 do vaccines cause autism? I want to say before continuing with this video that although I do not support the ideas of vaccinations causing autism I do support non-biased and reputable sources of information and studies. So some of you may be contemplating the ideas of vaccinations causing autism, maybe in a friend, maybe just as a general kind of in-depth research for yourself or maybe because your child has recently been diagnosed with autism. I find that anti-vaccinations because of autism is a very very offensive topic and it's very much backed up by a lot of the autistic community. In this video I will be talking about why I personally find anti-vaxxers motives very offensive and also within the autistic community being very offensive. Helping to get this information out and taken seriously I believe is a very positive step in order to raise the amount of acceptance and understanding of people with autism in the general media and in the general community. So what makes an anti-vaxxer? Parents who are selfish, angry, victimised and do not have a strong background in science may decide to look up different people's opinions, different controversial papers against anti-vaccinations in order to find a way of understanding what happened with my child and why is my child so utterly disabled by this horrible autism? As well as propagating the very biased and unstructured data that studies into anti-vaccinations present it also promotes a very negative mindset towards a child and which can have serious psychological and confidence issues on the child when they grow up. These anti-vaxxers also serve to propagate the idea that we as autistic people are disabled or it is a disease. When in fact if you taught someone who has autism and someone who's understood what it is to be autistic you will understand what it is about and how it isn't a disease. It isn't a negative thing but something to promote diversity in a community. There is a very known well-known psychological phenomenon where a person who has an opinion, so let's say the opinion is this vaccination has caused my son's autism. This autumn is a bad thing and I feel very upset that it's affecting my child. So they will try and find some information on the subject which is completely natural but there are a few select people who are very unbudging on their opinion. So they'll look for information. They come across a few studies of fluid, oh that's a little study, can't read that's too long. They find one, pick it up. Oh this shows that this certain molecule in anti-vaccination fluid has been associated with autism. When in fact these studies are very biased they are supported by companies with a very bad moral compass that don't support the autistic community at all. And so they'll go on and they'll put that in their bag and that'll add to their belief that autism is bad and that vaccinations cause autism. And they'll flip through some more and they'll find loads of them which are very reputable and good studies from good places that are very unbiased and they'll ignore all of those even though they will have very strong evidence to show that vaccinations don't cause autism and they they don't you know propagate autism in a child even through birth. The best analogy that I could think of is if you were going to a river to find white rocks so you had the assumption that all the rocks in the river were white so you went through, you picked up a few, you picked one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten of really big brown stones and you just took them to the side. As soon as you find a tiny little pebble of white pick it up, put it into your bag and therefore you go home and say hey look all the evidence I've found supporting us. Don't worry about all the the other evidence that is very positive and shows that vaccinations that aren't correlated with autism. Look at this in small selects, biased information and then you see the real picture, you see the real controversy that the us Americans or as British people are under because our government's trying to turn out everybody autistic because that's really probable isn't it because the government really wants everybody to be autistic. All these mindsets and these thought processes and these ignoring of certain pieces of information to affirm their beliefs about something is more or less showing to everybody and to themselves that they hate autism and even if you are an anti-vaxxer and you you say well hey I do hate autism, I think it's a disease, well I believe that by saying that you are in turn putting a lot of hate onto your child because autism is not a disease it's not catchable and autism is a part of them it's their brain. You wouldn't try to turn everybody into a guy called Melvin from the shop because his brain is you like his brain you want everybody's brain to be like that. It's oh no my child isn't exactly the same as me and does not work in the same way as me therefore I'm going to be very angry about it and I think it's a really bad thing because looking in the history we definitely don't have a history of you know racial discrimination and stuff like that and sex discrimination and sexuality discrimination obviously that's completely different from a person's unique brain structure obviously and yes I am being sarcastic I'm not pinning these anti-vaxxing things on a single person or on the parents in particular but what I am pinning on mostly is companies and organizations and who do you think runs these companies and organizations usually well when I've looked and I've looked at the owners of corporations they've usually been parents of someone who has an autistic child or or a lot older and they have a science background where when they were learning autism was considered to be a disability and something to be frowned upon and removed and these organizations spit out a lot of propaganda and a lot of negative ways of viewing autism in a very I know what I'm doing light and this is the answer and we need to cure this and we need to be bring awareness to it because we need to cure this horrible disease I mean just look at things like autism speaks you don't need to go very far to learn about which communities own organizations are unethical and they don't include anybody from the autistic community so we know that being an anti-vaxxer whether there's evidence for it or not there is a lot of evidence against it and viewing autism as a disease is showing a lot of hate for your child and it will psychologically affect them on a very deep level if you continue to treat them like there are disease but also I recognize some of the companies and organizations that have been involved in propagating this and this is really the reason why I make this video because I want to address that these people they don't even know they speak like their word is fully backed up and fully supported by evidence and they have no question about whether it's true or not they may know nothing about what they're talking about and they may just further be trying to propagate their idea their opinion of autism being bad and vaccinations causing autism putting those white pebble in the bag ignoring all the brown pebbles and propagating that into further parents future parents and really building up that kind of cyclical hate for autism that we really need to remove from the community in order for society to be more accepting of as bees of autistic people and generally improve our mental health and people's understanding of us we know that humans naturally tend to avoid negative emotions and dealing with things head on and in this case with autism the emotion is anger and the emotion is victimizing ourselves as a parent in order to get some support from people and let people know that we're angry because our child's like this and we're embarrassed that our child has autism because maybe or that they have a little bit of a tick during class and one of the other parents who are completely