reason for not doing so.
I wish to make it very clear that I am talking about the selfish gits that won't do it because they don't believe in it. Or that don't care about the safety of their kids or the safety of others.
