So apparently I'm worse than measles, mumps and rubella

[Bannanachair]

If you get the MMR vaccine, you'll be safe from those horrific diseases that kill, cripple and mutilate children, but you run the risk of ending up autistic like me!

I just want to point out that that's just absolute fucking bullshit. Not only does the MMR vaccine not actually cause autism among Danish people born in the 1990s, but the entire antivaxxer mindset revolves around the idea that it is somehow inherently worse to be anything at all like me than to die in childhood from preventable and deadly diseases. I am personally offended by that shit, because of course I am, because a growing number of Americans think that being like me is worse than being permanently disfigured in a tragic way in early childhood.

And now, for years, kids are dying because their parents are afraid that they'll have some similarities to people like me.

Oh also there's insane unemployment and overqualification rates in Germany and so I'm more likely to commit suicide, but I'm mostly pissed off at antivaxxers right now because their entire movement is absolutely fucking stupid.

[Tikobe]

Dec 13, 2018 10:58:14 GMT -4 Bannanachair said:

If you get the MMR vaccine, you'll be safe from those horrific diseases that kill, cripple and mutilate children, but you run the risk of ending up autistic like me!

I just want to point out that that's just absolute fucking bullshit. Not only does the MMR vaccine not actually cause autism among Danish people born in the 1990s, but the entire antivaxxer mindset revolves around the idea that it is somehow inherently worse to be anything at all like me than to die in childhood from preventable and deadly diseases. I am personally offended by that shit, because of course I am, because a growing number of Americans think that being like me is worse than being permanently disfigured in a tragic way in early childhood.

And now, for years, kids are dying because their parents are afraid that they'll have some similarities to people like me.

Oh also there's insane unemployment and overqualification rates in Germany and so I'm more likely to commit suicide, but I'm mostly pissed off at antivaxxers right now because their entire movement is absolutely fucking stupid.

Americans can just get fucking weird.

I've recently been watching videos of these guys called sovereign citizens, who preach that they are exempt from the law under Article 4 of the Articles of Confederation. I don't even think I need to point out what's wrong here. Actually, one dude quoted the Magna Carta so I guess there's a spectrum to those guys.

Actually, for anti-vaxxers, I believe that they did say something about that. But's it's fucked up. In short: "If they die it was because God willed it."

Furthermore, I don't quite understand how a vaccine can cause one to be placed on the spectrum. Autism isn't an infectious disease, you've never heard of an autism outbreak.