Vaccines and Autism

This is a topic that is being talked about a lot, and it sure raises a lot of tempers and questions a lot of things. The theory, supported by anti vaxxers is that vaccines are the cause of the surge in autism cases all over the World. I do not know if there is a study that can point to the fact that autism started when vaccines started being used, particularly on children. I have never found one.

Starting before I actually tell my story, let me just state that I see no reason for vaccines being a plan to hurt humanity. Hurt it in what way? First of all if it is to decrease the World's population it has failed miserably. The World's population has more than doubled since the inception of vaccines. As for autism, what possible benefit is there for someone to create a whole segment of society that just finds it hard to get along with anyone? I really find it hard to believe that this is so.

Ok now the story. Even though I have never taken any tests to verify I suffer from autism my whole life is a testimony to this. I have always been different from other people, socially I am a misfit, I hate being in front of a bunch of people it makes me completely uncomfortable, the only times I was able to overcome this was when I was drunk. Well nobody likes to be in front of people so why do I think I am an autist. well, besides that, when I was a very small child I could sum big numbers and I did not even know numbers, I could read an English children's book and didn't even know the alphabet. Even worse I couldn't even speak English. Currently I really like being by myself and just think, talking is not a big deal with me.

Well, when I went to first grade I went to a Mennonite school, most of the kids where from the USA, luckily by then I could speak English rather well, even though my pronunciation sometimes was not good. Still I hated that school, in first grade I missed 31 days. My social problems became even more acute, I hated speaking in class and I sat as far back as I could hoping nobody would notice me. Second grade was not as bad, but still I wished I wasn't there. Now I had had the polio vaccine so maybe that is where my problems came from.

But the thing is, I had a classmate named Karl, he was in even worse shape than I, he hated talking to anyone and if anyone touched him he would cry. By the time I finished second grade he finished fourth. Now everything I have read about autism points straight at Karl, I am talking about the smart autism, because there is the other kind that brings little positive just a brain that cannot adjust. In any case, Karl was not autist because of the vaccine, he was a Mennonite, they don't believe in vaccines.

So in summary I really don't believe vaccines are the cause of autism, this problem has probably been around for ages. Now, I do not say that vaccines are not the cause of certain diseases but autism is not one of them.