non-understanding of it go oh your kids are a bit weird and you can just say oh it's just because he's got this autistic disease or something it's not because of that's who he is because he's diseased and they just want to save their own ego if parents were only to accept that their child is different and that their child is unique in different ways in positive ways it may have a lot better impact on the child when they're growing up they work feel self-conscious about the way that they're built they'll feel better about doing things they'll have more acceptance towards other people have better positive outlooks and motivation towards things rather than you know someone in the class saying oh you're a bit weird you like this and they're just saying my mom said I have autism and I have a disease and that's just why I'm doing it trying to victimize themselves because that's what you're saying you're telling them they're wrong and they're built wrong and they're gonna lean on that a lot and that's gonna be quite a inbuilt you know belief about themselves which is very negative unhealthy values severely reduced self-confidence anxiety depression those are just some of the things that could be caused by this very negative outlook towards your child and it really needs to be stopped I usually don't fuel my videos with a lot of emotion it's usually very structured but it's something that really resonates with me quite deeply and when I see things like this anti-vaccine vaccinations on you know autism friendly groups and stuff it really grounds grounds my gears and it's the kind of negativity that we don't want in our community for those of you who have been reading into the science of it and maybe not fueled so much bad anger and you just interested in it talking about the science I have a big scientific background I've done a lot of anatomy work a lot of brains I've been to a very reputable university researching doing my own research into good papers that have a good standing within the scientific community and some of the things that are suggested by anti-vaxxers and anti-vaccination propaganda and studies and stuff are very contrasting with what I've learned and from good sources in reputable you know study of the brain and stuff one of the reasons is when people think that their child can develop autism at a certain age so they are not autistic and they get a vaccine vaccine and the chemical comes in and it turns them autistic now if there was ever going to be a drug that turned people autistic it would not affect someone physically as soon as they got it it would affect their children so the way that their children's made up because autism is developmental it's there's a physical difference in the connectivity between the brain if the actual anatomy if you were to cut someone's skull open if you were to do and like an MRI if you'd look at the image their brain it would be different it would work differently and the perceptions that we get would be worth differently because there are tons of neurons going from the brain all to different peripheries and stuff and they're very different in people of autism they can be more sensitive and suggesting that a molecule as a small molecule even strongest molecule like I don't know if you're taking cocaine on a regular basis and you have Marano and LSD and all of that very strong compounds that cause changes in the brain you would not be able to change someone's physical anatomy that much and by saying this I'm not saying that things like antidepressants and different diseases don't cause changes in the brain and the interactions between certain parts of the brain it's just that it won't wouldn't be able to replicate the differences between autistic people and neurotypical people so let's humor and say that this drug can cause autism from the standpoint that myself and a lot of the positive people in the autistic community and most of the autistic community in general and people in general who have you know talked to about it they don't think autism is a bad thing and don't think it's a disease however what is a disease is measles, mumps, rubella, MMR, MMR vaccines they are one of the one of them I think it was measles or rubella or something one of those three have such a high degree of infectious levels that 95% of population needs to be immunized in order for them not to be at outbreak because it's so infectious and these diseases kill people and they cause deformity in people injuries that last forever so looking at autism and it's not a bad thing why would you want to get rid of this needed protective immunity to really harmful diseases that may you know last for entire life like hepatitis or something just because you don't want to have a different brain structure to you and you're scared of how their brain works so what you don't understand and you don't want to be tolerant of it this is not a bad thing so why would you want to do that it doesn't it baffles me really if you were to say here you go Tom here's a non-autistic child and hey we've got a vaccination here you know there's there's been a lot of outbreaks of mumps and rubella because people haven't been vaccinating everyone's neurotypical they're not autistic but you know everyone's just been vaccinated and not been vaccinated and a dime of mumps and rubella and all those infectious diseases and they're getting severely disabled and you said oh there's a vaccine here it turns them autistic but you know it stops them from being killed would you be stupid to not take that up and not save their life because you don't want them to be autistic so what I encourage you to do if you're still thinking of how your child is being affected or diseased by autism just try these few things try accepting their autism try being positive about the things that autism have given them their intelligence their unique perspective their creativity their imagination their ways of coping with things that you know people usually push to the side and their intense ability to work on themselves and to be a good member of society there are loads of loads of positive reasons a person with autism may have loads of reasons loads of good things that the person may have and the only thing you have to do is change your mindset you don't have to justify it it's not going to help you're not going to be able to change anything if you if you don't have a science background if you don't have anything like that the only thing you're going to do is spark more hatred and less acceptance and more negative mindsets on issues that are very you know important for people in the autistic community you're making us feel bad you're making the world less tolerant and that's something that we really need to kind of get rid of we really need to educate people being positive accepting that's what we need so in conclusion from this very long video that's needed i won't be making these really long videos again for a long time unless i find something that's important enough to talk about but there are a few things you know we need to conclude on one stay away from research papers let the scientists let the reputable scientists do the work if they feel like a vaccination is causing autism they will change it they don't want to turn everybody autistic even though that wouldn't be a bad thing number two get rid of that mindset of autism is a disease autism is bad and stop trying to victimize yourself as a parent or as a person because you can't handle the social implications of your child having autism and three take time to talk to people who are autistic who are vassbergous who are older who are successful there are many people who are successful with autism or vassbergous and it's not a case of it being a negative thing if someone brings a child up in a negative mindset they're not going to achieve things but if you give them a positive mindset and you accept them they will grow and they will flourish and they will become beautiful human beings