The Independent: Italian court rules MMR vaccine did trigger autism

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117. Please stop calling the parents idiots!

Just because you have no experience with a child having an extreme reaction to vaccines does not mean those who who claim their child has had a very bad reaction are all idiots. I am not anti-vaccination but from my direct experience I can say that some children cannot handle them. My son got a very high fever both times after he had the MMR/DTP vaccines, in part because of an allergy to eggs (vaccines are made with eggs). His behavior changed dramatically after the first fever and he began showing signs of autism. He ended up in the ER after his second shot because his fever was extremely high and because his leg swelled to three times the normal girth at the injection site. He is now autistic. This was not something that occurred gradually. He had a sudden personality/temperament change immediately after that first shot, demonstrating severe emotional lability, inability to deal with transitions, head banging, sensory sensitivity, difficulty controlling behavior, etc.

Unless you have daily experience with autistic children as a parent, you have no basis for expressing an opinion on this matter.