According to a New Study, Nothing Can Change an Anti-Vaxxer’s Mind

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3. Not true. I used to be, if not an ANTI-vaxxer, I was a vaccine skeptic.

You have to understand the fear and bewilderment that seize hold of the mind of a parent whose child is severely autistic. You want a cure desperately, and when you see there is no cure, you want to find out what the cause is. And every other month some half-baked study or paper gets published that has some suggestion of what MIGHT have caused your child to stop speaking and interacting around age 2.

You'll grasp at anything.

So, yes, for a while I was very concerned about the MMR shot. I made the doctor order them as separate shots for our third child, having "heard" that lumping all three together was too much. I never thought that vaccines were bad or that people should not vaccinate their children, but I was concerned about the potency of some shots.

It took me a while, and some more reading and looking at evidence and...finally...some perspective and acceptance that it is what it is and our son's never going to speak and I'll probably never know why...and I finally came to accept that it wasn't the vaccines.