My daughter plays with her kids.

I vaccinate my child. PERIOD. When she was in preschool, she got pneumonia and RSV and had to be hospitalized. I firmly believe she caught it from a boy in her class who was coughing like a lung would come up. He was allowed in school, however, my child was sent home TWICE for having BOOGERS. I’m also pretty damn sure that boy had not been vaccinated against anything.

My daughter was born with meconium aspiration and nearly died, so the second hospitalization for respiratory problems was frightening for me.

All because some kid was allowed in school with a hacking cough and mine couldn’t stay because of boogers.

My point, like yours, is that vaccinations are necessary. Now do I think vaxx and autism have a connection? Yes and no. I think the kids that are diagnosed with autism or any of the other myriad of behavioral/cognitive disorders already had the gene that causes it/them and somehow the vaccine triggers it. I also believe that most of these diseases are enhanced by environmental factors.

Look at all the shit in our food and water now that wasn’t there when we were growing up. None of that is good for anyone except the ones manufacturing/selling the products. They get a fat bank account and we get sick.

But, no, vaccines themselves DO NOT cause autism. And it’s like you said, there were probably a lot more kids 20 or 30 years ago with autism or ADD than we know but they were not diagnosed. No one knew what it was then. Those kids were considered “problem children”.

Sad, but true.