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In reply to the discussion: Massive study shows kids who receive MMR vaccine 7% less likely to develop autism [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)33. I didn't really think you did.
I am very aware that the environment starts not only pre-natally but a couple of generations back. I know studies have been done of babies who were born in 1944/45 in war-torn Europe, and I cannot recall what was concluded, but there were definite differences between them and babies born in better times, which persisted for however long the studies went on.
And yeah, there may have been something present prenatally that caused my son's autism but since I avoided the obvious things like smoking and drinking, I honestly think that he was simply born with a different brain wiring.
And I think that is probably true of most autistic people.
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Massive study shows kids who receive MMR vaccine 7% less likely to develop autism [View all]
deminks
Mar 2019
OP
Science and facts means nothing to the anti vaccination people so a study of 650,000 cases ...
Botany
Mar 2019
#1
The vaccines don't prevent autism, the vaccines show parents who probably take better care of kids.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2019
#41
No they don't know, but it is not "bad parenting." I would go with environmental contaminents...
Hekate
Mar 2019
#11
It was not the vaccine but the chemical that bonds all 3 vaccines given to a baby when its brain
kimbutgar
Mar 2019
#8
I have a 26 year old son with autism and I saw the day after he got the mmr he was feverish and
kimbutgar
Mar 2019
#13
You've been duped by a disgraced doctor who faked a study to try to get rich.
TwilightZone
Mar 2019
#32
Thank you. I also don't blame vaccines for my granddaughter's SIDS, but my grieving daughter does...
Hekate
Mar 2019
#14
So is the almighty Zuckerberg going to flood Facebook's mommy chat-rooms with this information?
Hekate
Mar 2019
#12
My understanding is that the largest study reviewed shows zero difference
PoindexterOglethorpe
Mar 2019
#18