Let's cut to the chase. Raise your hand if you have, or would, or will, vaccinate your kids.

[HuckleB]

56. My nine-year-old is fully vaccinated.

And that's with a father who worked in the state developmental disabilities system in the late '90s into the early '00s, when Wakefield has many parents and advocates working to scare the crap out of people in regard to vaccines. My BS meter doesn't always work well, but it did in this case, though I had to keep my mouth shut in order to do my job. Still, I'm really pissed off at the fact that I still had fears when we took him in for each vaccination. I should not have had to face that kind of anxiety, nor should the millions of other parents who have had to do the same because of the fear mongering.

Yeah, I'm an anxious person. Always have been, and I'm working on it. Oddly enough, my son is also fairly socially anxious, though if you put him on stage you wouldn't know it, but I'm going with genes not vaccines on that reality.